Geoff Ogilvy News

MELBOURNE: Tiger Woods battled swirling breezes and some wayward driving to card a patient four-under-par 68 and take a three-stroke lead after the second round of the $1.4 million Australian Masters on Friday.

Playing for the first time Down Under in 11 years, before an enormous gallery only seen at major championships, Woods putted for birdie on every hole until the last one.

MELBOURNE has been saying it for years and now it's been confirmed - Melbourne is the best sporting city in the world.

GEOFF Ogilvy wishes he could have bottled the stream of good golf he found over Christmas last year running into 2009.

THE bookies have Tiger Woods at $2.60 to win this week's JBWere Masters in Melbourne, but the world No.

Phil Mickelson watches his tee shot on the eighth hole during the third round of the HSBC Champions tournament.

GOLF AUSTRALIA has cast its net far and wide for ''a player of similar stature'' to replace Greg Norman in the $1.5 million Australian Open at the NSW Golf Club, but it is almost mission impossible with the majority of golf's elite otherwise occupied in the first week of December.

Former University of Hawai'i golfer and 2004 Manoa Cup champion Ryan Perez can't wait to turn pro but he doesn't mind putting his dreams on hold to play in the Governor's Cup.

Anyone turning up at an autumnal Wentworth this weekend expecting to see the World Match Play Championship will be disappointed.

HSBC CHAMPIONS, Shenshan International Golf Club, Shanghai, China - The HSBC Champions was added to the World Golf Championships umbrella earlier this year, and the improved status has helped the field grow even better than before.

US PGA Tour player Steve Marino will play in the Australian PGA Championship in Queensland in December.

Tough times: Ian Baker-Finch says Scott needs to stay positive through the slump.

Martin Kaymer's narrow failure to make a birdie putt on the final green of the Castello Masters in Spain proved costly on two fronts.

IT'S right on two weeks today that Melbourne will be in golf mode as it hasn't been in years with the arrival on our shores of Tiger Woods for the Australian Masters at Kingston Heath from Thursday, November 12.

SINGAPORE: Phil Mickelson warns he is in top form heading into the Barclays Singapore Open this week, where he faces a quality field led by Padraig Harrington and Geoff Ogilvy.

Aaron Baddeley during the first round of the Frys.com Open at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, last week.

Tournament organisers aren't expecting a flood of European players to join Tiger Woods at next month's Australian Masters despite the event's tour co-sanctioning. It was announced on Friday the tournament, to be played at Melbourne's Kingston Heath course from November 12-15, had retained its European and Australasian PGA tour co-sanctioned status ...

Anyone who tuned in to the Presidents Cup last weekend noticed two things right away: meaningful golf with the top players in the world still playing the second weekend in October and the United States' team playing uncharacteristically well.

Cleaning out the Presidents Cup notebook while shaking off frost from the San Francisco icebox.

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