English Open returns

The English Open will be back on the European Tour's schedule next year after an absence of seven years.

St Mellion back on the map after re-development

The English Open will be back on the European Tour's schedule next year after an absence of seven years. Last played at the Forest of Arden Golf Club in the midlands, the event will return to St Mellion in Cornwall, its original home. St Mellion last hosted a European Tour event in 1995 when Australia's Peter O'Mally won the Benson and Hedges International Open. Northern Ireland's Darren Clarke was the last winner of the English Open, when he captured the title for the third time in four years back in 2002. George O'Grady, the European Tour's chief executive, said: "St Mellion is a familiar name to our members and the English Open has a tradition of producing great champions - Seve Ballesteros won the first edition in 1979 just two weeks before he captured The Open Championship. "We look forward to Cornwall, Devon and the south-west region as a whole welcoming Tour competition back to the area and we congratulate Crown Golf on their re-development of the St Mellion International Resort, where we look forward to staging an English Open that will give golf fans top entertainment."