Justin Rose has resigned from the European Tour five weeks after being left out of the Ryder Cup team.

Asia’s first male winner of a major title, Korean’s Yang Yong-eun, will have the chance to take on Tiger Woods again at the HSBC Champions event – now part of the World Golf Championship series – in Shanghai on November 5-8.

Tiger Woods notched up win number 77 of his professional career even with a real mixed bag of a final round in Miami last night.

Tiger Woods, who could not quite make up a 15-shot deficit in the US PGA championship last week, was quickly on the leaderboard at the NEC world championship in Akron today.