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Phil Mickelson held off a resurgent Ernie Els in a tense finale to win both the WGC-HSBC Champions on Sunday and a personal battle with fellow American Tiger Woods, who faded to finish sixth.

Only it wasn't Tiger Woods . Mickelson made an 18-footer to save par on the 16th after whiffing on a flop shot, then holed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 17th to close with a 3-under 69 and overcome a late charge by Ernie Els , who was in the lead until hitting into the water and making bogey on the final hole.

Left: Tiger Woods misses out in Shanghai. Right: Preparation continues at Kingston Heath.

Refresh, reconnect and reinvent are the buzzwords for Adam Scott as he prepares for the JBWere Masters at Kingston Heath in Melbourne.

Three wins on the Professional Golf Association Tour is a pretty good career. Three wins in a year? Not many golfers get a sniff of that rarified air.

Shanghai, China: HSBC golf Shanghai: Mickelson leads Woods, Watney in China. Tiger Woods' fans are not ready to believe that Phil Mickelson has taken a two-shot lead over their iconic star at the HSBC Champions.

Tiger Woods has a large hurdle to overcome if he is to win an unprecedented 17th individual World Golf Championship title in 34 attempts - a hurdle called Phil Mickelson.

Shanghai Jyoti Randhawa shunned aggression for caution and carded a second successive two-under 70 for a share of the sixth spot after the penultimate round of the WGC-HSBC Champions golf tournament in Shanghai on Saturday.

A seemingly minor change to the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am this week - shrinking the field from 180 to 156 professional players - is actually not so minor.

Geoff Ogilvy says he is comfortable with the role of marquee attraction at next month's Australian Open in Sydney, even if doesn't except to attract any extra spectators.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - The day before Jose Maria Olazabal was born in Fuenterrabia, a small fishing town on Spain's northern coast, the first nine holes of a new golf course opened next door to his home.

Melbourne will be in the grip of Tigermania when the world's greatest golfer touches down week.

World number two Phil Mickelson is to open a golf academy in China as part of his plans to help develop the sport in the booming country.

November 6 -- A frustrated, and perhaps ailing, Tiger Woods is halfway toward winning his 17th World Golf Championships golf tourney in 34 attempts.

Future driven: Mickelson and Tiger Woods predict China will be a golfing force within 15 years.

Organisers are hopeful that Lorena Ochoa will join Tiger Woods Down Under . Australian golf galleries could be treated to the world's number one male and female players battling it out on local courses for the first time this summer.

MARTIN LAIRD admits the jokers have quit laughing at his Ryder Cup chances since he came up trumps in Las Vegas last month.

Doug Barron assaulted the golf world swiftly and covertly by becoming the first American professional to fail a test for Performance Enhancing Drugs.

November 5 -- Shanking his tee shot is not the way Tiger Woods prefers to begin a golf tournament.