Hunter Mahan, the man whose defeat to Graeme McDowell decided the last Ryder Cup, raced into the semi-finals of the Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson today.

Rory McIlroy today began his bid to become the youngest Open champion since 1893, but it was veterans Mark Calcavecchia and Thomas Bjorn who were making the early headlines.

Graeme McDowell shared the lead with Nick Watney after day three of the Players Championship at Sawgrass today.

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.

Graeme McDowell today slumped to an eight-over-par 80 in the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.

Lee Westwood had left it too late to make a challenge for the WGC-Cadillac Championship, but he was giving his confidence a boost in Miami today.

Luke Donald's dream start to the new season continued today when he charged back into contention for a second world title in three weeks.

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.

Fourteen birdies between them in just 10 holes were still not enough to make Europe’s world leaders Martin Kaymer, Lee Westwood and Luke Donald the overnight pacesetters in Miami.

Tiger Woods is out of the WGC-Accenture Match Play already, beaten on the first extra hole by Dane Thomas Bjorn in today’s opening round.

Frost delayed the start of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship for 30 minutes in Tucson today.

Paul Casey is in position in Chicago to make his exclusion from the Ryder Cup look a huge mistake by Colin Montgomerie.

Ian Poulter has taken a Ryder Cup mentality into this week's BMW Championship in Chicago - and so far it seems to be working.

The second event of the FedEx Cup play-off series was bracing itself today for the possibility of disruption caused by Hurricane Earl.

Paul Casey may feel down in the dumps, but he has moved up in the world.

A month after finishing sixth in The Masters, 50-year-old Fred Couples is in Texas tomorrow trying to qualify for The Open at St Andrews, the course on which he came joint third behind Tiger Woods and Colin Montgomerie in 2005.

Tiger Woods dug deep to avoid a repeat of his Quail Hollow horror show when the £6.2m (€7.2m) Players Championship, golf’s richest event, began at Sawgrass in Florida today.

TIGER WOODS has avoided rival Phil Mickelson in the draw for the opening two days of the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte as both men return to action for the first time since the Masters.

Scot Martin Laird is up to 84th in the world after his fourth-placed finish at the US Tour-opening SBS Championship in Hawaii.

American Chris Riley carded a second-round 63 to surge to the top of the leaderboard in the Wyndham Championship.

Jerry Kelly ended seven years without a victory when he captured the Zurich Classic of New Orleans by a single stroke last night.

American Jerry Kelly, who walked off the course last week after taking 10 on one hole, was the early clubhouse leader on the second day of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans today.

Rising star Rory McIlroy became a victim of Jack Nicklaus’s famous “Bear Trap” in the first round of the Honda Classic in Florida today.

Scot Martin Laird said it would be 'obscene' to even think about making the European Ryder Cup team after moving to the top of the Wyndham Championship leaderboard on seven under par.

Not one of the world's top 20 is in the field for the US Tour's Bob Hope Chrysler Classic starting over three courses at La Quinta in California tomorrow.