Sweden's Carl Pettersson and Argentina's Angel Cabrera set the clubhouse target before bad weather brought an early end to play in the first round of the Shell Houston Open.

Australia‘s Robert Allenby led the way as he came to the end of his opening round at the CIMB Asia Pacific Classic.

IAN POULTER admitted he would have been disappointed had he not finished under par at Royal St George’s having played so well without creating many chances during his first round yesterday.

American Scott Verplank has turned down the chance to act as first reserve in The Open at Sandwich tomorrow.

WERE the circumstances any different, the question could be asked of young Rory McIlroy: Have you ever heard of Gil Morgan? Cold that it would be, the question has merit in light of the performance McIlroy has scripted through two days of the 111th US Open.

From a league of his own to re-writing history – Rory McIlroy continued to dazzle in the US Open at Congressional today.

RORY McILROY mixed the brilliant with the indifferent in the second round of the Memorial tournament at Muirfield Village, Ohio, yesterday but remains firmly in contention for his second victory on the PGA US Tour going into the weekend at the $6. 2 million (€4.2m) event.

There is still one table in golf that has Tiger Woods as number one - the American Ryder Cup points list.

Rory McIlroy banished the memory of St Andrews last year to take a clear lead into the closing stretch of his Masters second round in Augusta today.

Rory McIlroy and Alvaro Quiros had some company at the top before they teed off again in The Masters at Augusta.

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.

South African Louis Oosthuizen came under pressure from two of Europe’s finest as The Open continued in more windy conditions at St Andrews.

The new US Open champion Graeme McDowell will have to wait until just before 2pm on Thursday when he tees off with two former winners of that title, Jim Furyk and Geoff Ogilvy at the Open in St Andrews.

AT a time when it seems like everything is going according to plan for the European Ryder Cup team, it is more than a little ironic and disturbing that Pádraig Harrington finds himself struggling for one of the eight automatic places in Colin Montgomerie’s team.

SIX months ago who would have foreseen the possibility of the European Ryder Cup team facing the Americans in October without Sergio Garcia?

Justin Rose placed the blame for his final-round collapse at the Travelers Championship squarely on his putting as Bubba Watson claimed his maiden PGA Tour victory in Connecticut.

Justin Rose extended his lead at the Travelers Championship as he turned for home in his third round in Connecticut.

Jack Fleck has three significant memories of his epic 1955 US Open victory over Ben Hogan.

OFFICIALLY he’s playing in his first major as an American from St Augustine in Florida.

THE MAGNIFICENT victories at the weekend of Justin Rose in Ohio and Graeme McDowell in Wales coming on the back of the recent achievements by Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood are piling the pressure on Padraig Harrington to end his title drought.

Two dropped shots late in his round cost Justin Rose a shot at a share of the lead in the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in Ohio.

THE so called fifth major, the Players Championship at Sawgrass over the weekend, proved a salutary lesson for Ireland’s top two players, Rory McIlroy and Pádraig Harrington.

TIGER WOODS endured a disappointing start to the Quail Hollow Championship yesterday with four bogeys and a double-bogey in a two-over-par opening round of 74.

THE magnificent exploits of Lee Westwood apart, the Masters provided little cheer for European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie.

Lee Westwood, who beat Ian Poulter 4&2 over nine holes in practice on Tuesday, was even more dominant over his fellow Englishman when they played for real in The Masters at Augusta today.

Seventh after one round, third at halfway. Tiger Woods is on the prowl again and now few will be surprised if he wins his first tournament in nearly five months.

IT was like the old joke about the elephant wearing sunglasses because he didn’t want to be recognised.

Ian Poulter had the thrill of leading The Masters at Augusta today, but if that was the ecstasy, the agony certainly belonged to Sandy Lyle.

Tiger Woods will play with fellow American Matt Kuchar and Korean KJ Choi in the first two rounds of The Masters on Thursday and Friday.

Tiger Woods’ bid to win a third title of the year suffered a setback at Congressional Country Club today as he bogeyed the opening hole of his third round at the AT&T National in Maryland.

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.

PHIL MICKELSON was able to see the funny side in chalking up a US Open second-place spot for a record fifth time, at least according to co-runner-up Ricky Barnes.

IN THE normal passage of time, Rory McIlroy will probably forget that he shot four admirable rounds of 72, 70, 72 and 68 to finish two over par in the 2009 US Open at Bethpage and finish in a share of 10th position.

PHIL, Tiger, even David, all came calling but Lucas Glover answered all the questions thrown at him by some of golf’s greatest at Bethpage yesterday and still came through to capture the 109th US Open Championship.

Tiger Woods was left frustrated by his poor putting at Bethpage Black as his reign as US Open champion came to an end on Monday.

Phil Mickelson came up short in a US Open for the fifth time in his career as Lucas Glover held his nerve to claim a two-shot victory on a dramatic final day at the 109th US Open.

Phil Mickelson, England’s Ross Fisher and even Tiger Woods were in contention at Bethpage Black today as the US Open was blown wide open by a final-round collapse from third-round leader Ricky Barnes.

Ross Fisher kick-started his US Open victory bid with an early birdie to close the gap on leader Ricky Barnes as final-round play resumed at Bethpage Black on Monday.

US Open co-leader Ricky Barnes will resume his bid for major success today confident he can keep his nerves in check over the most important 16 and a half holes of his golfing life.

IT will take Tiger Woods another four weeks at least before he can renew his bid for a 15th major championship and so narrow the gap on Jack Nicklaus at the top of the honours list to three.

Ricky Barnes took a one-shot lead into the final round of the US Open but it could have been so much better for the American at Bethpage Black.

Ricky Barnes further staked his claim to a US Open victory as the third round finally resumed today with the major heading for a first Monday finish since 1983.

The 109th US Open was heading for a first Monday finish since 1983 after more heavy rain fell on the Bethpage Black course overnight.