NICK DOUGHERTY’S dream of a first head-to-head with Tiger Woods was close to becoming reality after the second round of the HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai.

THE inherent difficulty of the annual end-of-season European Tour School assumed new proportions yesterday for Dubliner Stephen Browne.

SCOTLAND'S Sam Torrance returns to the European Seniors Tour today looking to turn up the heat on Order of Merit leader Carl Mason of England in one of Continental Europe's golfing hotspots, the Algarve.