The withdrawal of American Brett Wetterich has prevented a first round clash between Colin Montgomerie and Justin Rose at the Accenture World Match Play Championship in Arizona next week.

Open champion Padraig Harrington is in line for a first round clash with Swede Peter Hanson at the Accenture World Match Play Championship in Arizona next week.

The complete line-up of players for golf’s World Cup in China on November 22-25 has been announced.

With most of the top contenders struggling down the stretch, Brett Wetterich grabbed a one-shot lead after the third round of the Deutsche Bank Championship on Sunday.

Finishing in the top 12 of all four majors this year has given Britain’s Justin Rose the opportunity to return to the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth in October.

Tiger Woods held a three-shot lead as he went for his 13th career major championship victory – but that advantage is even larger when you consider the mindset of those chasing him in the US PGA Championship.

Graeme Storm stole Tiger Woods and John Daly’s thunder in the first round of the US PGA Championship.

Lee Westwood was tied for the lead in the first round of the PGA Championship - but that was not nearly as big a surprise as who he was tied with.

Richard Sterne’s victory in the Wales Open at Celtic Manor has made him one of 14 players to book places in next month’s Open championship at Carnoustie.

Scott Verplank fired five birdies in 13 holes and climbed into a six-way tie at the top the leaderboard as rain and darkness brought a premature end to the third round of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial GC in Fort Worth on Saturday.

South African Tim Clark fired a six-under-par 64 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead midway through the second round of the €4.4m Crowne Plaza Invitational.

Tiger Woods bogeyed the final two holes to hand Rory Sabbatini the lead in a tight finish to the third round at the $6.3m (€4.6m) Wachovia Championship on Saturday.

Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh set up a showdown at the Wachovia Championship after moving into a joint lead at Charlotte.

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.

Lee Westwood and Padraig Harrington clash in the first round of the Accenture world match play championship in Tucson on Wednesday – as do their Ryder Cup team-mates Darren Clarke and Sergio Garcia.

Padraig Harrington, normally to be found in Asia at this early stage of the season, is trying something different this time – and trying for a notable double.

Chris DiMarco leaps all the way from 21st to sixth in the American Ryder Cup race with his second-place finish at the Open.

Ryder Cup star Paul McGinley has dismissed suggestions an American team full of rookies will make Europe’s defence of the trophy in September easier.

Nick Faldo, who has played just six tournaments this year and not made a halfway cut in any of them, has been paired with Tiger Woods in the first two rounds of the Open championship at Hoylake on Thursday and Friday.

Ryder Cup player Stewart Cink leads the Bank of America Colonial tournament in Texas after undertaking what he calls “an overhaul of my whole attitude”.

South African Trevor Immelman experienced bitter disappointment on the US Tour for the second week running today.

Trevor Immelman has given himself the chance to make instant amends for losing a play-off on the US Tour.

Paul McGinley remains the only Irish player within the qualifying positions for the Ryder Cup at the K Club in September.

Colin Montgomerie is sitting out the weekend for the sixth tournament running - this time all because American Chad Campbell sank a 15-foot putt.

VIJAY SINGH, the 2000 champion and world number two, yesterday demonstrated that the newly revamped Augusta National golf course need not be the kind of monster that many had predicted.

Phil Mickelson was in a league of his own in Atlanta as he produced the lowest 36-hole score of his 15-year US Tour career.

Phil Mickelson may have failed to hang on to two of his titles so far this season, but he made a sparkling start to his defence of the BellSouth Classic in Atlanta yesterday.

Sergio Garcia, the star who craves a major golf title so much, could achieve the next best thing tomorrow.

FOUR birdies in five holes gave David Howell his second victory at the Accenture World Match Play Championship in California - and set him up for a clash with Phil Mickelson.

David Toms took another impressive step towards retaining the Accenture World Match Play championship in California today.

PADRAIG HARRINGTON was the only Irishman still standing on a day when there was no keeping Tiger Woods out of the headlines when the Accenture World Match Play championship began at La Costa near San Diego.

SEVEN months ago Henrik Stenson had never played a golf tournament in America. Now he gets called in to speak to the media before he has even hit a shot.

Seven months ago Henrik Stenson had never played a golf tournament in America. Now he gets called in to speak to the media before he has even hit a shot.

There is a rapidly-reducing list of things Tiger Woods still has to do in golf - but one is win the Nissan Open in Los Angeles and another is start a season with three successive victories.

THE WITHDRAWAL of Sergio Garcia means that Ireland's Graeme McDowell will provide the first round opposition to Tiger Woods in the Accenture World Match Play Championship beginning in Carlsbad, California, on tomorrow week.

PHIL MICKELSON and Tiger Woods believe it is inevitable, simply a by-product of evolution.

American Arron Oberholser has moved up from 80th to 41st in the world rankings following his maiden US Tour victory in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am.

Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell faces a match against Tiger Woods after squeezing into the 64-man field for next week’s Accenture world match play championship at La Costa near San Diego.

American Arron Oberholser capitalised on a massive stroke of luck to land his first US Tour title today.

American Arron Oberholser was given a huge early boost when the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am began today.

Luke Donald, who came from six shots back to win the Target World Challenge in December, found himself needing the same last-day fireworks after a disappointing third-round 71 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am.

Luke Donald followed up one of the luckiest bounces of his career to stay in the hunt for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am today.

Even with three birdies at the end of his second round that led to a five-under-par 67, Mike Weir knows what awaits him in the third round of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and he is not looking forward to it.

A lucky bounce off the rocks for a closing birdie gave Luke Donald something to smile about after a difficult day at Pebble Beach in the AT&T National Pro-Am.