Robert Karlsson was today carrying on from where he left off last week to remind Paul Casey and David Howell the fight to win the Order of Merit is far from a two-way battle.

IAN POULTER is back in the world’s top 30 after his joint second place behind Tiger Woods in the American Express World Championship at The Grove.

Jim Furyk is back up to second ahead of Phil Mickelson in the world’s top 30 after a good showing in the American Express World Championship at The Grove.

Two more majors. Two more world championships. Nine more wins. Ten million more dollars. Six strokeplay victories in a row.

He could not quite make it four eagles out of four on the 18th and because of two rain delays it took him 7 1/2 hours to get there, but Tiger Woods had no trouble achieving what he came to do at The Grove near Watford today.

Tiger Woods won an incredible sixth successive strokeplay tournament today when he took the American Express World Championship at The Grove near Watford by a massive eight shots.

Tiger Woods missed an eagle chance of only 31 inches but remained in total control of the American Express World Championship when the final round began at The Grove near Watford today.

Tiger Woods made eagle at the 18th hole for the third consecutive day to move further clear with a round to go in the American Express World Championship at The Grove.

Tiger Woods lost some of his magic today and allowed Ryder Cup colleague Stewart Cink and England's David Howell to cut his lead from five shots to two in the American Express World Championship at The Grove near Watford.

Tiger Woods missed putts of seven and six feet on the opening two greens and had his lead cut to "only" four when the American Express World Championship resumed at The Grove near Watford today.

Paul Casey’s Ryder Cup hangover was in evidence again today as he finished his third round in the American Express World Championship long before runaway leader Tiger Woods has even begun his.

Tiger Woods, described by Padraig Harrington as “relentless“, left the rest trailing in his wake with another sublime performance in the American Express World Championship at The Grove near Watford.

Jim Furyk described himself as miserable and homesick on Wednesday, but today there was something to cheer him up – he and Ireland’s Padraig Harrington joined Tiger Woods in the lead in the American Express World Championship at The Grove near Watford.

American Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman pulled out of the American Express World Championship before the start at The Grove near Watford today in order to attend the funeral of golf legend Byron Nelson.

Ryder Cup star Jim Furyk today spoke about how he bit his tongue rather than strangle an American writer who asked him on Sunday night if their defeat to Europe really mattered to him.

Tiger Woods and a tearful Jim Furyk have joined the long list of tributes to Byron Nelson following the death of the American legend yesterday at the age of 94.

The new world rankings made happy reading for Paul Casey today – but not so Ryder Cup team-mate Lee Westwood.

Tiger Woods’ three-week stay in Europe, with its centrepiece the Ryder Cup at the K Club near Dublin, will boost the golf economy by an estimated €250m, according to a new report.

A truly dazzling closing 63 gave Tiger Woods an amazing fifth successive victory today.

Within hours of winning nearly €616,800 at the American Express world championship last October, John Daly lost double that gambling in Las Vegas.

England’s David Griffiths stormed into the lead at the Spanish Open today - back at the club where he finished third in last November’s European Tour qualifying school.

Tiger Woods has confirmed he is to return to the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth this September for the first time since 1998.

SEVEN months ago Henrik Stenson had never played a golf tournament in America. Now he gets called in to speak to the media before he has even hit a shot.

Seven months ago Henrik Stenson had never played a golf tournament in America. Now he gets called in to speak to the media before he has even hit a shot.

Sergio Garcia this week has the best chance of his career to do something he has never done before – make a successful defence of a title.

It is crunch time on the European Tour this week – not to see who wins it, but to determine who stays on it.

THE €10 million or so that it cost to bring the Ryder Cup to Ireland is regarded as a “bargain” in many quarters and it undoubtedly is.

Just a week after England’s John Bickerton won his first European Tour title at the 287th attempt, Frenchman Raphael Jacquelin is poised to make it 238th time lucky.

THREE great golfers dominated the American Express World Championship that ended in San Francisco on Sunday night.

COLIN MONTGOMERIE revealed only last week how he feared missing out on an eighth Ryder Cup cap.

THESE are hectic times for Europe’s top golfers, many of whom have contested the HSBC World Match Play Championship, the Seve Trophy and the Dunhill Links in successive weeks.

“THE most important win of my career.” That was Colin Montgomerie’s verdict at St Andrews last night after he had captured the Dunhill Links Championship in a dramatic finish against Englishman Kenneth Ferrie.

His wife’s continuing battle with cancer has led to Darren Clarke pulling out of the next two US Tour events – the American Express world championship in San Francisco starting on Thursday and the Las Vegas Invitational.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON has declined to accept a penny of the €240,000 he picked up for winning the JP McManus pro-am at Adare Manor on Tuesday.

Charlie Mulqueen concludes that the massive investment pumped into The Heritage at Killenard, Co Laois, will prove worthwhile.

Colin Montgomerie may have been the match-winning hero of Europe’s Ryder Cup team last month but he was unable to qualify for the two big events which followed.

Ernie Els has another €1.4m and a World Match Play record all to himself. But he wants more.

Their exploits in the Ryder Cup ensured 2004 will always be remembered as a great year for Padraig Harrington, Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley.

Ernie Els had his lead cut to two by Thomas Bjorn in the American Express world championship at Mount Juliet in Co Kilkenny today.

Ernie Els easily saw off the challenge of one European Ryder Cup hero today - but now faces an attack from three of them in the final round of the American Express world championship.

A bad weather forecast has officials re-thinking the schedule for the final round of the American Express world championship at Mount Juliet in Co Kilkenny tomorrow.

PADRAIG Harrington is the only realistic hope of an Irish victory in the American Express World Championship after the conclusion of yesterday’s second round in wretched conditions at Mount Juliet.

ERNIE ELS is not the kind of golfer who scorns a chance and, when the putts rattled in from at yesterday's second round in the American Express World Championship at Mount Juliet, he kept up the pressure relentlessly.