Tiger Woods is making his comeback at The Masters between April 8-11, the golfer has confirmed.

THE rise and rise of Rory McIlroy this year has coincided with the fall and fall of Pádraig Harrington – but the 20-year-old does not expect his fellow Irishman’s slide to continue for much longer.

Colin Montgomerie tees off at 8.20am at Walton Heath tomorrow to try to secure a place in next month’s United States Open.

New Orleans was largely spared the wrath of Hurricane Gustav, but the BMW Championship will not be so lucky.

Between them, European Tour rookies Robert Dinwiddie and Ross McGowan have made no fewer than 17 attempts to get into the Open and not succeeded once.

Darren Clarke has said the Irish Open course was "ridiculously difficult" to play yesterday afternoon, after a round of 72.

Angel Cabrera has won the European Tour Shot of the Year award for his spectacular nine-iron approach to the 15th hole in his winning of the United States Open in June.

Colin Montgomerie may not be able to stop the clock ticking – he was 44 on Saturday – but what he can do is stop his world ranking falling.

Colin Montgomerie will have Paul Casey’s former caddie Craig Connolly working alongside him at this week’s French Open in Paris.

Swede Niclas Fasth tonight praised Bernhard Langer for having “the stuff of champions” – after stopping the 49-year-old German from achieving perhaps the most remarkable victory of his amazing career.

Angel Cabrera, Argentina’s first major champion for 40 years, is up from 41st to 17th in the new world rankings.

Missing a six-foot putt and losing just over £150,000 can never be nice.

Rod Pampling has won Arnold Palmer's tournament and now, after rallying at the Ohio Memorial tournament, he is on the verge of winning Jack Nicklaus'.

Darren Clarke will be at Walton Heath on Monday week doing something he has not had to do since 1995 – taking part in a qualifying event for a major.

Tiger Woods believes the Players Championship at Sawgrass will be wide open when the prestigious event gets underway on Thursday.

The perils of Augusta were there for all to see as bogeys, double bogeys and even a triple bogey littered the start of the Masters today.

Phil Mickelson spoke today about how much his dismal performance at last September’s Ryder Cup hurt him

Golf’s newest major champion thought he was being smart practising for this week’s British Open in the cold and wind of Australia.

Colin Montgomerie walked onto the last green sharing the lead today and walked off it trailing.

Winning the Johnnie Walker Championship tomorrow will not, of course, make up for not winning the United States Open last Sunday.

England’s Simon Khan took the lead in the Nissan Irish Open at Carton House today – and then was given a whopping £8,000 (€11,600) fine for slow play.

Michelle Wie will try to move a step closer to becoming the first woman to qualify for the United States Open today.

Michelle Wie will try to move a step closer tomorrow to becoming the first woman to qualify for the United States Open.

Michelle Wie has entered for the United States Open at Pinehurst in June - and officials at the United States Golf Association are studying history books to see if she is the first female ever to try to qualify.

Michelle Wie has entered for the United States Open at Pinehurst in June – and officials at the United States Golf Association are studying history books to see if she is the first female ever to try to qualify.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON was left fretting last night that a thumb injury suffered when he smashed it into a tree trunk could wreck his chances of a £1m jackpot this weekend.

Lee Westwood pulled off a notable double today to reach the semi-finals of the HSBC World Match Play championship at Wentworth.

This could well have been a great year for Ernie Els. A really special year.

Ernie Els finally looks to be over the massive disappointment of this year’s major championships.

Nick Faldo charged into contention for the United States PGA championship amid the towering sand dunes of Whistling Straits today – and then gave himself a mountain to climb again.

What had threatened to be the worst major season of Nick Faldo’s long career took on a different complexion at Whistling Straits today.

With finishes of first, second and third in the three majors, Phil Mickelson can already put 2004 down as a great year in his career.

One year on from the shock victory by Ben Curtis at Sandwich, another little-known American leads the British Open championship with 18 holes to go.

For very different reasons Retief Goosen and Jesper Parnevik have both pulled out of this week’s Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond.

Lee Westwood has his sights on a third European Open title in six years at the K Club near Dublin this weekend.

Justin Rose looked to have made a good decision the way he started the Smurfit European Open today.

Phillip Price, one of Europe’s Ryder Cup heroes two years ago, admits he does not have a clue how he is doing in the current race for places.

Surrounded by the noise of a New York crowd and amid an almighty row about a course bordering on unplayable, quiet man Retief Goosen won himself a second United States Open title last night.

From play-off to way off; it was all a bit of a comedown for Padraig Harrington at the United States Open this week.

The answer Tiger Woods most wanted to give to former coach Butch Harmon’s latest criticism of his swing was, of course, to win the United States Open this weekend.

The chairman of the United States Open championship committee has admitted a mistake was made on the hole which Ernie Els described as “ridiculous” and “unplayable”.

Retief Goosen produced one of only three sub-par scores on a brutal day to move into the lead at the United States Open.

Two months after winning his first major at the Masters – after 13 years of trying and 17 top-10 finishes – Phil Mickelson topped the leaderboard in the United States Open today.

Two months after winning his first major at the Masters – after 13 years of trying and 17 top-10 finishes – Phil Mickelson climbed to the top of the leaderboard at the United States Open today.