Jason Dufner beat Ernie Els in a sudden death play-off to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, an event which saw Luke Donald regain top spot in the world rankings.

Birdies at the fourth and fifth holes kept Sergio Garcia on course for a runaway victory in his home Castello Masters today.

FOUR years ago, 3 Irish Open Championship leader David Howell was ranked the ninth best golfer on the planet, one of the heroes of the 2006 European Ryder Cup team that thrashed the USA and was seemingly destined to challenge for golf’s highest honours.

Rory McIlroy was bouncing back superbly from the nightmare of his second round 80 at the third round of The Open in St Andrews today.

LEADING the way in round one of the Open Championship is nothing new to Graeme McDowell although he came up short at Turnberry yesterday after looking a likely candidate for much of his round.

Miguel Angel Jimenez finally made his presence felt at the Spanish Open in Girona today by racing to the turn in a five under par 31.

Englishman Richard Finch claimed his first European Tour title today with victory at the New Zealand Open.

Sweden’s Niclas Fasth today beat England’s Miles Tunnicliff in a play-off to win the Holden New Zealand Open.

ERNIE ELS is not the kind of golfer who scorns a chance and, when the putts rattled in from at yesterday's second round in the American Express World Championship at Mount Juliet, he kept up the pressure relentlessly.

Gary Emerson celebrated the first European Tour win of his 10-year career after overcoming a marathon final day to claim the BMW Russian Open title.

SEVE BALLESTEROS and Pádraig Harrington have both called for a change in the European tour rule which could this weekend see Sandy Lyle lose his exempt status after 25 years.

Ernie Els today maintained his grip on the Scottish Open title midway through the third round at Loch Lomond.

Tiger Woods had no thoughts of saving his best for the Ryder Cup when he took a one-stroke lead into the second round of the American Express World Championship at Mount Juliet today.

Tiger Woods made it plain and simple today – winning the Ryder Cup next week means less to him than claiming another world title and another million dollars this Sunday.

Seve Ballesteros today moved into a shock early lead in the first round of the Madeira Island Open.

Alastair Forsyth took another step forward in his bid to regain the European Tour card he lost in controversial circumstances last year in the Malaysian Open.

Padraig Harrington found his overnight lead quickly halved in the early stages of the third round of the Algarve Portuguese Open.

Tiger Woods was among the later starters at the Players Championship - his final tournament before he goes for a fourth successive major victory at the Masters in a fortnight.