Rory McIlroy shot his first par round with his Nike clubs as Graeme McDowell turned a green light into a rip-roaring start in the Honda Classic.

Justin Rose piled on the agony for Darren Clarke with a 6&4 drubbing at the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain today.

Tom Lewis beat Australian John Senden on his Volvo World Match Play debut in Spain today - and as a result put himself and defending champion Ian Poulter into the last 16.

Open champion Darren Clarke has been drawn alongside England’s Justin Rose and Robert Rock in the group stages of this week’s Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesin near Marbella this week.

Colombia's Camilo Villegas and American David Toms share the lead on nine-under-par after the first round of the Humana Challenge at La Quinta Country Club.

Padraig Harrington feels he will have to produce some of his very best golf to defend his Iskandar Johor Open title in Malaysia this week.

ON A course he says is cruel to a golf buggy’s batteries, John Paramor may be inflicting considerable pain on his cart at Killarney Golf & Fishing Club this week.

Luke Donald is on course to become world number one after a second-round of 65 moved him into a one-shot lead at The Heritage at Hilton Head.

Frost delayed the start of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship for 30 minutes in Tucson today.

Ernie Els is expected to be back in action at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson on Wednesday after a sore neck kept him out of last week’s Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles.

Ian Poulter is set to start the defence of his WGC-Accenture Match Play title against 2009 Open champion Stewart Cink if all the world’s top 64 show up in Tucson next week.

Phil Mickelson is the star attraction in Phoenix this week, but the noisiest crowd in golf might well be saving its biggest cheers for the new kid on the block.

Martin Kaymer is on course to retain the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and take the world number two spot off Tiger Woods after a scintillating second-round 65 today.

Padraig Harrington, one stroke off the lead overnight, was disqualified from his first event of the year without hitting another shot today.

Tiger Woods is top of the leaderboard after the opening round of the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, California.

SUNDAY’S confirmation by the European Tour that the July 28-31 date has been reserved for the 2011 Irish Open and chief executive George O’Grady’s comment that Killarney is the preferred venue had been well flagged but there is still no guarantee the tournament will take place in 2011.

LEE WESTWOOD has strengthened his place at the top of the world rankings and re-ignited his bid to retain the European Tour’s Race to Dubai order of merit by finishing a stroke behind Francesco Molinari in the HSBC World Championship in Shanghai.

Tiger Woods responded to his divorce this week by shooting a 65 to take a share of the lead at the Barclays in New Jersey.

Tiger Woods was left in an unfamiliar position at St Andrews today after being joined by Rory McIlroy in golf’s “63 Club.”

Former champion Paul Lawrie today got the 139th Open Championship under way in near-perfect conditions at St Andrews.

THE contrast could hardly be greater for Justin Rose than it will be on Thursday when he tees off with Tiger Woods at St Andrews.

The new US Open champion Graeme McDowell will have to wait until just before 2pm on Thursday when he tees off with two former winners of that title, Jim Furyk and Geoff Ogilvy at the Open in St Andrews.

GRAEME MCDOWELL, golf’s newest major champion, returns to the European Tour at Loch Lomond today but admits it could be St Andrews next week before he is ready to contend again.

TIGER WOODS took five and a half hours to post his first birdie in yesterday’s opening round of the JP McManus Pro-Am at Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort and eventually signed for a seven over par 79.

World number one Tiger Woods has confirmed he will make his first appearance outside of the United States this year at next month’s JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am tournament in Limerick.

Graeme McDowell and Justin Rose are up to 36th and 33rd in the world after their wins on both sides of the Atlantic.

Brian Davis’ second runners-up finish of the year in America has taken him from 110th to 72nd in the world.

Simon Khan has climbed a massive 365 places on the world rankings to 106th following his stunning BMW PGA Championship victory at Wentworth.

Lee Westwood has reached the world number three position for the first time in his career.

Rory McIlroy is back in the world’s top 10 and Phil Mickelson can topple Tiger Woods at the top of the rankings this week.

Tiger Woods posted a two-over-par 74 and found himself nine shots off the pace set by fellow American Bo van Pelt after the first round of the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina.

JP McMANUS last night re-affirmed his view that Tiger Woods would be in the field for the fifth renewal of his invitational pro-am at Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort in July.

GRAEME McDOWELL, who has reclaimed his place in the world top 50 thanks to a top 10 finish in the Volvo China Open, hopes for a repeat of some fond memories at this week’s Ballantines Championship over the Pinx golf course in Jeju Island, Korea.

ONE month he wins the Champion Hurdle with Binocular, the next it’s the Aintree Grand National, and it seems life just couldn’t get any better for JP McManus.

Jim Furyk is back up to fifth in the world after his Verizon Heritage Classic victory, while Londoner Brian Davis, who conceded their play-off after calling a two-shot penalty on himself, still rises 68 places to 98th.

Padraig Harrington drops out of the top 10 in the world after he missed the cut in The Augusta Masters at the weekend.

YOU might not realise it, but this week’s Masters has more than just one entrant.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON was breathing a sigh of relief after avoiding a nightmare draw with Tiger Woods for the first two rounds of the Masters.

The sporting world will have to wait until 1.42pm on Thursday – 6.42pm Irish time – to see the first shot that Tiger Woods has hit in competition for 144 days.

Tiger Woods will play with fellow American Matt Kuchar and Korean KJ Choi in the first two rounds of The Masters on Thursday and Friday.

Padraig Harrington's joint-eighth result at the Transitions Championship over the weekend has kept in the world top 10.

Rory McIlroy has been knocked out of the world’s top 10 following his dismal showing at the WGC-CA Championship.

COLOMBIAN Camilo Villegas landed the Honda Classic title at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, after holding off a European challenge led by Justin Rose.

JUSTIN ROSE is determined to prove his Ryder Cup credentials but believes the less he thinks about it the better his chances will be of making Colin Montgomerie’s team.