Lorena Ochoa overcame a three-stroke deficit to win the Samsung World Championship, denying Annika Sorenstam a sixth victory at the event in Palm Desert, California.

Val Guest, the versatile British director and screenwriter best known for directing science-fiction classics The Quatermass Xperiment and The Day the Earth Caught Fire, has died. He was 94.

AMERICAN journeyman Bart Bryant upstaged world number one Tiger Woods by cruising to a six-shot victory in the season-ending Tour Championship on Sunday.

Teenage sensation Michelle Wie and Women’s British Open champion Jeong Jang could both make history next year by trying to qualify for the Open Championship at Hoylake.

Michelle Wie shrugged off the hype and admitted she was just “really excited” about making her professional debut in the Samsung World Championship, starting at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert, California, tomorrow.

THE biggest marketing feeding frenzy in women’s golf is to be unleashed today as teenage prodigy Michelle Wie turns pro — a week before her 16th birthday.

Annika Sorenstam, the No. 1 player in women's golf and one of the most famous female athletes in the world, has filed for divorce from David Esch, her husband of eight years.

Howard Keel, the broad-shouldered baritone who romanced his way through a series of glittering MGM musicals such as Showboat, Kiss Me Kate and Annie Get Your Gun and later revived his career on TV soap Dallas, has died of colon cancer.