GOLF:

Eamonn Darcy ended a 50-year professional golfing career with a flourish, firing a fiveunder-par 67 in the final round of the Costa Blanca Benidorm Senior Golf Masters on the European Seniors Staysure Tour. The Wicklow man finished in midfield in his final event.

It will be team competitions for which the 66-year-old will be best remembered. He won the Ryder Cup in 1987 and was captain of Ireland’s 1988 Dunhill Cup winners.