With Tiger Woods, who set the bar for modern dominance, back in the game, Kevin Markham looks at golf’s greatest winning runs.

Kenny Perry, who won the US Senior Open in July, never tasted major championship glory during an otherwise successful PGA Tour career.

Olympic champion Justin Rose believes new formats should remain an occasional diversion from golf’s traditional 72-hole strokeplay events.

Spain's Sergio Garcia led from start to finish to claim his 12th European Tour title, and first for three years, in impressive fashion in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

In the surrounds of the richest golf ambiance anywhere and on the threshold of the oldest championship the sport knows, it probably isn’t the proper time to ask if you’ve ever heard of the Greater Milwaukee Open or the Quad City Classic or something called the BC Open, or even the LaCantera Texas Open.

Tiger Woods believes either Darren Clarke or Miguel Angel Jimenez would make an ideal European Ryder Cup captain in 2016.

Pádraig Harrington embarks on his 16th PGA Championship campaign today striving to recover the mental strength to stop him "getting in my own way".

Brendan Steele hit an eagle and six birdies to take a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Travelers Championship in Connecticut last night.

Was it only three years ago that Rory McIlroy had been in Jordan Spieth’s golf shoes?

If the intention was to make a statement without actually saying anything, then William Payne succeeded in an emphatic fashion yesterday at Augusta National Golf Club.

Tom Watson’s amazing return as American Ryder Cup captain — he will be 65 at Gleneagles in 2014 and the oldest skipper in history — was not a knee-jerk reaction to their latest defeat.

Three-time Major winner Pádraig Harrington has re-signed with Wilson Golf in a multi-year deal that will see him continue to play Wilson Staff clubs on both tours from January.

As Rory McIlroy travelled home from America today, US Open trophy on board, another runaway winner of the title has spelt out what it means.

HOW Tiger Woods acts is going to be put under the microscope as much as what he says and what he scores when he returns to golf this week.

SOUTH AFRICA’S Rory Sabbatini withstood a late charge from Briton Brian Davis to clinch a two-stroke victory at the $6.5m (€4.6m) Byron Nelson Championship on Sunday.

Masters champion Trevor Immelman has withdrawn from the Players Championship at Sawgrass because of illness.

Trevor Immelman admitted he still cannot quite believe he is the new Masters champion as he prepared to return to competitive action for the first time since his Augusta National victory earlier this month.

Phil Mickelson has had a year to get over the agony of Winged Foot but in less than 24 hours he could be experiencing a different pain.

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.

After being dubbed “The Beast of Brookline” for his behaviour at the 1999 Ryder Cup there must have been a time when Tom Lehman wondered what sort of reception he would receive in Europe. But not any more.

Luke Donald recovered from a sluggish start to end the day as he started it, with a one-shot lead after the third round at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship today.

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.

Arnold Palmer has agreed to become an honorary starter for this year’s Masters at Augusta National.

Ryder Cup team-mates Lee Westwood and Padraig Harrington are both looking forward to meeting in an intriguing first round encounter at the Accenture Match Play Championship tomorrow.

Tiger Woods has warned Ernie Els he will not give up his world number one position lightly as the South African continues his pursuit of the top spot at the Dubai Desert Classic this week.

There is something that means more to Tiger Woods than winning seven successive US Tour titles – and it is not hard to guess what it is.

The finish of an impressive 2006 season carried over to 2007 for Tiger Woods as he won his seventh consecutive tour event on Sunday, capturing the Buick Invitational by two strokes.

Father-to-be Tiger Woods this week tries to continue a simply phenomenal run which has seen him win every US Tour event he has played in since July 12 last year.

Two more majors. Two more world championships. Nine more wins. Ten million more dollars. Six strokeplay victories in a row.

He could not quite make it four eagles out of four on the 18th and because of two rain delays it took him 7 1/2 hours to get there, but Tiger Woods had no trouble achieving what he came to do at The Grove near Watford today.

American Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman pulled out of the American Express World Championship before the start at The Grove near Watford today in order to attend the funeral of golf legend Byron Nelson.

Tiger Woods and a tearful Jim Furyk have joined the long list of tributes to Byron Nelson following the death of the American legend yesterday at the age of 94.

Five-time major winner Byron Nelson has died at the age of 94.

A truly dazzling closing 63 gave Tiger Woods an amazing fifth successive victory today.

Vijay Singh carded a record-breaking round to take the lead at the €4.4m Deutsche Bank Championship.

Tiger Woods was pleased to get off to a good start as he again took a position that is all too familiar for his PGA Tour competitors – atop the leaderboard.

Tiger Woods' latest golfing feat has been hailed as “an amazing accomplishment” by the man likely to partner him at next month’s Ryder Cup.

In the month he celebrates 10 years as a professional, Tiger Woods achieved his 50th US Tour win, from a mere 196 events.

Phil Mickelson has withdrawn from this week’s Byron Nelson Championship in Texas.

Ernie Els is at the Masters, but not where he would really love to be tonight. Nor is Sergio Garcia. Nor Retief Goosen, Colin Montgomerie nor Darren Clarke.

BRAD FAXON won the biggest award of his career yesterday without being able to hit a golf shot.

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Darren Clarke was one of three trailblazers at the top of the leaderboard on day one of the $6m (€4.7m) Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club.