Peter Thomson News

Alex Prugh, of the United States, holds the trophy he received after winning the 2009 New Zealand Open.

My top 10 stories from 2009 and what we learned from them: 1) The Tiger Woods' crash and the scandal that followed Wow, where do you begin? Maybe it's the message in Romans 3:10: "There is none righteous, not even one." Let's see.

Golf The links ... 'there is a locker-room mentality out here'. Getty Veteran caddie reveals insights about life on professional golf tours December 09, 2009 In 1988, my first year on the United States PGA Tour, there was a handful of Australian golfers on the tour.

It was perhaps fitting that Asia's first champion of a major, Yang Yong-eun, should pick the wind as the element that could play a crucial role in deciding the winner of the 51st edition of the UBS Hong Kong Open on Sunday.

Kingston Heath, which will host Tiger Woods this week, is a magnifi cent golf course and a tribute to its designers.

TIGER Woods is keen to get to Melbourne next week and test his skills against the renowned Kingston Heath course, saying other players have raved about it.

AMONG the features of this golfing season have been the last-round dramas which have had to be played out before the victors got their mitts on the spoils.

A "Battle for St Andrews" - a fight about money and greed versus history, tradition and decency - is currently raging at the revered home of golf in Scotland.

I'm sitting in the airport in Oakland, a short ride from San Francisco. The Presidents Cup, as you know, was won by the U.S., but the golf itself was actually secondary.

The names change but the storyline rarely does for the International Team at the Presidents Cup.

American Tiger Woods helped take the U.S. team to a commanding lead over the Internationals in Saturday play for the Presidents Cup at Harding Park golf course in San Francisco.

There's no reason for U.S. captain Fred Couples to radically alter his easygoing style for this week's Presidents Cup.

Hot on his tail Marc Leishman finished tied second behind Tiger Woods, who collected his sixth win of the year.

Peter Thomson cuts his 80th birthday cake at Sandhurst Club with Ladies captain Glenda Williams and inaugural captain Matt van Rensberg.

MELBOURNE will keep the Women's Australian Open for the next two years, with Commonwealth Golf Club stepping up to host the 2010 tournament in the famed sandbelt next February.

Five-time Open champion Peter Thomson shows no sign of slowing down. PETER Thomson arrives dressed sharply in suit and tie.

Smile more: Tiger Woods hits a tee shot on the sixth hole during a practice round for The Barclays tournament in New Jersey Over the weekend, the great Australian golfer Peter Thomson criticised Woods's recent behaviour.

TODAY, HE needs a new nickname. Today, the man his native Australia calls "five times" becomes "five times four-squared." Today, Peter Thomson, one of only four quintuple Open champions , is 80 years old, a milestone reached with the same insouciant air he brought to the game he distinguished for so long and in so many ways.

The 'Melbourne Tiger' tweaked the tail of the modern day Tiger and a couple of other big beasts when he talked to the Telegraph Sport from his Melbourne offices this week.

Tributes are flowing in from around the world for golfing great Peter Thomson AO, CBE who will next week celebrate his 80 birthday.