THE certainty that there will be a fierce battle for places in the European Ryder Cup this year is good news for the ‘3’ Irish Open Championship at Killarney over the August Bank Holiday, less than a month before Colin Montgomerie’s team to face the USA at Celtic Manor is finalised.

Tiger Woods will tomorrow speak publicly for the first time since his bizarre car accident, beginning what his agent called “the process of making amends” for the sex scandal that sent him into hiding for three months.

HOWEVER much Ross Fisher enjoyed his Volvo World Match Play win, it was matched by Sweden’s Peter Hanson.

Padraig Harrington, Colin Montgomerie and Sergio Garcia posted emphatic victories as the European contingent shone in the first round at the Accenture Match Play Championship today.

Luke Donald aims to improve on previous visits to the Riviera Country Club when he makes his PGA Tour debut this week at the Northern Trust Open.

Colin Montgomerie is confident he can make a return to the world’s top 10 as the winner of eight European Tour Order of Merits looks to add the Johnnie Walker Classic to his burgeoning collection at the Blue Canyon Country Club this week.

Sweden's Henrik Stenson held his nerve down the stretch to win the final at the Accenture Match Play Championship tonight.

The British challenge at the Accenture Match Play Championship petered out today when Paul Casey and Justin Rose were eliminated.

Paul Casey and Justin Rose were in deep trouble during the quarter-finals at the Accenture Match Play Championship today.

Twelve months on from their terrific last round duel Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson looked on collision course again today when they returned to the Ford Championship at Doral in Florida.

GEOFF OGILVY watched his 25-foot putt take one extra turn and tumble into the cup at the fourteenth for an unlikely par and a commanding lead in the Match Play Championship.

TWO weeks, two wins for Phil Mickelson. And these aren’t ordinary victories.

Tiger Woods has been saying that he’s “close” to firing on all cylinders. Perhaps this time he really is.

Tiger Woods shot a five under par 65 to be tied for the lead after the third round at the Tour Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.

ERNIE ELS, bidding to take the world number one spot from Tiger Woods, is to curtail his travelling this year.

Greg Norman has urged the world's leading players to promote the game better world wide.