It’s an Aladdin’s cave for golf nuts. Heaven for hackers. Valhalla for garage golfers and other madcap inventors believing they’ve come up with the game’s greatest gadget.

Swedish Princess Madeleine fell in love in the Big Apple. Now she has said "yes" to New York banker Christopher O'Neill in a lavish wedding ceremony in Stockholm.

Another day, another bogey-free round, but still Luke Donald could shake off an under-the-weather Rory McIlroy.

Seamus Power’s PGA Tour dream will have to wait for at least another year after the West Waterford man fell at the penultimate stage of the dreaded Q School for the second year running.

American Ryder Cup captain Davis Love would love to see Tiger Woods taking on Rory McIlroy in the Ryder Cup singles in Chicago next month.

IT WAS a chilly, windy morning for the third round of the Irish Close Championship at Tramore in 1987.

Tiger Woods admitted he could have done more on the par five holes on the Torrey Pines North Course after firing a bogey-free round of 69 to open his season in the Farmers Insurance Open in California.

American Derek Lamely carded a nine-under-par 63 to claim a one-shot lead after the first round of the Bob Hope Classic yesterday.

COREY PAVIN, the US Ryder Cup captain, today announces his four wild cards for Celtic Manor next month well satisfied with the form of most of those who have already qualified were performing in the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston over the weekend.

TIGER WOODS’ ex-wife Elin Nordegren said she has “been through hell” since her husband’s infidelity surfaced, but she never hit him, according to an interview released Wednesday.

KOREAN KJ Choi will try to bridge a seven-year gap in Stockholm this weekend – and with it stop Open champion Louis Oosthuizen from making a piece of European Tour history.

Korean KJ Choi will try to bridge a seven-year gap in Stockholm this weekend - and with it stop Open champion Louis Oosthuizen from making a piece of European Tour history.

THE Louis Oosthuizen show just kept on rolling today after the new Open champion swapped St Andrews for Stockholm and starred again.

The Louis Oosthuizen show just kept on rolling today after the new Open champion swapped St Andrews for Stockholm and starred again.

Scottish Open champion Edoardo Molinari made a great start to the Nordea Scandinavian Masters in Stockholm today – and that was bad news for England’s Luke Donald.

FORMER Ryder Cup star Jesper Parnevik took his first tentative steps back into competitive golf yesterday and admitted: “This could be very embarrassing”.

OPEN champion Louis Oosthuizen has splashed out on something special to mark his first major win — a tractor.

Former Ryder Cup Swede Jesper Parnevik will play his first tournament since February at the Nordea Scandinavian Masters in Stockholm this week.

Ryan Palmer sneaked in with a four-under-par round of 66 late in the day to take the halfway lead at the Sony Open in Honolulu.

John Daly has called for the international golf community to respect the privacy of embattled superstar Tiger Woods.

A New York nightclub hostess accused of having an affair with Tiger Woods cancelled a planned press conference amid reports she had negotiated a million-dollar deal to remain silent about her alleged relationship with the champion golfer.

WHAT promised to be a kiss and tell press conference by the first woman named in the Tiger Woods mistress scandal was abruptly cancelled yesterday amid reports the golfer had made it worth her while to keep silent.

A New York nightclub hostess who denied having an affair with Tiger Woods cancelled a press conference in which she was due to talk about their relationship today “due to unforeseen circumstances”.

The Swedish golfer who introduced Tiger Woods to his wife said today that he thought the world number one “was a better guy than he is”.

A closing double bogey from Ryder Cup Dane Soren Hansen – the only one on the hole all day – left England’s Chris Wood and Australian Scott Strange sharing the halfway lead at the Mercedes-Benz Championship in Cologne.

Former Ryder Cup star Jesper Parnevik is out of golf for the rest of the year after having arthroscopic hip surgery.

PAUL LAWRIE has a chance this weekend to achieve something which has even eluded Tiger Woods so far.

A spectacular six-under-par round of 66 saw Ireland's Jonathan Caldwell storm into contention at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles today.

LAST SEASON’S European number one Robert Karlsson could end up missing three of this year’s four majors because of continuing eye problems.

The PGA Tour produced another Sunday play-off as Bo Van Pelt defeated John Mallinger in sudden death to win the US Bank Championship in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

A three-under-par 67 kept Australia's Greg Chalmers on top of the leaderboard as the US Bank Championship in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, reached the halfway stage.

Kenny Perry shot a course record-equalling 61 at TPC River Highlands to take the lead in the Travelers Championship at the end of the first round in Connecticut last night.

Brian Gay gave up a shot at the final hole to leave him with a slender lead as he chased a second PGA Tour victory of the year at the St Jude Classic today.

Jesper Parnevik has missed out on a return to Turnberry by two shots after carding a one-under 70 in the second round of the American qualifier in Texas.

Mathias Gronberg led a Swedish charge at La Cantera as Justin Leonard maintained a share of his overnight lead in the Valero Texas Open today.

Padraig Harrington will try for a third successive Open Championship this July on a Turnberry course which has been lengthened by nearly 250 yards since it last staged the event 15 years ago.

Reigning British Open and PGA champion Padraig Harrington bogeyed two of his first four holes and never got on track after the second round of the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines Golf Course.

Nick Faldo sat and listened to his players defending his actions on Sunday night as European dreams of a fourth successive Ryder Cup victory lay in tatters.

Nick Faldo has made one final gamble in the Ryder Cup - putting British Open and US PGA champion Padraig Harrington out last in the singles.

American Stewart Cink made an early move before getting a reality check during the third round at the Deutsche Bank Championship today.

Defending champion Steve Stricker reeled in four-shot overnight leader Hunter Mahan and grabbed the early second-round lead at The Barclays today.

Defending champion Steve Stricker reeled in four-shot overnight leader Hunter Mahan and grabbed the early second-round lead at The Barclays today.

Steve Stricker led the second round charge in the The Barclays at Ridgewood Country Club with Hunter Mahan sitting on a four-stroke overnight lead.

Carl Pettersson staked his claim for a place on the European Ryder Cup team with a two-stroke victory in the Wyndham Championship on Sunday.