The 40-year-old Fijian has inched to within 2.14 points of world number one Tiger Woods in the rankings.
Tiger Woods is unsure when he will play golf again after a painful neck injury forced him to quit the Players Championship in Florida on Sunday.
Brandt Snedeker and Adam Scott continue to bid for a first major win with the shadow of former World No. 1 Tiger Woods looming large ahead of them in the British Open third round on Saturday.
The strong field at this week's World Golf Championships features 27 of the top 30 golfers in the world rankings, including past champions Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed.
Tiger Woods's winning streak was snapped on Monday when Australian Geoff Ogilvy kept his nerve to win the WGC-CA Championship.
Tiger Woods romped to victory by five shots at the 100th Western Open on Sunday.
Tiger Woods will start this week's US Open with major question marks hovering over his likely form but Indian Arjun Atwal believes the American world number one is "very close" to his best. The two golfers are near neighbours in Windermere, Florida, where they regularly play practice rounds together and Atwal has been amazed by the rapid improvement shown by Woods in recent weeks.
LA Galaxy boss Alexi Lalas said the England midfielder would command a bigger appeal in the US than ace golfer Tiger Woods or basketball legend Michael Jordan.
Tiger Woods is the red-hot favourite to win this week's Tour Championship, the fourth and final event in the inaugural FedExCup playoff series.
Standing over the hole to tap the ball in after yet another missed putt was a pose all too frequent for a frustrated Tiger Woods during another tough round in the British Open third round on Saturday.
With a resurgent Tiger Woods once again on the prowl and Rory McIlroy seemingly back in form, golf fans eagerly await the start of the 77th Masters which is now only hours away at Augusta National.
New world number one Rory McIlroy does not see Tiger Woods as a rival and said his toughest opponent is simply the golf course he faces each week.
Tiger Woods is eagerly anticipating his return to Bethpage Black for next month's U.S. Open, a venue where he will be defending the U.S. Open title in familiar and successful surroundings.
Tiger Woods failed to make the cut in a U.S. PGA Tour event for just the fourth time as a professional but the second time this season.
US President Barack Obama has revealed that he believes ace golfer Tiger Woods can "absolutely" be rehabilitated.
The ominous figure of four-times winner Tiger Woods seized control of the US PGA Championship on Thursday, firing a flawless five-under-par 67 to charge one stroke clear in the opening round. Fresh from back-to-back wins on the PGA Tour in the last two weeks, the world number one delivered a superb display from tee to green on the monster Hazeltine National course.
The fist pumps were back and so were the profanities he had sworn off as Tiger Woods showed both sides of his game and personality in a combative third round at the US Masters on Saturday.
Tiger Woods, despite battling back pain, clinched the decisive point for the United States at a Presidents Cup for the third straight time on Sunday, holding on for a one-up victory over Richard Sterne.
Tiger Woods' caddie Steve Williams thinks that focus is key for the World No.1 to succeed on his return during Augusta Masters after a scandalous four months break.
Tiger Woods goes into the U.S. PGA Championship hunting his first Grand Slam title for 14 months.
'I was super nervous the moment I was going to put the question to Elin,' Woods, 27, told a Swedish newspaper.
Tiger Woods will return to the PGA Tour at next week's WGC-Match Play Championship in Arizona after being sidelined by injury since his U.S. Open victory last year.
Tiger Woods signed off a remarkable 2006 winning his 11th title of the year at the Target World Challenge.
Greg Norman says he would not have chosen Tiger Woods as a wildcard selection for next month's Presidents Cup in Australia because of the former World No. 1's poor form since the end of 2009.
Tiger Woods will return to competition at next week's Memorial Tournament after a layoff due to a neck injury, the Golf Channel reported on Monday.
Tiger Woods is in danger of surrendering his position as world number one to Phil Mickelson in two weeks' time.
Tiger Woods surged to the top of the Buick Open leaderboard and was joined by Brett Quigley just before bad light halted second-round play on Friday.
Presidents Cup International team captain Greg Norman said Aaron Baddeley "took it pretty rough" on Thursday when he blew victory with a poor putt on the 17th and an inexplicably woeful three-wood off the 18th tee.
Adam Scott's caddy Steve Williams has escaped official punishment for his racist remark about former employer Tiger Woods after a high-level meeting of golf officials in China on Sunday.
Woods won his opening-round match while Els was beaten by New Zealand's Phil Tataurangi on the 20th hole.
While the return of Tiger Woods to the PGA Tour is manna from heaven for sponsors and television executives, an intriguing question mark hovers over his likely reception by the fans.
Not even a ferocious storm that pushed the Arnold Palmer Invitational to a Monday finish could stop Tiger Woods from winning an eighth Bay Hill title and reclaiming the World No 1 ranking.
It was only the third time in his career that world number one Woods had missed the cut.
With the two-year anniversary of his last tournament win fast approaching, Tiger Woods is preparing for next month's Australian Open amid growing doubts over whether he can ever regain his former dominance.
The world number one fired a final round eight-under 64 to romp to a seven-stroke win over Phil Mickelson.
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