Retief Goosen News

Embattled luxury beach and golf resort group Pinnacle Point, which has launched an extensive recapitalisation programme to meet working capital requirements, expects its developments in Lagos to be its biggest contributor to profit in the year ahead.

The notorious rough at Sun City is conspicuously shorter this year, but defending Nedbank Golf Challenge champion Henrik Stenson warns that this doesn't mean it will be a breeze.

Robert Allenby did his best to give it away but finally won the $1.2 million first prize by defeating Henrik Stenson at the third hole of a sudden-death play-off to take the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City on Sunday.

SUN CITY, South Africa Retief Goosen extended his lead at the Nedbank Challenge after shooting a 5-under 67 in the third round Saturday to sit two shots clear of Robert Allenby and Angel Cabrera.

JOHANNESBURG : South African Retief Goosen recovered from the embarrassment of a putt rolling back to his feet by taking a one-shot lead Friday after two rounds of the Sun City Challenge.

Allenby grabs Nedbank lead Luke Donald chips up out of the bunker onto the 11th green during the first round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Gary Player Country Club in Sun City, South Africa, on Thursday.

South African golf legend Gary Player has placed a "most exciting young player in the world" label on Irishman Rory McIlroy.

Continuing our series on great things to do in South Africa, Charles Starmer-Smith suggests teeing off from one of the world's most dramatic golf holes.

Grant Winter Devcember will be a big month for South African golf, with the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City from December 3-6 followed in the fortnight after that by the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek and the SA Open at Pearl Valley - both part of the European Tour's 2010 Race to Dubai.

The stars of this week's 10th anniversary of the Gary Player Invitational all arrived at The Links at Fancourt on Thursday, with the Grand Slam winner leading double US Open champion Retief Goosen and two of golf's most exciting young female professionals in the official practice round.

Defending NSW Open golf champion Aaron Townsend faces some stiff competition in his bid to become the first player since Norman Von Nida 55 years ago to successfully retain the crown.

Jeev Milkha Singh led his team to a sixth place finish in Wednesday's pro-am but the real test for the Indian star golfer starts on Thursday when he tees off in the Dubai World Championship in Dubai.

TWELVE months after topping the table for the most greens hit in regulation on the European Tour, Steven O'Hara showed his accuracy once again by finishing fifth in those same standings on this year's circuit.

Ross Fisher's hopes of earning a A 1.6million jackpot on his 29th birthday on Sunday nose-dived the moment the Dubai World Championship started on Thursday.

PETALING JAYA: Maybank will remain as title sponsors for the Malaysian Open, which will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club from March 4-7. They announced their commitment to sponsor the nation's premier golf tournament for the fifth consecutive year yesterday and will put up a prize fund of US$2mil. With the prize fund and date ...

The golfing world should consider increasing the number of majors from four to six because the interest in weekly non-major golf tournaments is generally not very high unless Tiger Woods is playing.

At St Andrews, it's tournament over. Give the Jug to Tiger Woods and let us concentrate on who will come second after the world No 1's six-under-par 66 yesterday sent him into the early lead of the 134th Open Championship.

Udorn Duangdecha shot an 8-under 62 behind 10 birdies Thursday to lead Robert-Jan Derksen of the Netherlands by one stroke after the first round of the Hong Kong Open.

Young American rising star spoils the party for Paul Casey and Retief Goosen on the first day of the Volvo World Matchplay.

JOHOR BARU: The Iskandar Johor Open could be the richest golf tournament in Malaysia next year and on the invite list is world No.