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Peter McEvoy was part of a special Georgian afternoon at Peachtree in 1989 when Great Britain and Ireland won the Walker Cup on American soil for the first time and at Ocean Forest, as captain rather than a player, he was part of another.

At St Andrews, it's tournament over. Give the Jug to Tiger Woods and let us concentrate on who will come second after the world No 1's six-under-par 66 yesterday sent him into the early lead of the 134th Open Championship.

Submitted by Garry Smits on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 14:47. Prior to the 2009 golf season beginning, the European PGA Tour's "Race to Dubai" was being billed as the richest dash for cash in golf, and proponents were hinting none too subtly that it would compete and even out-do the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup points race.

Putting the 'W' back in WGC The particulars of this week's HSBC Champions event in China are odd, to be sure, and we're not talking about the foibles of the host country.

Rain has plagued Mississippi's PGA Tour event in many of the previous 42 years, but it's now threatening to cancel it for the first time.

Former Masters champion Trevor Immelman has had surgery on his left wrist and expects to return to the PGA Tour next year at full strength.

The new rule restricting the volume and edge sharpness of grooves has been a big topic of conversation with players on the PGA and European Tours over the last few months.

THERE has been the odd notable British victory on the PGA Tour in recent times - Luke Donald at the Honda Classic in 2006 and Paul Casey at this year's Houston Open, for instance - but none odder than Martin Laird's triumph in Las Vegas on Sunday night.

The Madrid Masters, the first of three consecutive events in southern Europe, is the next event on the European Tour.

That's what I wanted to know: What kind of fields will qualify for the men's and women's Olympic golf tournaments at the 2016 Summer Games? So I applied the proposed format and selection criteria and came up with sample fields - the fields that would exist if today was the deadline for naming them.

AN incredible six birdies in seven holes on the Old Course on Monday saw Simon Dyson win the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in style.

Having missed one big opportunity to win again at St. Andrews on Monday, Luke Donald tries again at the Madrid Masters starting Thursday.

World No. 1 Lorena Ochoa of Mexico gets doused in soda by friends after winning the Navistar LPGA Classic at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Capitol Hill in Prattville, Alabama, on Sunday.

The highlight of the Dunhill Links Championship was of course Simon Dyson's finishing 66 to hold off what our friends on American TV would probably call a "stellar chasing pack" and win the tournament.

Luke Donald was almost perfect with his putter on the way to an 8-under 64 at Kingsbarns on Sunday that gave him a one-stroke lead over Rory McIlroy and Simon Dyson in the weather-delayed third round of the Dunhill Links Championship.

Luke Donald gave himself the chance to end three and a half years without a win by matching the lowest round of his European Tour career in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship today.

Sands of time: Nick Faldo had an exemplary record at St Andrews but in recent years Englishmen have found the home of golf anything but a happy hunting ground Photo: PA Here is a quiz question for you.

If you are going to bring some of the best college golf teams in the country to the Coachella Valley, shouldn't those golfers be tested against one of the best and toughest courses in the desert? That is at least part of the thinking behind a big change in the Prestige at La Quinta, the college tournament celebrating its 10th anniversary in the ...

Tiger Woods played so much golf during the FedEx Cup playoffs that he is laying off cardio work this week with hopes of putting on some weight he lost over the last month.

IT IS PERHAPS professional golf's greatest myth that the various tours represent completely level playing fields, each member starting out with exactly the same chance of success at the start of each season.