CHRIS Campbell and Mark Lamb open their challenge for an Asian Tour card in stage one of the qualifying school in Thailand today.

THAT jaw-dropping Sunday afternoon at Royal St George's in 2003, when the penny finally dropped it was Ben Curtis, and not Thomas Bjorn or Tiger Woods or Vijay Singh or Da

IF GOLF in the Auld Toun has always been provocative, the ideal that each hole should be an adventure endures at the Castle. The seventh course opened by the St Andrews Links

GOLF having taken something of a back seat recently, what with the frantic festivities and extreme cold, I have spent more time than usual contemplating the first tee from the

SCOTTISH GOLF'S GOLDEN GIRLS PART TWO: SALLY WATSON AND MICHELE THOMSON

OUR correspondent ponders some amusing, if sadly unlikely, possibilities for the golf world in 2009

KRYSTLE Caithness is a modest individual. But with three points out of three from the Curtis Cup and a top-six finish in the Women's World Amateur Championship the teenage

IT HAS been quite a year for Carly Booth. As a 15-year-old at St Andrews in June, she became the youngest-ever Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup player. She then added to h

JOHN Daly has admitted he has been suspended for six months by the PGA Tour for conduct that brought unwelcome publicity, including a night in a North Carolina jail to sober

AS HE prepares for his 13th season as a professional – the Scot won his tour card at the first attempt in 1995 – Stephen Gallacher believes he's become a more complete gol

SITTING in the strange half-light which follows intensive celebrations – known to aficionados as Post-Excess Paralysis (PEP) – I was gazing hopelessly at a Carry On fi

JUST ABOUT eight feet it was. A cup outside the right edge and slightly downhill. And he holed it; dead centre, passing what was the ultimate test of nerve rather than mere e

TEN years ago, Padraig Harrington finished 32nd in the US Open at the Olympic club in San Francisco and concluded his best wasn't going to be good enough to win major cham

MHAIRI McKay, one of three Scottish golfers on the US-based LPGA Tour, will miss most of next season as she is expecting her first baby at the beginning of May.

CALLUM Macaulay returned to Scottish soil yesterday confident he has laid down solid foundations for a productive rookie season on the European Tour.

VIJAY Singh's victory on Sunday in the Chevron World Challenge, the tournament hosted by Tiger Woods in California, may not have added to the Fijian's haul of 22 offic

RICHIE Ramsay led the Scots in the South African Open after the closing round at the Pearl Valley estate in Paarl yesterday.

THINGS don't get any clearer as time goes by. From abroad – Australia if memory serves, which it often doesn't – comes the news that school exam papers are no longer

LEE Westwood will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the South African Open at the Pearl Valley Golf Estates today after he carded a four-under-par 68 for a total o

IT'S awards time again as we dish out the alternative gongs for the best and the worst of the golfing year

WHAT WAS the most revealing part of the Steve Williams saga that erupted in America last week? Was it that Tiger Woods' caddie harbours animosity towards his boss's g

SCOTTISH women's golf has suffered a blow with the disappearance of the Scottish Ladies' Open from next year's record-breaking £11million schedule.

RICHIE Ramsay lost ground on the leaders during the second round of the South African Open at the Pearl Valley estate in Paarl.

SEVE Ballesteros has begun a course of chemotherapy as he continues his recovery from a brain tumour. Ballesteros returned to his home in northern Spain yesterday from Madrid,

MICHAEL Lorenzo-Vera holds the lead halfway through the South African Open after his second round score of seven-under-par 65 left him two shots clear of the field.