John Daly, who pulled out of the US PGA last month after a first round 78 complaining of a bad back, has withdrawn from next week’s Austrian Open.

Dane Soren Hansen is the only member of last year’s Ryder Cup team not to have qualified for next week’s Players Championship – golf’s unofficial fifth major - in Florida.

John Daly and Colin Montgomerie were left with plenty of ground to make up as a fierce pace was set in the first round of the Spanish Open in Girona today.

The player ranked 788th in the world – sandwiched between those household names Tyrone Mordt and Bret Guetz – finds himself the centre of attention at the Spanish Open, which starts tomorrow.

HIS stomach shrunk by surgery and his gambling, divorces and drinking having reportedly left him close to bankruptcy, John Daly says he is looking forward to “hitting the European Tour” next week.

Jack Cover, who invented the Taser stun gun now used by thousands of police agencies as a better way to subdue suspects, has died at 88.

Tiger Woods believes the Players Championship at Sawgrass will be wide open when the prestigious event gets underway on Thursday.

Masters champion Phil Mickelson is doing what all good golfers do – taking it one shot at a time, one round at a time and one major at a time.

Medical examiners have found that Taser electric stun guns, which are being trialled by British police forces, may have played a role in at least five deaths, contradicting the manufacturer’s claim that the weapons never killed or injured anyone, a US newspaper reported.

TAKE a bow, Tim Herron. You are the man. You took on the feared seventh hole at Shinnecock Hills and lived. Timbo, you rock.

CAN this finally be the year Phil Mickelson overcomes his demons and wins a major championship?

THE LAST person Justin Leonard wanted to see in his wing mirror coming down the stretch in yesterday’s final round of the US PGA Championship was Tiger Woods.

Underworld have completed recording their new album.

Vanilla Ice spent the night in jail after allegedly ripping out some of his wife's hair during a domestic dispute.