Former world number one Vijay Singh will compete at Sunningdale next month in a bid to qualify for the Open at Royal St George's.

IT WAS in the gloom of a cool October Sunday five years ago when Tiger Woods stood to the back of the 18th green at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club and watched his American teammates celebrate a Presidents Cup win over the International Team.

A COMPANY town with a company golf course, almost everything you see in this corner of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin appears to have the name ‘Kohler’ stamped on it, from the bathtubs to the owner of this week’s US PGA Championship venue.

Steve Lowery took the opening-round lead at the Buick Open in Michigan this morning as Tiger Woods made a slow start to his first tournament since the missing the cut at the Open Championship.

TIGER WOODS has been out on the Turnberry links for the last two mornings while the vast majority of us were still fast asleep.

Tiger Woods had completed his second practice round for The Open by just after 10am today – and described Turnberry as “a lot more difficult than people are letting on.”

Without naming any names this time Paul Azinger has once again made gamesmanship a talking point ahead of this week’s Ryder Cup.

COULD this US Open have been any better, any more exciting or any more suspenseful?

Briny Baird shot a three-under-par 69 to take a one-stroke lead over Peter Lonard and Jay Williamson after the second round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Friday.

Graeme McDowell enjoyed a sensational start to the second round to roar to the top of the Ballantine’s Championship leaderboard ahead of clubhouse leaders Paul McGinley and Kim Hyung-tae.

Paul McGinley thrived in blustery conditions with a bogey-free five-under-par 67 to take a share of the clubhouse lead on nine under at the Ballantine’s Championship on Jeju Island, South Korea.

Justin Leonard shot a six-under-par 66 to move to 23-under and build a four-stroke lead going into the final round of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.

Woody Austin and Mark Calcavecchia captured the Merrill Lynch Shootout with a one-shot victory over Greg Norman and Bubba Watson last night.

AFTER one of the biggest wins of the European Tour season Lee Westwood is now thinking big.

Tiger Woods shot his rivals down in flames at Firestone in Akron today – and taught South African Rory Sabbatini a lesson he perhaps should have learnt three months ago.

Sergio Garcia is 18 holes away from completing a dream return to Carnoustie - scene of his biggest golfing nightmare eight years ago.

Rory McIlroy is not content with being the top amateur at the Open Championship after setting his eyes on a top-10 finish.

American Steve Stricker carded the lowest round ever in an Open Championship at Carnoustie to set a testing clubhouse target today.

Tigers Woods has jumped into a share of the lead at the Open Championship with an eagle on the sixth, holing from 14 feet to move to three under par.

The 136th Open Championship got under way at Carnoustie today in the shadow of claims from Gary Player that he “knows for a fact” there are players taking drugs.

Defending champion Tiger Woods has been grouped with former winner Paul Lawrie and Justin Rose for the first two rounds of the British Open at Carnoustie this week.

David Toms and Jay Williamson utilised different formulas for success but the duo ended up tied for the lead at eight-under-par 132 at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.

Hunter Mahan carded 10 birdies en route to an eight-under-par 62 and a two-shot lead in the first round of the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.

The Ryder Cup pumped a record €143m directly into the Irish economy, it was revealed today.

Joint overnight leader Justin Rose had a long wait before resuming the Masters today – but a better idea of how to handle it.

Tiger Woods was on the wrong end of a whitewash today in the annual match between the stars of the Isleworth and Lake Nona clubs in Orlando.

Swedes Daniel Chopra and Jesper Parnevik led the early European challenge in the first round of the Pods Championship at Palm Harbour in Florida.

Ian Poulter took an early lead in his second round match against Bradley Dredge at the Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona.

Thomas Bjorn was the first player eliminated at the Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona today after playing only 13 holes.

Ian Poulter took an early lead in his first round clash at the Accenture Match Play Championship today.

Jose Maria Olazabal took an early lead in his first-round clash at the Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona today.

Retief Goosen and Richard Green remain top of the leaderboard at the end of the third round of the Commercialbank Qatar Masters but were joined by Nick O’Hern.

Retief Goosen stayed cool in the desert heat to move two shots clear at the top of the Commercialbank Qatar Masters leaderboard but defending champion Henrik Stenson is hoping the weather takes a turn for the worse over the weekend.

World number eight Retief Goosen remained cool in the desert heat to stay top of the Commercialbank Qatar Masters’ leaderboard at the end of his second round - but was joined by Australian Richard Green.

Retief Goosen continued where he left off on Thursday as the second round of the Commercialbank Qatar Masters got under way today.

Retief Goosen holds a one-shot lead going into the second round of the Commercialbank Qatar Masters in Doha.

Miguel Angel Jimenez carded an eagle on his outward nine to take the early lead in the opening round of the Commercialbank Qatar Masters in Doha.

Paul Casey put the disappointment of missing out on the European Tour Order of Merit title last season behind him by carding a superb final-round seven-under-par 65 to capture the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship today.

Padraig Harrington has dropped to third in the leaderboard on a tense final day at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship today.

Padraig Harrington today carded a birdie on the 18th to move one shot clear at the top of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship leaderboard going into the final round.

Padraig Harrington took advantage of a nervy start to the third round by overnight leader Phillip Price to move to the top of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship leaderboard today.

Phillip Price came from nowhere to go into the weekend with a one-shot lead at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship after carding a seven-under-par 65 for a 10 under 134 overall.