The Players Championship - regarded by many as golf's unofficial fifth major - kicks off today at Sawgrass in the US where Lefty (pictured) will be defending his 2007 title.  The world's best players will be competing for the title and for once they won't have to beat Tiger!

Paul Mahoney watched in awe as the old ‘uns rolled back the years at Augusta last month.

More than 100 Merseyside cabbies will take the ‘golfing’ knowledge courtesy of the UK’s only PGA national residential golf academy, Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa.

Jose Maria Olazabal has admitted he’s unlikely to make September's Ryder Cup team. The two-time US Masters champion, 42, is Nick Faldo's vice-captain for the Kentucky event, and has recently returned to competitive action after persistent problems with rheumatism cut short his 2007 season.

European Solheim Cup captain Alison Nicholas has named Sweden’s Liselotte Neumann and England’s Joanne Morley as her assistant captains for the 2009 match.

The Faldo Series has expanded to cover Russia and South America. The new Faldo Series Russia championship will complete the season’s continental European schedule, bringing the total number of non-British tournaments in that region to four.