Sergio Garcia fired a final round six-under-par 65 to win the Booz Allen Classic in Potomac, Maryland on Sunday.
The Indian golfer rolled in a card of four-under 66 to move into tied 14th place at the FedEx St Jude's Classic golf tournament.
The shuttlers led by Saina Nehwal will make their first appearance in the Olympic Games on Thursday along with men golfers as India still waits for its first medal after five days of fruitless labour in this Brazilian city.
It was only the third time in his career that world number one Woods had missed the cut.
'This is a movie made with this gaze fixed on its immediate well-wishers, while at the same time it squints hard looking for those swaying back and forth on the fence,' notes Rohit Sathish Nair.
Anirban Lahiri's victory at the Venetian Macau Open on Sunday edged him closer towards the Order of Merit summit while giving him a huge boost on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR).
It was a very disappointing start for the Indian trio of Shiv Kapur, Jeev Milkha Singh and SSP Chowrasia at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.
Maharashtra government has decided to provide subsidy in the range of Rs 3,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh for school games to promote sports activities in the state, according to state Health Minister Digvijay Khanvilkar.
The Indian golfing ace is placed third after carding a six-under 64 in the first round of the Crowns 120 million yen event in Japan.
India's Shiv Kapur stayed in the chase in the Asian Tour Qualifying School Finals with a 71 in the second round.
Vijay Singh started a new golf season at the top of the leader board after firing a seven-under 66 to grab the first round lead.
The Indian stalwart opened up a four-shot lead at the halfway stage of the US$830,000 Asia Japan Okinawa Open.
The two young golfers displaced three experienced stalwarts from the helm to tie for the lead going into the final round of the Hero Honda Open South.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Kapil Dev will join Jyoti Randhawa, Arjun Atwal, Amandeep Johl and Arjun Singh in the highest prize-money tournament on the European PGA Tour.\n\n
Digvijay Singh and Gaurav Ghei tallied two-under 70 under the four-ball format, to place four strokes behind the leaders.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
The Delhi pro wrested the initiative with a two-stroke lead at the half-way stage of the Hyundai-MGC Open.
Closely following the Chandigarh ace at the halfway stage of the Macau Open is another Indian, Harmeet Kahlon.
The Chandigarh golfer smashed the course record at the tournament with a stunning nine-under-par 62 to raise hope of a second successive Indian winner on the Asian Tour.
The Lucknow golfer, who won the Hero Honda Open West in Pune earlier this year, closed the 54-hole tournament with a final round of one-under 69 for a tally of nine-under 201.
The 'Lion of Lucknow' came up with a fine showing on the penultimate day of the Hutchison-Essar Open.
When rain stopped play, the Indian ace was cruising along at two-under par after eight holes, which gave him a tournament tally of 17-under.
The defending champions enjoys a two-stroke advantage over second placed veteran Shiv Prakash after day one of the Surya Nepal Masters.
Jeev Milkha Singh, the other Indian in the fray at the VISA Taiheiyo Masters in Japan, was tied 66th.
'The picture only looks worse from where Bajwa sits.' 'He sees a domineering India to the east, an unravelling Afghanistan and a complex Iran to the west, an overbearing China on the north and a US which is no longer an ally,' observes Shekhar Gupta.
These exist in a unique world of by-invitation-only properties -- those that are never advertised and which money alone cannot buy. One cannot simply walk in for a tour of these apartments. A buyer must first meet the developer's targeted social criteria to get invited for a walkthrough of the property.
Digvijay Singh played a superb round but could not stop Mukesh Kumar from keeping the lead at the end of the penultimate round in the TNGF-KONE Open golf.\n\n
His two-day tally of six-under 134 kept him atop the leader-board in the Hero Honda Open South 2004.
The two Indian golfing aces were just a stroke behind world No 2 Ernie Els in the Caltex Singapore Masters.
In the process, the Mhow-based golfer picked his seventh title of the season and tenth in 2002.
The Mhow-based golfer shot a tournament-best round of five-under 65 to assume a four-stroke lead at the end of the penultimate day's play in the Tata Steel Open.
Rahul Ganapathy and Ashok Kumar's teams finished second and third respectively.\n\n
Summer Zervos alleged that he kissed her and even groped her at a bungalow in Los Angeles.
Aditi and Akshay Maliwal are mentoring young sports athletes from Asia to get through to top US universities.
The Kokata pro has a three-day total of nine-under 203 after the penultimate round in the Tata Open golf tournament.
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