Three-time winner Tiger Woods followed defending champion Ian Poulter out in the first round of the WGC Match Play Championship in Arizona.
Rory McIlroy made a strong start to the defense of his Dubai Desert Classic title, ending Thursday's opening round in a six-way tie for the lead.
South African Charl Schwartzel coasted to a second successive European Tour victory in his home city on Sunday.
Europe regained the Royal Trophy from Asia as world number seven Henrik Stenson clinched a dramatic victory by holing an seven-foot par putt on the 18th to halve his match with Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee.
Colin Montgomerie's Europe team have battled back to take a 4.5-3.5 lead over Asia into the final day of the Royal Trophy in Thailand.
Australian Robert Allenby ended four years without a win on Sunday, beating defending champion Henrik Stenson at the third extra hole of the Nedbank Challenge in Sun City, South Africa -- his 11th playoff victory in 12 attempts.
Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell underlined their potential as a possible Ryder Cup pairing with a hard-fought four-under-par 68 in Friday's foursomes at the Omega Mission Hills World Cup -- to maintain Ireland's three-stroke lead.
The top four players on the European Tour money list have all avoided each other in the draw for the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain this week.
Henrik Stenson, Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer are all now confirmed for the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain in four weeks' time.
Great Britain and Ireland have extended their lead over Continental Europe to 6-4 on a sun-kissed second day at the Vivendi Trophy, Paris on Friday.
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Sweden's number one golfer Henrik Stenson talks to Living Golf's Justin Armsden about his success on the course.
Top Swedish golfer Henrik Stenson has been speaking to CNN after reaching his 10-year milestone as a European PGA Tour player.
A final round of 66 saw Sweden's Henrik Stenson clinch the PGA U.S. Players Championship at Sawgrass, Florida on Sunday; finishing 12 under par and as the only player without a bogey on his card for the final 18 holes.
Robert-Jan Derksen retained his two-shot lead at the Ballantine's Championship after a controversial third round on Jeju Island with the Dutchman describing conditions as "unplayable and unfair."
Swedish golfer Henrik Stenson carded a solid 69 in the opening round of the WGC-CA Championship but it was his highly unusual recovery shot on the 12th on the Blue Monster course at Doral which raised more than a few eyebrows.
Precocious teenager Rory McIlroy takes a two-shot lead into the final day of the fog-hit Dubai Desert Classic as he chases his first European Tour win.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson heads the Dubai Desert Classic leaderboard at the end of a second day heavily-disrupted by fog.
Geoff Ogilvy surged five places to sixth in the world following his six-stroke triumph at the season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii on Sunday.
South African Louis Oosthuizen carded a flawless seven-under-par round of 65 to claim a three-stroke halfway lead at the Qatar Masters on Friday.
Spanish Ryder Cup player Miguel Angel Jimenez spurned the chance to claim the outright lead after the Qatar Masters first round on Thursday when he missed an eight-foot putt on the last.
Lee Westwood will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the South African Open after he carded a four-under-par 68 to follow his opening 66 and 68 at the Pearl Valley Golf Estates.
Michael Lorenzo-Vera holds the halfway lead in the South African Open after his second round seven-under-par 65 left him two shots clear of the field on 12-under-par 132
Henrik Stenson will take a commanding eight-shot lead into the final 18 holes of the Nedbank Challenge in Sun City, South Africa, after a superb third round on Saturday.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson remained five strokes clear of his rivals before lightning stopped play for the day in Friday's second round of the Nedbank Challenge at the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City.
In-form Swede Henrik Stenson leads the lucrative Nedbank Challenge in South Africa after a first round nine-under 63 at the Gary Player Country Club in Sun City.
Sergio Garcia and Henrik Stenson each sank putts on the final hole on Saturday to reach 10-under and shared the lead after two-rounds of the rain-plagued HSBC Champions tournament.
Newcomer Hunter Mahan and Justin Leonard led the way for America, with an impressive three and two victory over Henrik Stenson and Paul Casey, as the home side won the opening foursomes 3-1 on the first day of the Ryder Cup at Valhalla.
European Ryder Cup captain Nick Faldo inadvertently revealed his likely pairings for the opening foursomes matches against the United States after being caught out by an eagle-eyed press photographer.
Darren Clarke achieved his second victory of the season when he won the KLM Open in the Netherlands by four strokes.
Darren Clarke is in prime position for a first win on the European Tour in five years after an impressive five-under-par 67 in the third round of the BMW Asian Open put him one stroke clear at the top of the leaderboard.
Dutchman Robert-Jan Derksen and Chinese veteran Zhang Lianwei share the halfway lead at the Asian Open after many of the big names failed to master the strong winds at the tight Tomson Pudong course in Shanghai.
Ernie Els charged into the lead after the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic as world number one Tiger Woods saw his hopes of a fifth consecutive win nosedive.
