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Cabrera wins Green Jacket after play-off

Argentina’s Angel Cabrera won his second major championship with a nerve-jangling playoff victory at the US Masters on Sunday.

Mickelson, Els to lead field at Loch Lomond

World number two Phil Mickelson, third-ranked Ernie Els and fourth-ranked Adam Scott will lead a strong field in the Scottish Open at Loch Lomond in July. Mickelson and Els, a…

Spaniard Garcia sets pace at breezy Sawgrass

Spaniard Sergio Garcia, steadily regaining confidence in his putting, took advantage of an early tee-off time to seize a two-stroke lead in the Players Championship first round…

Trevor Immelman — master of his universe

For someone who’s on top of the world, Trevor Immelman has lately spent a lot of time looking up. One day after becoming the Masters champion, Immelman was courtside at Madison…

Who will finish runner-up to Tiger?

One of the many joys attached to attending the Masters is watching the local television coverage. The biggest joy of all is the now established tradition that, starting on Monday…

Tiger sets out on road to Grand Slam glory

Tiger Woods opens his quest for an unprecedented Grand Slam of golf at Augusta National on Thursday, carrying the lowest odds ever for a player at the outset of a Major. The…

Woods advances at match-play championship

Tiger Woods needed 20 holes to subdue Australian Aaron Baddeley on Friday and reach the quarterfinals of the -million WGC Accenture Match-Play Championship. It was the second…

Golf looks back on long-overdue triumphs

As much as golf looked the same in 2007, some of the greatest triumphs were long overdue. Until a dramatic and calamitous Sunday on the cruel links of Carnoustie, the only time…

Els suffers second-round meltdown in Singapore

Ernie Els’s miserable week continued with a second-round collapse at the Singapore Open on Friday, the South African’s 76 leaving him six-over for the tournament and likely to…

Mickelson, KJ Choi in the hunt at Singapore Open

Phil Mickelson made a smooth transition to the rigours of Asian golf on Thursday to lurk two off the pace alongside KJ Choi after the opening round of the Barclays Singapore…

Cabrera captures PGA Grand Slam crown

United States Open winner Angel Cabrera forced a play-off with an 18th-hole eagle, then birdied the third extra hole on Wednesday to beat Irishman Padraig Harrington and capture…

Harrington leads PGA Grand Slam in Bermuda

British Open champion Padraig Harrington had little time to enjoy the turquoise coastline below the Mid-Ocean Club, struggling to a three-under 67 and a one-shot lead on Tuesday…

Million-pound cheque goes Els’s way

Ernie Els rejuvenated his stalled career with an emphatic record seventh victory in the final of the World Match-Play Championship on Wentworth’s West Course on Sunday. A…

Els closer to seventh world match-play title

Ernie Els moved a step closer to the million-pound winner’s cheque and an unprecedented seventh world match-play title at Wentworth, following a hard-fought semifinal victory…

Els on course in world match-play

Ernie Els of South Africa remained on course for a seventh world match-play championship, with a six and five victory over Andres Romero of Argentina at Wentworth that booked a…

US take command at Presidents Cup

Three tense last-hole foursomes triumphs on Thursday sparked the United States to a 5½ to ½ edge over the Internationals at the Presidents Cup, matching the largest…