No one was happier than world number six Ernie Els after protégé Louis Oosthuizen cantered to a seven-shot victory at the Open Championship.
Tiger Woods will try to prove that his lurid sex scandal has not shattered his championship form when the Open Championship begins on Thursday.
Golf’s greatest players gathered on Monday for practice rounds in St Andrews ahead of Thursday’s start of the Open Championship.
Padraig Harrington became the first European in over a century to retain the Open Championship title with a gutsy final round on Sunday.
Rewired Greg Norman emerged from a day of high winds and high drama at Royal Birkdale on Saturday to lead the Open Championship after three rounds.
KJ Choi is two rounds away from becoming the first Asian to win a Major after knocking Greg Norman off the top of the Open Championship leaderboard.
Walk towards the Royal Birkdale course and you pass banners welcoming the world to the 2008 Open Championship that show Tiger Woods mid-swing.
Sergio Garcia is from Spain, and Ernie Els hails from South Africa, but both feel right at home on the north-west coast of England.
Ernie Els has offered an insight into the impact that his son Ben’s diagnosis with autism has had, admitting that golf is no longer the priority.