Ian Woosnam

Welcome to Wayne's world

THIS is the view Wayne and Coleen Rooney will get from the luxury £7m holiday home they are having built in Barbados - rolling emerald fairway, pristine bunkers and the blue Caribbean. The couple have bought a one-acre plot on...

Is this the world's highest par-3?

Tee off from the top of a mountain Some of the Miss World contestants had a putting lesson The 'Extreme 19th' hole at the shortly to be opened Legend Golf and Safari Resort in South Africa, the world's most exhilarating par-3....

Big names fail to storm citadel

Patrick Smith | November 28, 2008 Article from: The Australian A STORM was surely brewing somewhere. Archer momentarily got his score to five-under through 10 holes. Victorian Anthony Brown, who has earned just $26,000 since...

Woosnam's son jailed for beating teen

The son of golfing star Ian Woosnam has been jailed for two years after a 'cold-blooded' attack on a teenager who owed him money. Daniel Woosnam, 21, and another man beat up Callum Marsh, 18. He owed Woosnam and Oliver Hall,...

Taiwan's Lin bridges history

From correspondents in Hong Kong, China TAIWAN'S Lin Wen-tang won a nail-biting UBS Hong Kong Open on the second play-off hole, becoming the first Asian champion here in 10 years. Lin drilled an astonishing pitch to within a...

Richard Bath: WADA testing may inject doubt into assertion that football is clean

Published Date: 23 November 2008 WHEN SIR ALEX FERGUSON objected to football's induction into the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), his intervention looked like good old-fashioned common sense. Ferguson's argument is that it is...

Langer rolls back years in Hong Kong

From correspondents in Hong Kong, China BERNHARD Langer rolled back the years with a stunning 63 to lie two shots off the UBS Hong Kong Open lead, within sight of becoming the European PGA Tour's oldest winner. The 51-year-old...

Online Custom Fit Golf Clubs – The Next Generation

their game. The traditional process of custom fitting has involved tailoring a golf club to match an individual swing type – ensuring the club is square at impact to produce a long, straight shot. The entire process of custom...

Sandy Lyle unveils blueprint for Ryder Cup glory if he is given captaincy

SANDY LYLE has been too nice for too long. Perhaps that's why the most successful Scots golfer of the modern era - count the Majors if you don't agree, Monty - has been overlooked so often for the Ryder Cup captaincy.

Liang, Sterne upstage European greats

CHINA'S Liang Wenchong and South African Richard Sterne hit six-under par 64s to upstage some of the greats of European golf in the first round of the UBS Hong Kong Open. Liang and Sterne shared 15 birdies at the par-70 Fanling...

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