Rory McIlroy’s break-up with fiancee Caroline Wozniacki is just the latest incident in a long line to threaten the Irishman’s golf game.

It may have come a week too late for his PGA Championship defence hopes but Rory McIlroy is more than confident he has turned a corner in time to rescue what has been a substandard season.

Tiger Woods can’t wait to get to the PGA Championship. Woods grabbed a big lead with a second-round 61 and then closed out the field with a safe and smart even-par 70 on Sunday to roll to a seven-shot victory at the Bridgestone Invitational.

I definitely feel like now I can go out and have more control of my golf ball, which is a good thing, while my short game is pretty good so I have brought a few positives here to the PGA

Tiger Woods heads to this week’s PGA Championship with a one win in 24 record on Pete Dye designed golf courses.

Pádraig Harrington has his last chance of making the European Ryder Cup team when he travels to Kiawah Island this week in search of a second US PGA Championship.

Rory McIlroy is heading to this week’s PGA Championship with the addition of some much needed ‘sparkle’ to his game following a good finish in the WGC–Bridgestone Invitational.

The top three players in the world have been paired together in the opening round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship in Miami on Thursday.

IF Darren Clarke’s British Open victory at Sandwich proved anything it was that the adage about horses for courses still holds firm when it comes to golf’s Major championships.

CORK’S Phoenix Street, and there are back streets like it in every town and city in the world, is unlikely to feature in any architect’s primer, at least in any positive way.

UNDER normal circumstances Paul Casey would not be paying close attention to what is happening at the Czech Open.

AFTER a woeful performance from Tiger Woods in Ohio at the weekend, United States Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin may well have to review his long-stated position that the world number one is an integral part of his planning for this year’s title defence against Europe.

THE final leaderboard at the 3 Irish Open had a significant impact on the shape of Europe’s Ryder Cup team with the showdown against the United States at Celtic Manor now just eight weeks away.

Paul McGinley and Darren Clarke, two of Europe’s three vice-captains for the Ryder Cup, turned their attentions back to playing in Killarney today – with great results.

IRISH Open hero Shane Lowry will not compete in the €4.5mBMW PGA Championship starting at Wentworth on Thursday – but he will be a professional golfer by the end of the week.

With Lee Westwood pulling out because of tonsilitis and Darren Clarke among a number of players taking a rest after the effort they put into their Ryder Cup bids, the field at this week’s Omega European Masters in Switzerland has been seriously weakened.

Darren Clarke gave a huge boost to his hopes of a Ryder Cup wild card by charging into a share of the halfway lead at the KLM Open in Holland on Friday.

Darren Clarke’s hopes of extending a run in The Open going back to 1991 faded further today with a four-over-par 74 in the opening round of the 36-hole European qualifier at Sunningdale.

Sergio Garcia hopes to show this week that he is over what happened in the British Open at Carnoustie.

Tiger Woods shot his rivals down in flames at Firestone in Akron today – and taught South African Rory Sabbatini a lesson he perhaps should have learnt three months ago.

Rory Sabbatini carded a second consecutive 67 to take a two-shot lead into the weekend at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio.

Although British Open champion Padraig Harrington admits he is currently nowhere near the level that saw him raise the Claret Jug at Carnoustie, he concedes the WGC Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio has provided him with excellent preparation for next week’s US PGA Championship.

Lee Westwood will play in this week’s Barclays Singapore Open after recovering from suspected tonsillitis.

Tiger Woods and Paul McGinley were involved in chaotic scenes in Akron today at the end of their second rounds in the Bridgestone world championship today.

Last month it was Sergio Garcia at Hoylake. Last Sunday it was Luke Donald in Chicago. Now it is Paul McGinley in Akron.

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are joining the rest of the American Ryder Cup team on their two-day visit to the K Club next Monday and Tuesday.

Adam Scott, joint third in the US PGA championship in Chicago on Sunday, grabbed an astonishing nine birdies in his last 12 holes, before signing for a seven-under-par 63 at the Bridgestone world championship in Akron today.

Luke Donald could not manage a single birdie playing with Tiger Woods on Sunday, but he began the Bridgestone world championship with three of them in Akron today.

Tiger Woods left Luke Donald and the rest trailing in his wake as he closed in on another piece of history in Chicago today.

Just as Luke Donald suffered a succession of early blows in his duel with Tiger Woods today, a concerned David Howell revealed he had come close to pulling out of the United States PGA championship in Chicago.

As if having his clubs lost by British Airways was not enough, England’s Kenneth Ferrie has suffered a recurrence of back trouble and is not yet a certain starter at the United States PGA championship in Chicago.