Tiger Woods insists he is close to contending on a weekly basis, even if recent results suggest otherwise.

Home favourite Kim Bi-O stayed on course for back-to-back OneAsia titles by shooting a five-under-par 67 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the SK Telecom Open.

England's Richard Finch delivered the first big upset at the Volvo World Match-Play Championship on Friday as he knocked out former PGA Champion Martin Kaymer of Germany.

"Welcome to the most extreme golf in the world," says the European Union ambassador to Afghanistan, as half-a-dozen heavily armed bodyguards fan out around him and scan the Kabul Golf Club course.

American Matt Kuchar kept his composure while others around him caved under the pressure to win The Players Championship tournament by two shots on Sunday.

Talented young South Korean golfer Kim Bi-O cruised to a five-stroke victory in the GS Caltex Maekyung Open Golf Championship in Seoul on Sunday.

Ace golfer Jeev Milkha Singh on Wednesday said cutting down on the number of tournaments this season has helped him and exuded confidence of breaking his three-year old title draught anytime soon.

It didn't take long for Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler to size each other up in a lineup of stars. The Americans were so loaded that year that eight players from the 10-man team have made it to the PGA Tour and five of them already have won - Dustin Johnson, Webb Simpson, Kyle Stanley, Chris Kirk and Fowler, who won at Quail Hollow last week in a playoff that included McIlroy.

Phil Mickelson loved golf before he was old enough to walk and swing a club. It took him on a thrilling ride of major championships and a few spectacular crashes, eventually leading to his induction on Monday into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Rickie Fowler won his first US PGA Tour title with a playoff victory over US Open champion Rory McIlroy and DA Points on Sunday at Quail Hollow.