Those of you who like counting down to a big event will be pleased to hear that it is only 500 days until the Ryder Cup swings into action at Gleneagles.
His spat with Sergio Garcia generated headlines around the world, but Tiger Woods was soon focusing on the thing that matters most following his victory in the Players Championship.
Robert MacIntyre, the Oban left-hander, produced a final-round surge last night to claim the biggest win of his young career in the Golf Data Lab Scottish Youths' Open Championship at Lanark.
Glenbervie's Graeme Robertson claimed the first-round lead in the Irish Men's Open Amateur Championship at Royal Dublin GC yesterday, helped along the way by the first hole in one of his career, writes Colin Farquharson.
Rory McIlroy has yet to make a cut in three appearances in the Players' Championship but put himself firmly on course to break that duck this weekend after his opening round.
The curious case surrounding Vijay Singh and his use of deer antler spray took another twist last night when he filed a law suit against the PGA Tour over its handling of the affair.
Tiger Woods may get the red carpet treatment wherever he goes but that will be of little help to the world No.1 at TPC Sawgrass, site of this week's Players' Championship.
Colin Montgomerie was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in Florida last night but there was plenty of talk behind the scenes as the big Scot took his place among the game's greats.
Scotland's Walker Cup hopefuls will be aiming to shine in front of the selectors this weekend as the amateur game's first major of the season, the Lytham Trophy, takes place over the Royal Lytham & St Annes links.
Tim Finchem, the PGA Tour commissioner, admits the issue of deer antler spray is "kind of silly" after Vijay Singh was cleared of a doping offence despite admitting to using a substance that cannot be detected.
Golf's governing bodies have backed Masters officials over their decision not to disqualify Tiger Woods for signing for an incorrect score at Augusta National.
Guan Tianlang may have made history at the Masters, but his status as the youngest player in European Tour history will disappear in the Volvo China Open today.
The PGA Tour has cleared three-time major winner Vijay Singh of doping offences after the World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed the deer antler spray the Fijian admitted to using was not "prohibited unless a positive test results".
THE Japanese veteran Masashi 'Jumbo' Ozaki achieved a rare feat yesterday when the 66-year-old beat his age by shooting a pace-setting nine-under-par 62 in the first round of the Tsuruya Open at the Yamanohara Golf Club near Osaka.
Marc Warren suffered another painful tumble from the golfing racehorse last Sunday but the Glasgow man is back in the saddle and eager to be first past the post in this week's Ballantine's Championship in Korea.
When the male-only membership of Augusta National took a collective deep gulp and handed over green jackets to two women last summer, the move seemed to have the same kind of earth-shuddering impact not seen since the dinosaurs were flattened by an asteroid.
Peter Dawson, the chief executive of the Royal & Ancient, last night insisted that the Open Championship would continue to be staged at clubs which have an all-male membership.