Robert Allenby News

LEE WESTWOOD made the most of a blowout by Padraig Harrington to take a two-shot lead from a group of players that included the Irishman and Australia's Robert Allenby at the halfway stage of the $A8.16 million Dubai World Championship on Friday.

Retired NBA player Jayson Williams agreed to a plea deal that could send him to prison for up to three years for accidentally shooting a driver at his New Jersey estate in 2002, a person with knowledge of the case said yesterday.

Ross Fisher failed to make the move he was looking for when the Dubai World Championship resumed today.

Robert Allenby shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday for a one-shot lead after the first round of the Dubai World Championship.

Tiger Woodsa s first visit to Australia in 11 years may leave a golf legacy lasting decades.

Paul Casey is out of next week's Dubai World Championship, the event which could have seen him crowned as the European Tour's number one this season.

Members of Where's Robbie - the unofficial Robert Allenby Cheer-Up Squad. Photo: Paul Rovere Peter Hanlon at the Master's November 13, 2009 SPORTS FANS often wear their hearts on their sleeves, but few do so as boldly as the group of six Perth boys who turned up at Kingston Heath yesterday.

The AP reports : Allenby has played the last three weeks on the European Tour Spain, Singapore and Shanghai and needed a week off before the Dubai World Championship.

THIS time next week, it definitely won't be Spain and, fingers crossed, it won't rain either.

Korea's Han Chang-won closed with a two- under 70 Sunday to win the inaugural Asian Amateur Championship.

Ross Fisher has confirmed an already outstanding European Tour season with an impressive victory at the Volvo World Match Play Championship, winning his 36 hole final against American Anthony Kim by a 4&3 margin.

Robert Allenby insists his decision to pull out of the JBWere Masters is purely because of an overcrowded schedule and has nothing to do with his threat to boycott home tournaments.

Australian Masters champion Rod Pampling hopes that Tiger Woods' appearance in Melbourne next week leads to a long-term revival of the Australian tournament golf scene.

Ross Fisher won the 36-hole World Match Play Championship final on Sunday by beating Anthony Kim 4 and 3. Fisher eagled the 22nd hole and birdie the next to put him 3-up at the Finca Cortesin golf course.

Ross Fisher rallied from a three-hole deficit to draw even with Masters champion Angel Cabrera halfway through the World Match Play Championship semifinals on Saturday, while Anthony Kim and Robert Allenby were also all-square after 18 holes.

We all know about the hullabaloo following the Presidents Cup match between crybaby Robert Allenby and purported 20-something drunkard Anthony Kim.

Kim sets up semi-final match with Allenby Colombia's Camilo Villegas lines up a putt on the 13th green during his World Match Play Golf Championship tournament against Jeev Milkha of India on Friday.

IT'S right on two weeks today that Melbourne will be in golf mode as it hasn't been in years with the arrival on our shores of Tiger Woods for the Australian Masters at Kingston Heath from Thursday, November 12.

RICHIE Myler touched down twice as England came from behind to beat France 34-12 in an unconvincing start to rugby league's Four Nations tournament.

Swedish golfer Michael Jonzon won the Castello Masters on Sunday, his first European Tour title in 12 years.