Golf: Eagle finale boosts Swede Noren's treble hopes (Reuters)

View photosMoreSweden's Alex Noren during the second round of Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Kingsbarns, Scotland. Action Images via Reuters / Lee SmithWATFORD, England (Reuters) - Alex Noren, showing the sort of supreme confidence befitting one of the hottest players in Europe, eagled the par-five 18th to provide a springboard for another potential title push at the British Masters on Thursday.

The Swede coaxed in a curling 45-foot putt on the final green to put the seal on a four-under 67 that left him one behind first-round leaders Richard Sterne of South Africa, Scot Marc Warren, Finn Mikko Ilonen and England's Tommy Fleetwood.

In the last three months Noren has won the Scottish…