Twelve months after ending a two-year victory drought at the tournament he hosts, Tiger Woods is excited about his prospects for 2013 as he prepares to defend his World Challenge title this week.
Tiger Woods produced the good, the bad and the ugly in his first PGA Tour start in 17 months on Thursday while Olympic champion Justin Rose set the early pace in the opening round of the Farmers Insurance Open.
World No 2 Federer became the first player to book his place in the semi-finals of the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals by seeing off a spirited challenge from 20-year-old Alexander Zverev of Germany 7-6 (8-6), 5-7, 6-1 in a thrilling round robin clash that lasted two hours and 11 minutes on Tuesday.
Tom Watson spectacularly rolled back the years to grab an early one-shot lead in Thursday's first round of the British Open as a bunch of veterans took advantage of ideal scoring conditions. While three-times champion and heavy favourite Tiger Woods struggled to a one-over-par 71, fellow American Watson fired a flawless 65 on a surprisingly calm day at the Ailsa Course.
Tiger Woods has set his sights on a much cleaner start at this week's US PGA Championship, having shaven off the goatee he sported last week while producing the worst PGA Tour performance of his career.
Four-times winner Tiger Woods will command the spotlight when he tees off in Thursday's opening round of the US PGA Championship in pursuit of his 15th major victory and first this year. The American world number one, comfortably the best player of his generation, has not triumphed in a Grand Slam event since his remarkable playoff win at the 2008 US Open.
The world number one will match Byron Nelson's achievement of making 113 straight cuts on tour if he qualifies for the third round in the Funai Classic. \n\n\n\n
Woods, who had not played competitive golf since the PGA Championship in August due to back troubles, struggled with all facets of his game en route to a five-over-par 77 that left him 11 shots back of rising American talent Spieth.
Tiger Woods's woes continued on Sunday when he pulled out of the Players Championship after completing six holes of his final round, citing a painful neck.
Tiger Woods took full responsibility on Monday for the marital infidelities which have led to his startling fall from grace and admitted he had lied and deceived a lot of people.
Defending champion Tiger Woods plunged to new depths when he missed a secondary cut on the PGA Tour for the first time after struggling badly in Saturday's third round of the Farmers Insurance Open outside San Diego.
Tiger Woods birdied two of his last three holes for a six-under-par 64 and a share of the lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational first round on Thursday.
It will be the second time he would make the cut in as many starts at the Open.
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper suspected golfer Tiger Woods had drunk alcohol on the day of his car accident last month, according to a subpoena request by the officer rejected by a state prosecutor.
Britain's Paul Casey retained his one-stroke lead at eight under par and Tiger Woods made the cut by two shots when the fog-delayed second round of the Frys.com Open was completed on Saturday.
Tiger Woods fired a five-under-par 65 to take a one-shot lead after two rounds of the Dunlop Phoenix tournament
The world number one mixed five birdies with four bogeys to return a one-under 71 for a 13-under aggregate of 203.
The American former world number one won the last of his 14 major titles in 2008 and the 41-year-old has only played six competitive rounds in the past two years while trying to recover from multiple back surgeries.
Former champion John Daly produced some spectacular early fireworks to set the pace in the British Open first round on Thursday.
As Tiger Woods eyes the twilight of a remarkable career, he has his sights on records posted by Jack Nicklaus and Sam Snead and a growing pleasure that his children are starting to understand what he does on the course.
Indian golfer Arjun Atwal sank a tense 13-foot putt for a birdie on the 18th hole to squeeze inside the cutline but the two big names of the event Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson missed the cut at the Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, USA.
Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, who will not be competing in 2014's Sochi Olympics as she's recovering from a recent knee surgery, has confessed that watching the winter games will be hard for her now that she's not participating.
There was no hiding the disappointment for Tiger Woods after he trudged off the final hole at the US PGA Championship on Sunday.
A disgruntled Tiger Woods has lashed out at a pornographic website for publishing false links to his Swedish wife Elin, a former model.
Tiger Woods plumbed new depths when he missed the cut in a third successive major for the first time in his career at the storm-delayed PGA Championship on Saturday.
Tiger Woods returned to familiar territory in typically gritty fashion at the US Masters on Friday, surging ominously into contention with two back-nine birdies in the second round at Augusta National. The four-times champion, whose troubled private life appears to have had no effect on his golf, will go into Saturday's third round headed only by British pacesetters Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood.
Ernie Els closed his 2002 season with one of the best rounds of his career on Sunday and then admitted he had finally laid to rest the ghost of Tiger Woods.\n\n
Tiger Woods might quit golf for sometime in a last-ditch attempt to save his ruined marriage after his devastated wife Elin agreed to give their relationship another chance for the sake of their kids. According to a report in The Sun, the 33-year-old world number one, who is in hiding since the November 27 car crash exposed his philandering ways, has told Elin he 'will do anything' to save the marriage.
American Tiger Woods had a face-to-face meeting with his former caddie Steve Williams in Sydney on Tuesday at which the New Zealander apologised for a racist comment he made last week.
The battle between Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh for post-season honours intensified in the second round of the Tour Championship.
Other big names fell by the wayside at windswept Royal St George's
Just another golfer in his rookie season till some time ago, caddie-turned-pro C Muniyappa is finding it hard to believe that he will rub shoulders with greats like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in the WGC-HSBC Champions starting in Shanghai on Thursday.
The world's #1 golfer is aiming for an unprecedented third successive US Masters crown.
ESPN reporter Tom Rinaldi interviewed the world's number one golfer Tiger Woods in Windermere, Florida, on Sunday.
The world number one fired a three-under-par 69 in the third round to finish two shots off the lead.
The American believes he has enjoyed a very consistent year and simply needs to get sustained momentum going in the heat of battle.
Phil Mickelson rebounded from his final hole flop at last month's U.S. Open with an eagle on his last hole on Thursday.
Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn will miss next month's Sochi Games after failing to recover from a knee injury.
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