Phil Mickelson was back on a PGA Tour leaderboard as last year's runner-up made a positive start to the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis.

The sounding of a siren to halt play due to poor light probably did Pádraig Harrington a favour on the opening day of the thunderstorm affected Turkish Airlines Open at Belek.

Nearly five years have passed since Pádraig Harrington captured his third major title.

Tiger Woods will play alongside Rory McIlroy and Masters champion Adam Scott in a group containing the world’s top three in next week’s US Open at Merion.

Ireland’s Pádraig Harrington fired a 69 to finish the opening day of the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis on one under.

Tiger Woods expects to face a confident Rory McIlroy when he bids to edge closer to Jack Nicklaus’s record and challenge for a fourth US Open and 15th Major title at the Olympic Club this week.

Pádraig Harrington returns to US Open venue that prompted him to totally transform his long game 14 years ago and take the first steps towards becoming a multiple major champion.

Graeme McDowell is not pushing the panic button after missing three cuts in a row and insists he feels nothing but good vibrations on his return to America’s west coast for the US Open.

Rory McIlroy shrugged off the final hole flop that cost him the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis and arrived at the US Open insisting he had high hopes of defending his title.

Rory McIlroy stopped the rot in Memphis, but his final warm-up for his US Open title defence this week still ended on a bitterly disappointing note.

Rory McIlroy made winning the US Open last year look pretty easy but the defending champion knows this year’s championship course will not be set up with a view to further record breaking.

There was a soggy end to Rory McIlroy’s bid for victory in Memphis but the US Open champion will begin his title defence on Thursday with confidence restored after ending a run of three missed cuts.

Rory McIlroy went to the turn in a three under par 32 today and led the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis again.

Rory McIlroy finished with three birdies in his last four holes and held a one-shot lead as the second round of the FedEx St Jude Classic drew to a close last night.

Tiger Woods, fist pump and all, is back with a vengeance after his thrilling fifth victory in the Jack Nicklaus Memorial tournament in Ohio.

Graeme McDowell is moving quickly on from his missed cut at Wentworth by looking forward to a golfing summer to savour.

If Rory McIlroy could bottle Pádraig Harrington’s, well, bottle, then his quest to be golf’s greatest could well be on the fast track.

Harrison Frazar claimed his maiden PGA Tour win and inflicted play-off heartbreak on Robert Karlsson for the second consecutive year at the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis.

Robert Karlsson got off to a fast start to extend his lead at the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis.

Sweden’s Robert Karlsson opened up a three-stroke lead after a blazing second-round at the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis.

Robert Karlsson opened up a handy clubhouse lead at the FedEx St Jude Classic after a blazing second-round in Memphis.

TIGER WOODS is not the only top golfer who has been battling a knee issue lately.

Tiger Woods is not the only top golfer who has been battling a knee issue lately.

Former world number one Vijay Singh has pulled out of the Open Championship qualifying event at Sunningdale on Monday.

PÁDRAIG Harrington described how “absolutely gutted” he was to be missing this week’s BMW PGA Championship through injury last night but still on course to take his place in next month’s US Open.

Tim Herron and Tom Pernice Jr both fired two-under-par 68s to share the lead after three rounds of the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis.

Defending champion David Toms carded his best round of the year – an eight-under-par 63 – to take a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis.