Webb Simpson stormed to his first win of 2013 at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open by six strokes in Las Vegas.

Rory McIlroy is hoping the old racing adage about horses for courses holds true this week when he returns to action in the Wells Fargo Championship on the PGA US Tour in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Covered for three days by a ferocious dark sky, pounded with relentless rain, and advertised by many in the press as potentially the worst Major championship in 25 years, the 94th US PGA Championship had a stunning metamorphosis in yesterday’s opening round.

Graeme McDowell is quietly confident a decision to journey from Orlando, Florida to Akron, Ohio via Kiawah Island, South Carolina will lead to glory later next week along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline.

Second-ranked Rory McIlroy is with 2010 champion Louis Oosthuizen and reigning USPGA champion Keegan Bradley at the Open Championship.

Former world number one Tiger Woods sent out an ominous warning to the golf world ahead of the US Open, declaring he feels as good as he has done in years after winning the Memorial Tournament in Ohio.

Spencer Levin shot a three-under-par 69 to lead by one at the end of the third round of the Memorial Tournament as Tiger Woods battled to stay in contention.

For the third time in 10 years, Padraig Harrington will have to beat an Augusta jinx to become Masters champion.

Padraig Harrington today became the first player to win a hat-trick of par three titles at The Masters – but just like his first victory in 2003 he had to share the honour.

Ernie Els will not be at this week’s Masters – even if Augusta National decide to offer him a last-minute invitation.

Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood kept alive their hopes of securing the world No 1 ranking when they cruised into the last 16 of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

A struggling Tiger Woods was forced to hole a nine-foot par putt on the 18th to see off Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez Castano as Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke crashed out in the first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play at Dove Mountain.

Luke Donald is set to start his Accenture Match Play title defence against former world number one Ernie Els in Tucson on Wednesday.

YOU could draw a strong similarity in the pitching and rolling of the boat Darren Clarke was aboard last Monday and the rocking nature of the unique 17th hole island green at the Amata Spring Country Club at this week’s Thailand Golf Championship.

ONE of the first aspects on the agenda of Horizon Sports Conor Ridge in managing the affairs of Rory McIlroy has been to curb the ‘madness’ of his client’s heavy end-of-season schedule.

UNBEKNOWN to Pádraig Harrington, there was a hardback book on the shelf in the Chart Room of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club entitled ‘Challenge’.

RORY MCILROY revealed he will pledge €75,000 of his savings to the Japan earthquake and tsunami appeal when he tees up alongside Japanese golfing heartthrob Ryo Ishikawa on Monday in Yokohama.

The hug said it all today as Tiger Woods yet again clinched another Presidents Cup victory for the United States.

Tiger Woods still has to prove he was worth a wild card for this week’s Presidents Cup – but America still lead by two points.

Tiger Woods suffered the biggest match play defeat of his life today - but it was still the Americans who began the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne much the better.

The highly-anticipated match-up between Tiger Woods and Adam Scott will happen on the opening day of the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne.

RORY McILROY’S hopes of a second Major championship victory in three starts hung in the balance last night after the US Open winner injured his wrist during his opening round at the 93rd PGA Championship.

IT wasn’t on the first ball that caused a splash, nor was it on the next one. But at the par-three 17th — Ryo Ishikawa’s eighth hole — when his tee shot fell short and for a swim with the fish, the thought occurred.

Tiger Woods went in two lakes and 11 bunkers as he totally wasted what had earlier been a flying start to the USPGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club.

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.

Adam Scott used all his experience – and that of Tiger Woods’s former caddie Steve Williams – to capture his first world title tonight.

A storming finish took Australian Adam Scott back into the lead with a round to go at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron today.

RORY McILROY will get his bid for back-to-back major victories under way at Royal St George’s on Thursday in the company of a former champion and a fellow rising star.

Rory McIlroy will not have to wait long to begin his bid to become the youngest Open champion since 1893 at Sandwich this week.

USPGA champion Martin Kaymer has warned Rory McIlroy against comparing himself to Tiger Woods.

Jim McCabe and Simon Lewis argue both sides of the debate

Open champion Louis Oosthuizen, Australian Aaron Baddeley and Korean Noh Seung-yul complete the 24-man field for next week’s Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain.

GRAEME McDOWELL will have another chance to get one over on Tiger Woods starting tomorrow after the pair were grouped together for the first two rounds of the Masters in yesterday’s draw.

Martin Kaymer is making no bold predictions about staying as golf’s world number one for months or years – but he is clearly in no mood to relinquish the position yet.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON and Rory McIlroy were in the mix before poor light stopped play in the weather- delayed WGC-Cadillac Championship in Miami.

Rory McIlroy believes the influx of young talent into the game means the sport is set for an exciting future.

Ernie Els is expected to be back in action at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson on Wednesday after a sore neck kept him out of last week’s Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles.

Ian Poulter is set to start the defence of his WGC-Accenture Match Play title against 2009 Open champion Stewart Cink if all the world’s top 64 show up in Tucson next week.

The opening day of the Royal Trophy ended honours even as defending champions Europe drew 2-2 with Asia in today’s foursomes.

Michio Matsumura triumphed in a three-way play-off to win the Coca-Cola Tokai Classic today.

England's Ross Fisher erupted into life again with a 61 in Killarney today - and he needed nobody to tell him it could have been an historic 59.

EASY as it is to get lost in wonderment as to how this guy from South Africa, Louis Ooosthuizen, snuck up on us, the intrigue with which we depart the Auld Gray Toon is plentiful enough to spread out over a number of topics.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON was already in good spirits when he was informed that he would play the first two rounds of the 150th Open Championship with 60-year-old Tom Watson and Ryo Ishikawa, 18. While Harrington has been a long time fan and admirer of Watson, he has also seen enough of Iskikawa to believe he is another Watson in the making.