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MARC Leishman looked like a hiker on the 13th hole at New South Wales Golf Club's La Perouse course yesterday.

There was only one winner at the NSW Golf Club on Tuesday and it was the brutal southerly wind that humbled even the most expert players as they tried to prepare for the Australian Open, starting on Thursday.

Tiger Woods cruised around Cog Hill in his familiar red shirt. Photograph by: SCOTT HALLERAN, GETTY IMAGES, Sports Ticker Tiger Woods left the drama to everyone else at Cog Hill.

MARC Leishman never forgets where he came from. The professional golfer will get comfortable on the couch tomorrow night at the place where his career began.

Is Tiger Woods on the prowl? Follow the JBWere Masters at Kingston Heath in Melbourne with our interactive coverage of the opening round.

MARC Leishman admitted he found it difficult to read the Kingston Heath greens at the Australian Masters, which wrapped up yesterday.

MORE than half of the money being held by TAB Sportsbet last night on the Australian Masters had come for Tiger Woods, as interest in the four-day tournament spiked.

MARC Leishman hopes a good night's sleep will have him primed for today's second round of the Australian Masters after an opening day which he described as frustrating.

Warrnambool golfer Marc Leishman is the early leader on the opening day of the Australian Masters at Kingston Heath.

THE bookies have Tiger Woods at $2.60 to win this week's JBWere Masters in Melbourne, but the world No.

Photo: Getty Images Tiger Woods was a phenomenon even before he turned professional in 1996 and this year became the first $1 billion athlete.

GOLF Australia has cast its net far and wide for ''a player of similar stature'' to replace Greg Norman in the $1.5 million Australian Open at the NSW Golf Club, but it is almost mission impossible with the majority of golf's elite otherwise occupied in the first week of December.

LOCAL golfer Graham Rentsch has been selected in the Victorian Golf Association's country team after a solid performance for Hamilton at Melbourne Country Week.

MARC Leishman's stunning debut season on the US PGA Tour is reflected in the latest world golf rankings.

Tiger power has sold out the Australian Masters. The final tickets for the November 12-15 tournament - which has announced JBWere as its naming-rights sponsor - have been snapped up, prompting an extraordinary new sales pitch at Kingston Heath.

With the FedExCup trophy firmly in Tiger's possession the focus now becomes who will be eligible to compete and possibly upstage him next year on the PGA TOUR.

STRICTLY speaking, Marc Leishman is not the overnight sensation he has been tagged as.

The third annual Turning Stone Resort Championship has attracted its strongest-ever field.

ATLANTAHeath Slocum was in danger of losing his PGA Tour card a month ago. Now he has a chance to win $10 million from the FedEx Cup if he were to win the Tour Championship.

Technically, the The Turning Stone Resort Championship as the start of the PGA Tour's "Fall Series". But the previous two editions of this event have betrayed the title.