Golf

• Tiger Woods faces threat to world number one ranking
• 06th August 2010
  Tiger Woods will face two challenges to his world number one ranking when he defends his WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio on Thursday. Phil Mickelson will depose him with a win, or a top-four finish if Woods were to finish outside the top 37. Lee Wes...

• Bubba Watson shines in Ohio as Tiger Woods wobbles
• 06th August 2010
  Bubba Watson fired a first-round 64 to lead the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational by two shots as Tiger Woods looked set to lose his world number one ranking. Watson carded seven birdies with Phil Mickelson, Graeme McDowell, Kenny Perry and Adam Scott two behi...

• Phil Mickelson misses cut at Scottish Open
• 11th July 2010
  Phil Mickelson missed the cut at the Scottish Open, allowing Tiger Woods to remain as world number one. Mickelson, chasing a top-two finish to overtake Woods, toiled in the rain and hit a quintuple bogey nine on 18 to end a shot outside the two-over cut m...

• Seve Ballesteros scraps Open visit on medical advice
• 27th June 2010
  Seve Ballesteros has pulled out of a visit to St Andrews for next month's 150th Open on medical advice. The 53-year-old former Ryder Cup captain has had health problems since suffering a brain tumour in 2008. "I am aware that there might be people w...

• Tiger Woods to play in Irish pro-am before Open
• 10th June 2010
  World number one Tiger Woods will fine tune his game ahead of the Open at a pro-am event in Ireland next month. Woods heads a high-quality line-up at the 5-6 July JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am at Adare Manor in Co Limerick. "Like my own Foundation,...

• Colin Montgomerie aims to extend Open qualifying record
• 07th June 2010
  Colin Montgomerie found some form at Celtic Manor to give himself a much-needed boost as he attempts to qualify for his 21st consecutive Open. The Ryder Cup-captaining Scot will be among 96 players chasing 10 places at St Andrews in a 36-hole qualifying e...

• Tiger Woods happy to continue playing without coach
• 03rd June 2010
  Tiger Woods has no plans to appoint a new coach for himself as he prepares to defend his title at the Memorial Tournament, which starts on Thursday. Hank Haney resigned as the world number one's coach of six years earlier this month, citing the scandal in...

• Tiger Woods set to compete in the Open at St Andrews
• 18th May 2010
  Tiger Woods will play in the Open at St Andrews in July if he recovers from the neck injury that forced him to withdraw from the Players Championship in May. The world number one pulled out during the final round at Sawgrass and has not indicated when he ...

• Seve Ballesteros says he is ready to play at St Andrews
• 16th May 2010
  Seve Ballesteros says he is looking forward to playing at St Andrews in a four-hole commemorative event on the eve of the Open Championship in July. The Spanish legend, who has undergone four operations since being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2008, i...

• Hank Haney resigns as Tiger Woods' swing coach
• 11th May 2010
  Tiger Woods' swing coach Hank Haney has resigned, leaving the world number one without one of his top advisers as he tries to rebuild his game. Haney said in a statement he had enjoyed working with Woods but believed it was now time for him to step aside....

• Neck injury sees Tiger Woods quit Players Championship
• 10th May 2010
  Tiger Woods withdrew from the Players Championship after seven holes of the final round because of a neck injury. He called over an official following his tee-shot and although he hit his second, he then shook hands with partner Jason Bohn and left the co...

• Tiger Woods braced for defeat in rankings battle
• 05th May 2010
  Tiger Woods has admitted his status as world number one is under threat at the Players Championship in Florida. Long-time rival Phil Mickelson will overtake him if he wins at Sawgrass and Woods finishes outside of the top five. "I've had it happen b...

• Wayward Tiger Woods misses cut at Quail Hollow
• 01st May 2010
  Tiger Woods missed the cut for only the sixth time in his professional career after a horrendous second-round back nine at the Quail Hollow Championship. The world number one, who started day two on two over, began with a birdie on the first hole in North...

• St Andrews' Road Hole lengthened for 2010 Open
• 28th April 2010
  St Andrews' famous and notoriously difficult Road Hole has increased in length for the 150th anniversary of the Open Championship in 2010. A new tee has stretched the 17th hole by 40 yards, five more than announced last year to 495, to prevent shorter...