A golfer at the Senior Open Championship has apologised after making offensive remarks on Twitter.

Four-time Major winner Ernie Els returns to Muirfield next week to defend his British Open title confessing if it were not for golf, he’d be selling hot dogs on a South African beach.

The record books will show that Ernie Els won the Open Championship the last time it was staged at Muirfield in 2002, beating Thomas Levet in sudden death after an initial four-man, four-hole play-off also involving Steve Elkington and Stuart Appleby.

NOT everyone has been as enamoured with this stretch of Kent coastline as William Laidlaw Purves was when he first envisaged a golf links on the humps and hillocks just outside Sandwich in the 1880s.

ANOTHER major ended in anticlimax for Tiger Woods last night as a wide-open USPGA Championship built towards an exciting conclusion at Whistling Straits without the world number one.

The second round of the United States PGA Championship was spared a third fog delay and was able to resume on time at 7am at Whistling Straits today.

American Omar Uresti and South Africa’s Rory Sabbatini topped a congested leaderboard after the first round of the Turning Stone Resort Championship at Verona, New York.

Joe Durant moved two shots clear of the his nearest rival with a five-under-par 66 in the second round of the PGA Tour Mayakoba Golf Classic on Friday.

Bubba Watson shot a 10-under-par 62 to take the lead as the second round finally got played at the rain-hit Bob Hope Classic in California.

European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie has backed “four or five” of his potential 2010 team to secure top-10 finishes at this week’s US PGA Championship in Minnesota.

Thomas Bjorn and Thomas Levet, both runners-up in The Open in the last seven years, are among 96 players at Sunningdale tomorrow competing for 10 places at Turnberry next month.

Defending champion Sergio Garcia made a strong start as The Players Championship got under way at TPC Sawgrass today.

Muirfield in Scotland will host the 2013 Open, it was announced today.

Woody Austin, Nicholas Thompson, Briny Baird and Peter Lonard were tied on eight under par at the close of play on a weather-interrupted third day at the Zurich Classic.

Dean Wilson reaped the benefits of a break as he claimed the early lead at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans with a first-round 66.

Woody Austin and Mark Calcavecchia captured the Merrill Lynch Shootout with a one-shot victory over Greg Norman and Bubba Watson last night.

Colin Montgomerie has to take on record six-time winner Ernie Els in the opening round of the HSBC World Match Play Championship at Wentworth on Thursday.

One of the more outrageous birdies of his career – and there have been an awful lot of them – propelled Phil Mickelson into the lead in the Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond today.

Bradley Dredge is not going to next week’s US Open, but Wales will still be represented there – by 22-year-old amateur Rhys Davies.

JACK NICKLAUS believes that Killeen Castle in Meath could one day host the Ryder Cup — well he would say that, he’s designing the course.

Padraig Harrington was trailing leader Phil Mickelson by two strokes midway through the third round of the Nissan Open in California.

Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, Luke Donald and Phil Mickelson were part of an amazing 10-way tie for the lead at the US PGA championship in Chicago today.

Phil Mickelson drew back level with Tiger Woods and Chris DiMarco got off to a flying start as well when the United States PGA championship resumed in Chicago today.

Australians Steve Elkington and Mark Hensby have taken the number of withdrawals from the US PGA Championship at Medinah to eight.

Phil Mickelson won the Masters in April after romping to a 13-shot victory the previous Sunday. Things are rather different for his attempt to make a successful defence of the US PGA championship at Medinah in Chicago this week. He has just missed his first halfway cut of the year.

The start of the 135th British Open championship was delayed by 30 minutes this morning at Hoylake.

Britons Lee Westwood and Greg Owen were among 12 players today handed a start in next month’s Open championship.

Colin Montgomerie insists he can still win a major and heads to next month’s Open full of confidence despite his last-hole collapse in the United States on Sunday.

The groin injury which kept Australian Steve Elkington out of the Players Championship two weeks ago has also resulted in his withdrawal from the Masters starting on Thursday.

Those wondering what had happened to Bernhard Langer since he captained Europe to their record-breaking Ryder Cup win two years ago now know.

Pádraig Harrington was the only Irishman still standing at the Accenture World Match Play championship as Tiger Woods broke another record at La Costa near San Diego today.

PADRAIG HARRINGTON was the only Irishman still standing on a day when there was no keeping Tiger Woods out of the headlines when the Accenture World Match Play championship began at La Costa near San Diego.

Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell faces a match against Tiger Woods after squeezing into the 64-man field for next week’s Accenture world match play championship at La Costa near San Diego.

THE best golf shots by major champions are not always the most memorable.

A REJUVENATED Colin Montgomerie still believes he can win a major and is desperate for the new season to start so he can prove how much his game has improved.

Colin Montgomerie was battling to hold on to the lead in the American Express Championship as Tiger Woods made an explosive move up the leaderboard.

Colin Montgomerie was today battling to hold on to the lead on the second day of the American Express Championship in San Francisco.

New Zealand golfer Michael Campbell flew to America today £1m (€1.47m) richer - thanks in part to a heart-to-heart talk with his wife Julie earlier this year.

Paul McGinley, two wins away from a £1m (€1.47m) bonanza, made the start he was looking for in the HSBC World Match Play semi-finals at Wentworth today.

THE man who stopped Paul McGinley winning nearly €680,000 in May now blocks his path to the £1 million (€1.48m) first prize at the HSBC World Match Play championship.

The man who stopped Paul McGinley winning nearly £460,000 (€679,000)) in May now blocks his path to the £1m (€1.46m) first prize at the HSBC World Match Play championship.

Paul McGinley has seen off Luke Donald nine and eight in the World Matchplay Championship at Wentworth.

Retief Goosen equalled his own championship record when he demolished Australian Mark Hensby 12 and 11 to reach his first HSBC World Match Play semi-final at Wentworth today.