World number one Tiger Woods is targeting a grand slam of majors in 2008 but admits that even he will require a slice of good fortune to achieve an elusive feat.
Australian Adam Scott claimed his second Qatar Masters title with a three-stroke victory over Swede Henrik Stenson after he produced an 11-under-par course record 61 in the final round.
Rookie of the year Martin Kaymer held his nerve during Sunday's final round at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship to claim a maiden European Tour title with a four-stroke victory over Briton Lee Westwood and Sweden's Henrik Stenson.
Germany's Martin Kaymer is one round away from landing his maiden European Tour title after maintaining a six-stroke lead at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship.
European Tour Rookie of the Year Martin Kaymer surged into a six-stroke lead at the halfway stage of the Abu Dhabi Championship after a sizzling seven-under-par 65.
Martin Kaymer, the 2007 Rookie of the Year, began the new year as he ended the last by taking a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Abu Dhabi Championship.
Ernie Els capped a perfect week at Wentworth by claiming his seventh HSBC World Match Play title with a 6 & 4 victory against Angel Cabrera in the final on Sunday.
Ernie Els will face Angel Cabrera in the final of the HSBC World Match Play on Sunday after registering contrasting victories in the semifinals at Wentworth.
Ernie Els kept alive his hopes of a seventh HSBC World Match Play title after marching into the semifinals with another emphatic win at Wentworth.
Jim Furyk's back-to-back Canadian Open titles doesn't even merit a blip on the radar of this season's surprises.
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 6 -- Paul Casey, Padraig Harrington and Jerry Kelly were the only players to break 70 Friday as the 2007 Masters continued to confound the players. The struggles of one man, Tiger Woods, spoke loudest.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Henrik Stenson was one of the popular darkhorse picks for this year's Masters. He did nothing in the first round to prove the prognostigators wrong.
AUGUSTA, Ga.(AP) Last year's Ryder Cup rookies were this year's early leaders at the Masters. Zach Johnson and Henrik Stenson were among the few players shooting under par Thursday during a slow start at Augusta.
Henrik stenson bombs it like Tiger Woods and closes out tournaments like Raymond Floyd, but his on-course demeanor calls to mind an even more iconic figure. With his stoic visage, dark sunglasses and Nordic accent, "he's like the Terminator," says Luke Donald. Last year Stenson, a 30-year-old native of Goteborg, Sweden, made his debut at the Masters as a talented tease who wowed with his skills but had yet to develop a Schwarzenegger-like ability to blow away anybody and anything in his path. To very little fanfare Stenson shot a jittery 74-77 to miss the cut. Since then he has morphed into a ruthless winning machine. In the last 12 months Stenson has vanquished Retief Goosen and Padraig Harrington with an eagle in sudden death at the BMW International Open, holed the clinching putt at the Ryder Cup, mowed down Woods and Ernie Els in a final-round shootout in Dubai, stormed to victory at the Accenture Match Play Championship and surged to No. 5 in the World Ranking. Memo to Augusta National: He'll be bac
ORLANDO, Fla.(AP) Henrik Stenson and Chris DiMarco routed Tiger Woods and John Cook 57-65 in best-ball play Monday to help Lake Nona Golf and Country Club take a 10-0 lead over Isleworth after the first day of the Tavistock Cup.
MIAMI (AP) -- With the Masters right around the corner and his putting stroke lagging behind, Tiger Woods stayed on the practice green for close to an hour after the first round at Doral in a desperate search for a solution.
MIAMI (AP) - One month after Henrik Stenson captured his first World Golf Championship event, he looks as if he's ready for another.
European number one Henrik Stenson is taking great care to live up to his own expectations, and not those of others.
MEXICO CITY -- I am nearing the end of one of the crazier 24-hour stretches of my sportswriting career. Tuesday night I caught a red-eye from Cali to Orlando, proceeding directly from the airport to the swish surroundings of Lake Nona Golf Club for a morning interview with one of the best players in the world, whose identity I'm not at liberty to reveal, at least not yet. Of course, Lake Nona is home to Ernie Els, Henrik Stenson, Retief Goosen, Sergio Garcia, Trevor Immelman, Justin Rose, Ian Poulter and Annika Sorenstam, among others, so it shouldn't be too hard to keep the secret.
It wasn't the outfit. Tiger Woods was wearing a black shirt and hat, with charcoal-gray slacks. It must've been his sinewy arms and buff, V-shaped upper body, and the faster-than-a-speeding-bullet, 341-yard drive he had just launched at the 4th hole of the Gallery at Dove Mountain. Whatever, as Woods strode down the fairway a starstruck fan blurted out, "Wow! He looks like Superman!"
1. Byron Nelson. Eleven in a row will live forever, even if Lord Byron couldn't.
Swede Henrik Stenson overcame fatigue to become the second European to win the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, beating defending champion Geoff Ogilvy of Australia two and one in the final.
