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The "guess who?" palaver surrounding Europe's next Ryder Cup captain has had all the twists and turns of a matchplay tie itself.

Scott Jamieson can pack his bags for next month's WGC-Accenture Match-Play Championship despite the disappointment of letting a victory slip in the Volvo Champions yesterday.

Scott Jamieson is hoping to finally get his hands on a trophy by muscling his way to a Durban double in the Volvo Champions event.

It's nice work if you can get it.

There is no doubt in Duncan Stewart's mind that the driving force behind his successful 2012 campaign was his decision at the start of the year to sell shares in himself as a pro golfer, with the promise that those who invested in him, and thus gave him the financial backing he needed, would be paid a dividend from his winnings at the end of the season.

Rory McIlroy has taken to the practice range in Dubai ahead of his European Tour opener next week in nearby Abu Dhabi but it is the rival PGA Tour which is set to reap the rewards of McIlroy's financial magnetism.

I t will be safe to assume that nobody goes drouthy in Scott Jamieson's household over the Christmas period.

On those care-free occasions, far removed from the huffing and puffing that takes place on the golf course, you could get Colin Montgomerie talking about anything.

For the rest of his career – and maybe the rest of his life – Marc Warren will never be able to forget Sunday, July 15, 2012.

Colin Montgomerie, in charge of Europe when they won the last home match at Celtic Manor two years ago and a member of Bernard Gallacher's side that faced the Tom Watson team in 1993, called the appointment "very wise", but believes there is now a lot of pressure on him.

In the build-up to the eagerly anticipated announcement of Team USA's next captain for the 2014 Ryder Cup, Ted Bishop, the president of the PGA of America, had promised "something a little different." The venue for yesterday's unveiling was the 80th floor of the Empire State Building in New York.

Apart from panic buying, cheap decorations and office parties shrouded in alcohol-fuelled intrigue, there's nothing that signals the onset of Christmas like the Sports Personality of the Year awards.

Greig Hutcheon, the Tartan Tour's order of merit winner this season, has his eyes on a few prizes in this week's Titleist PGA Play-offs in Turkey.

After two years of golfing frustration and an absence from the winner's circle despite several close calls, life has just got much better for Graeme McDowell in recent weeks, both on and off the course.