Rory McIlroy might be a former world No 1 but he refuses to come to terms with the scrutiny into his private life and business dealings that comes with his vaunted position in the game.

Graeme McDowell loves nothing better than to close out a long year with a win, and there’s no better place for him to do that than Sherwood Country Club and the World Challenge.

Sean Connery has settled a lawsuit with a golf club for an undisclosed sum.

BARRING a late disaster, Padraig Harrington was on course to land a $1m payday as he maintained a four shot lead over Tiger Woods in the Target World Challenge at Thousand Oaks in California.

THERE are still one or two lucrative season ending tournaments to be decided but the world rankings at the end of 2002 have been decided.