South African Trevor Immelman booked his place in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship semifinals with a five and four win over Britain's Justin Rose in Arizona on Saturday.
1. Aaron Baddeley He's always been a great putter, and now he's swinging like a young, less-churlish Steve Elkington. With a monster weekend in Phoenix, Badds nabbed his second Tour win in the last 10 months and immediately enters the conversation of the brightest young talents in golf.
Henrik Stenson, winner of the Dubai Desert Classic victory, has risen into the world's top 10 for the first time on the day that his Ryder Cup team-mate Darren Clarke falls out of the top 50 for the first time in a decade.
Three-times champion Ernie Els was just one stroke behind surprise leader Ross Fisher of Britain when the Dubai Desert Classic second round was completed on Saturday morning.
Alexander the Great wept when there were no new worlds for him to conquer. And as Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy become the first black coaches to take their teams to the Super Bowl, we move a step closer to our own Alexander moment in sports: that instant when we run out of meaningful benchmarks, of significant reasons to say, "No one's ever done that before."
Left-hander Richard Green celebrated Australia Day by joining South African Retief Goosen in a share of the lead after the second round of the Qatar Masters on Friday.
Europe extended their lead over Asia to five points on the second day of the Royal Trophy with two wins and two halves in the fourball pairings on Saturday.
Captains Seve Ballesteros and Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki have confirmed their teams for next month's Asia v Europe Royal Trophy match play event in Bangkok, organizers have revealed.
Sweden's Carl Pettersson and Henrik Stenson, boosted by four birdies in a row around the turn, snatched the lead from overnight pacesetters Argentina in the WGC-World Cup third round on Saturday.
The International team won the inaugural Goodwill Trophy 6 1/2 to 5 1/2, with Australia's Peter Senior securing the winning point with a final hole victory over Bradley Dredge of Wales.
Swedish Ryder Cup player Henrik Stenson birdied five successive holes from the 13th to take a one-stroke lead after two rounds of the Volvo Masters in Sotogrande on Friday.
World number 11 Henrik Stenson of Sweden, a member of Europe's victorious Ryder Cup team, has entered next month's Champions Tournament in Shanghai.
Six European Ryder Cup stars will feature in the 12-man field for the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City in South Africa next month.
Henrik Stenson has been picked for the European team to take on Asia in next year's Royal Trophy in Bangkok, organizers said on Tuesday.
Europe retained the Ryder Cup in emphatic style on Sunday with a dominating singles performance that won the trophy for a record third successive time.
Swedish rookie Henrik Stenson holed a short putt to beat Vaughn Taylor four and three and clinch a record third consecutive Ryder Cup victory for Europe over the United States, at the K Club.
Tiger Woods was in danger of being dropped from a Ryder Cup session for the first time in his career after Europe maintained their stranglehold on the biennial team event on the second day at the K Club.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson eagled the first hole of a three-man sudden-death playoff to claim the BMW International Open title at Nord Eichenried on Sunday.
Swede Henrik Stenson posted a second successive four-under-par 68 to hold a one-shot lead over American Davis Love III early in the second round of the PGA Championship at Medinah on Friday.
Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano announced himself as the next big Spanish talent by winning a playoff against Sweden's Henrik Stenson to claim the Asian Open title in Shanghai.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson shot a one-under-par 71 on Saturday to hold on to his slender lead heading into the final round of the $1.8 million Asian Open in Shanghai.
Swede Henrik Stenson made the most of ideal conditions to record an opening five-under-par 67 to lead the Asian Open in Shanghai by one stroke.
World number 13 Henrik Stenson and revitalised Frenchman Jean Van de Velde are among the challengers for the China Open title at the Nick Faldo-designed Beijing Honghua International Golf Club this week.
Henrik Stenson maintained his lead at the Qatar Masters but a disappointing finish left the door open for the chasing pack after the third round on Saturday.
Argentina's Ricardo Gonzalez and Swede Henrik Stenson share the Qatar Masters lead on six-under-par 66 after Vijay Singh and Ernie Els failed to fire in the first round.
Irishmen Graeme McDowell and Paul McGinley, and Sweden's Henrik Stenson proved Europe's singles heroes as they held off a determined comeback from Asia to win the inaugural Royal Trophy 9-7 in Bangkok.
Welsh duo Bradley Dredge and Stephen Dodd head into Sunday's final round of golf's $4 million World Cup with a two shot lead over England and Sweden.
Britain's Kenneth Ferrie clinched the 14th and final British Open spot available from the European leg of international qualifying after a five-way playoff at Sunningdale Golf Club on Tuesday.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson takes a two-shot cushion into the final round of the Qatar Masters after firing a six-under 66 on Saturday.
Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee is on target to retain his Malaysian Open title after opening up a six-stroke lead.
Henrik Stenson leads The Heritage third round by a stroke from countryman Patrik Sjoland as Swedes dominated the leaderboard on Saturday.
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