Webb Simpson was nervous about playing with Tiger Woods for the first two rounds at the Wells Fargo Championship, but on day two the challenge came from another familiar face in the form of his house guest Nick Watney.

SCOTT VERPLANK was vying with Steve Stricker at the top of the leaderboard last night but Tiger Woods was in freefall as he stared at the prospect of his first PGA Championship missed cut in 14 starts.

Graeme McDowell said in Ireland last week he felt close to his best form and today in Akron he looked closer still, going to the turn in a three-under-par 32 when the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational began.

There was a Rory setting the early pace at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron today, but it was South African Rory Sabbatini rather than Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy.

Ben Crane withstood a nervy finish to claim a one-shot victory at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego.

The PGA Tour’s hopes of completing both remaining rounds of the delayed RBC Canadian Open were again scuppered by the weather in Ontario.

Paul Casey and Geoff Ogilvy were battling it out for supremacy on the PGA Tour again as the wind-delayed Shell Houston Open played catch up.