You do not have to win the Tour Championship to top the FedEx Cup rankings and pick up the $10 million jackpot on Sunday night — but it sure helps.

Phil Mickelson saw major championship history elude him at the last moment but at least has the comfort of a healthy lead going into today’s Open Championship second round.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy can achieve a career milestone and set himself up perfectly for a much more important one in the WGC-Dell Match Play this week.

New Players champion Rickie Fowler is relishing his trip to Royal Country Down for the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.

Former world number one Tiger Woods gained an unwanted record as he struggled to a third round of 75 in the Players Championship today.

Rory McIlroy kicked off his Players Championship victory quest with only his second sub-70 TPC Sawgrass start and then downplayed any threat of burnout in competing for five straight weeks up to and including the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.

Rory McIlroy won a tournament as the No. 1 player in the world.

Rory McIlroy quickly set about ensuring his previous late heroics did not go to waste in the last 16 of the WGC-Cadillac Match Play in San Francisco today.

Top seed and four-time major winner Rory McIlroy has been handed a tough draw for the new-look WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship in San Francisco after being grouped with Billy Horschel, Brandt Snedeker and Jason Dufner. 

The great Australian professional Bruce Crampton might never have won a major, but with four runner-up finishes to his credit, he still knew a thing or two about the game and what makes a golfer tick.

Tiger Woods has dropped out of the world’s top 100 golfers for the first time since 1996.

Playing partner Rickie Fowler admitted it was “tough to see” former world number one Tiger Woods withdraw after just 11 holes of his first round at the Farmers Insurance Open with back pain.

Dubai’s Majlis Course holds happy memories for 25-year-old Rory McIlroy and the Irishman is hoping to add to them this weekend.

The advice has been passed along for decades on the PGA Tour, and Matt Kuchar believes it has merit. He just doesn’t like it.

Rory McIlroy might be big box office, but the Irish Open still needs a commitment from the Irish Government to ensure the event builds on the momentum of what promises to be an 80,000 sellout at Royal County Down next May.

Jamie Donaldson, Sergio Garcia and Marcel Siem will have to achieve something only Rory McIlroy himself has done this season to deny the world number one a second Race to Dubai title in three years.

When eight-time major champion Tom Watson was picked to captain the US Ryder Cup team at Gleneagles, it was considered a masterstroke by the US PGA.

US Ryder Cup star Rickie Fowler is keen on a Walker Cup reunion with Rory McIlroy at next season’s Irish Open at Royal County Down.

Rory McIlroy hopes his decision to host the Irish Open at Royal County Down next year will help restore the event to its former glory.

Rory McIlroy admitted he was looking forward to seeing the back of his golf clubs for a few days after failing to land the jackpot in Atlanta.

Rory McIlroy’s hopes of claiming the $10 million dollar FedEx Cup jackpot and another $1.4m for winning the season-ending US PGA Tour Championship at East Lake, Atlanta, ended in bitter disappointment last night when a series of serious errors beginning with a double bogey five at the short 6th put paid to his chances.

Rory McIlroy produced a brilliant finish to his second round to boost his chances of an extremely lucrative victory in the Tour Championship in Atlanta today.

Rory McIlroy’s bid for a first FedEx Cup title – and with it a bonus of £6m – got off to an eventful start in the Tour Championship in Atlanta yesterday.

There are six million reasons to want to win the FedEx Cup title, but Rory McIlroy insists he needs just one.

There are 10 million reasons to want to win the FedEx Cup title, but Rory McIlroy insists he needs just one.

Billy Horschel won his second PGA Tour event and catapulted himself into FedEx Cup contention with victory at the BMW Championship in Denver on Sunday.

Rory McIlroy wasn’t having the best time on the golf course over the weekend, but his kind gesture left one young golf fan overjoyed.

Phil Mickelson was back on a PGA Tour leaderboard as last year's runner-up made a positive start to the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis.

Watching and waiting. They may be occupying different vantage points during the Masters this week but for Ryder Cup captains Paul McGinley and Tom Watson, the task is exactly the same as they scout potential team members for Gleneagles this September.

Rory McIlroy admits that he simply “couldn’t cope with any more” when he suffered that mentalmeltdown at the Honda Classic last year and fled the course midway through his second round.

Henrik Stenson is in pole position to win more than US$11m tomorrow, but the Swede will have to work much harder than he might have expected in the Tour Championship in Atlanta.

Ian Poulter, one of the Royal & Ancient’s most outspoken critics this week, called for Open organisers to be “sensible” with pin positions over the weekend.

When it came to feuds, Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods made all the headlines last week at the US Open, with the Spaniard apologising for his “fried chicken” remark made a few weeks earlier at a dinner before the BMW PGA Championship on the European Tour at Wentworth.

If Americans were going to be deprived of the thrill of a Phil Mickelson US Open triumph, or baffled silly by the ongoing Major championship disappearance of Tiger Woods; if we’re going to watch Merion bludgeon the world’s best players into a bloody, pulpy mess, then we will happily, enthusiastically embrace the only storyline remaining.

Justin Rose today survived a rollercoaster final round to win his first major title in the US Open and inflict further misery on Phil Mickelson.

The third round of the US Open may have been behind schedule, but it wasted little time in getting off to a dramatic start at Merion today.

The halfway cut fell at eight over par, but Ian Poulter was still predicting a “fun weekend” as the weather-delayed US Open looked to get back on track at Merion today.

Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter today suffered a disappointing finish to his second round as the weather-delayed US Open resumed at Merion.

Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods ducked and weaved as best they could but tough gal Merion continued to land her punches in what’s turning out to be a fascinating US Open.

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy both fancy their chances of winning the US Open this weekend – and they could continue their challenge in the same group for a third day running at Merion.