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Open 2011: So far very open as seven shots separate field
Two days of tentative probing among the moonscapes of Royal St George's served to shockingly eliminate a good deal of the most favoured names in the 140th Open Championship but left every one of the 70-odd who survived with a reasonable chance of claiming the Claret Jug. (...)
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Open 2011: Bob Torrance believes Stephen Gallacher can be a hit this week
Golf guru Bob Torrance believes there are major champions who would love to hit the ball as purely as Scotland's Stephen Gallacher. (...)
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Open 2011: Success would be special for 'patient' Lee Westwood
Luke Donald comes in to Sandwich with dominating consistency, Rory McIlroy arrives full of youthful vigour and expectation, while the man who has the best recent Open record of all the three favourites is keeping things deliberately low-key. (...)
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Padraig Harrington's praise for Castle Stuart course
Castle Stuart has been typecast as a lamb to the slaughter but there is a growing suspicion that the beguiling new venue for the Barclays Scottish Open has a wolf's bite underneath that cuddly-looking exterior. (...)
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Scottish Open golfers head north to Castle Stuart as links switch pays off
Five of the world's top eight players will compete in next month's Barclays Scottish Open at Castle Stuart — and the Highland public have responded in their thousands to their first European Tour event. (...)
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'Consistency pays' but Luke Donald relishes thought of Wentworth first
It may not be obvious underneath the mild-mannered, usually smiling demeanour, but the man accused of settling for second too often is boiling about so many near things and prepared to put it right at the head of the best ever field for the £4 million BMW PGA Championship this week. (...)
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Kaymer hunting PGA Championship double at Wentworth
A second wave of European success to match that of the 80s crew helmed by the late Seve Ballesteros and featuring his mentor Bernhard Langer is on the way, believes world number three Martin Kaymer as he bids for a unique PGA Championship double at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth this week. (...)
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Carnoustie Links golfers club together for Chloe and Ayley's surgery
Carnoustie Links staff have teed up a double fund-raising boost for Angus twins. (...)
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Alan Tait launches Scottish golf circuit Optical Express Tour
Former European Tour player Alan Tait is attempting for a third time to establish an independent golf circuit in Scotland. (...)
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Tiger Woods spitting outrage 'over with'
European Tour executive director George O'Grady has sympathy with Tiger Woods having cameras follow his every move but agreed with the "outrage" in Europe over the golfing superstar's spitting incident in the Dubai Desert Classic last week. (...)
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Barclays Scottish Open to head for Castle Stuart Golf Links
European Tour golf will come to the Highlands for the first time this July with the confirmation that the Barclays Scottish Open will move from Loch Lomond to the Castle Stuart Golf Links near Inverness. (...)
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John Parry moves into gear at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship
John Parry's Vauxhall Astra doesn't quite match up to some of the gleaming specimens in the players' car park at St Andrews, but the 23-year-old Englishman could be trading up to a Rolls Royce with change to pay for a chauffeur if he maintains his commanding lead in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. (...)
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Europe's Ryder Cup heroes back Jose Maria Olazabal as 2012 captain
Spain's Jose Maria Olazabal is the clear front-runner to replace Colin Montgomerie as Europe's Ryder Cup captain for the next series of matches in 2012 if he can battle back from rheumatism for a second time. (...)
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Team Europe hold on for Celtic Manor victory
Graeme McDowell was so nervous he could barely hold his club on the final nine holes of the last match of this gruelling, elongated, rain-lashed Ryder Cup. (...)
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Montgomerie to go for broke in Ryder Cup singles
Colin Montgomerie hailed "one of the greatest days in the history of European golf" and unveiled a singles line-up designed to win the final session outright and secure the Ryder Cup. (...)
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Europeans reign supreme after stunning Ryder Cup comeback
Colin Montgomerie's Europe found a crock of gold at the end of the rainbow over Celtic Manor after a stunning comeback left Europe in command for the extra day's play at the 38th Ryder Cup on Monday. (...)
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Americans have edge at rain-lashed Ryder Cup
The years of growing expectation and fever pitch excitement for the 2010 Ryder Cup dissolved into seven and a quarter hours of frustratingly sodden delay as the first day at Celtic Manor only just avoided a complete washout. (...)
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Colin Montgomerie has the chance to cement his Ryder Cup legacy
The early noises are probably audible from Celtic Manor back to his home in Dunning, as European captain Colin Montgomerie appears to have the force of destiny behind his campaign to lead the recapture of the Ryder Cup for Europe this weekend. (...)
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Padraig Harrington seeks Dunhill Links Championship hat-trick
Two-time Open champion Padraig Harrington is aiming to bounce straight from a European Ryder Cup win to complete a hat-trick of Alfred Dunhill Links titles at St Andrews next week. (...)
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Colin Montgomerie to play Alfred Dunhill Links Championship
European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie is the latest big name to confirm his place at the 10th Alfred Dunhill Links Championship next month. (...)
