Danny Willett would have been trying to keep his head down today after his brother's controversial attack on Americans.

Donald Trump may become the 45th President of the United States but whether or not he becomes a distraction as his Trump National Doral course hosts the WGC Cadillac Championship this week, he’s unlikely to change the essence of the way he goes about his business.

Graeme McDowell wasn’t ringing any Open Championship alarm bells as he looks certain to drop outside the World’s Top 50 for a first time in more than five years after missing the halfway cut in the defence of his French Open title.

Ernie Els has always been a rugby player at heart, a big and bruising heavyweight champion in a sport, golf, that doesn’t fancy itself for that weight class.

Graeme McDowell will tee off in his second round at The Open this afternoon hoping for an ill wind to blow across Royal Liverpool and give him a chance to play catch up with Rory McIlroy.

Rory McIlroy managed to squeeze in nine holes of practice ahead of the start of today’s PGA Tour flagship Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.

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.

Welshman Jamie Donaldson, the man who recently sent Robert Rock a picture of his US Masters invitation just to wind him up, has now succeeded him as winner of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.

Pádraig Harrington may be languishing 59th in the world rankings right now but he begins his 2013 campaign in the €2m Volvo Champions event at Durban Country Club, South Africa with confidence.

Branden Grace now has Race to Dubai front-runner Rory McIlroy in his sights after leading from start to finish to capture the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrews.

It will not only be Pádraig Harrington and Hunter Mahan kicking their heels this weekend when the Ryder Cup begins without them at Medinah.

Lee Westwood has decided to split with long-time coach Pete Cowen in a bid to put the spark back into his game.

After two top-10 finishes in the year’s Majors, Pádraig Harrington may well be back as a big-time contender, but the Irishman is not so sure he ever stopped being one.

Graeme McDowell is not pushing the panic button after missing three cuts in a row and insists he feels nothing but good vibrations on his return to America’s west coast for the US Open.

HE has turned 40, fallen to 89th in the world rankings and lost his most benevolent sponsor.

GRAEME McDowell will take a one-shot lead into today’s third round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City.

SOUTH AFRICA’S James Kingston was on top of the pile at eight under par 64 after day one of the Portugal Masters saw 31 players achieve a score of five under or better.

Padraig Harrington's new-look swing has not resulted in a noticeable improvement in form after the opening day of the Austrian Open.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON is hoping a new swing will help him to a high finish on his debut at the Austrian Golf Open this week.

Padraig Harrington is hoping a new swing will help him to a much-needed high finish when he makes his debut at the Austrian Golf Open this week.

THEY may have experienced wildly different campaigns in the Majors this year, but hope springs eternal for Rory McIlroy and Pádraig Harrington as they look forward to strong finishes to their seasons.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON will swap the Bahamas for Greensboro, North Carolina this week as he bids to make up for a Majors campaign he marked for himself as a ‘D’.

GRAEME McDOWELL will go into this evening’s PGA Championship first round looking to reset his expectations after admitting a top-10 finish no longer excited him.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON will wait until after this week’s PGA Championship before taking his new relationship with golf coach Pete Cowen to a more permanent level.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON believes Pete Cowen could be the new coach to help him solve some swing riddles and emerge from his three-year slump.

AUSTRALIA’S Adam Scott closed with an immaculate five under 65 to win the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational by four shots from Rickie Fowler and Luke Donald on 17 under par.

IF a change is as good as a rest, then Pádraig Harrington can expect to mount a challenge for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club exactly two years after he finished second to Tiger Woods in a thrilling finish.

WHEN Thomas Bjorn’s father lost his battle with a long illness in May, his golfing son was pacing around Finca Cortesin in Spain, waiting to see whether he would be turning his first alternate status at the HSBC World Match Play into a starting place.

THE atmosphere was never going to compare to last October’s Ryder Cup, but Graeme McDowell and Peter Hanson found Celtic Manor a happy hunting ground again yesterday.

The atmosphere was never going to compare to last October’s Ryder Cup, but Graeme McDowell and Peter Hanson found Celtic Manor a happy hunting ground again today.

DARREN CLARKE ended a three-year winless drought in Mallorca but Graeme McDowell couldn’t make it an Irish double as he imploded with a final round 79 in the Players Championship at Sawgrass.

Luke Donald and Graeme McDowell were in joint third place entering today’s third round of the Players Championship – golf’s richest event – at Sawgrass.

GOLF: GRAEME McDOWELL has a chance to win golf’s richest event this weekend — only weeks after asking himself : “Am I finished?”

Golf pundits in the US are speculating that Tiger Woods may need to take another long break from the game, after a knee injury forced him to limp out of the Players Championship at Sawgrass after nine holes.

GRAEME MCDOWELL crashed to an eight over 80 in the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill and confessed that it might be just the “kick in the ass” he needs to get his game in shape for the Masters.

GRAEME McDOWELL finds it “surreal” to think that he has outstripped Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in the world rankings.

European Ryder Cup star Lee Westwood says he is feeling “pretty strong” as he prepares to play his first round since pulling out of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational seven weeks ago.

WHEN Tiger Woods won the 2000 Open Championship at St Andrews by eight shots, hardly an eyebrow was raised in surprise.

CONSIDERING he’d had less than five hours sleep, the new US Open champion was remarkably sharp.

Sergio Garcia hit a new low today when he crashed out of the Madrid Masters at the halfway stage – his first missed cut on European soil for nearly six years.

World number eight Sergio Garcia had the spotlight taken off by him by world number 1,076 Manuel Quiros when the Madrid Masters began today.

THOMAS BJORN did not have much to smile about in France last week, but what a difference it was in Scotland yesterday. Bjorn, non-playing captain of the Continental Europe team hammered by Britain and Ireland, began the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship with an eight-under-par 64 at Kingsbarns.