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Albany, Bahamas …. Tiger Woods confirmed he will return to normal competition in the New Year yet it remains uncertain if he will contest a full season. Woods gave every sign he can return to his 106-tournament winning career shooting a final round 68 for an eight-under par tally and a share of ninth place in the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Woods capped his first four-rounder in 12 months with an eagle, six birdies before spoiling the gloss with a pair of closing bogeys. The result ...

Albany, Bahamas …. Tiger Woods traditional Sunday red shirt was near red-hot with the tournament host burning-up the course on day four of the Hero World Challenge. Woods bounced back from a disappointing third round 75 with a brilliantly outward nine-holes to be five-under for the day on the Albany course. He headed to the 10th sharing seventh place and while he doubled the 10th. Woods immediately bounced back just missing an eagle putt  on 11 but holing out for an easy birdie to get back ...

Cameron Smith has joined a host of Australian-born Major Champions in capturing the prestigious Australilan PGA Championship in Queensland. Smith held his nerve parring the second extra play-off hole with a par in the co-sanctioned Austalasian and European Tour event to deny countryman Jodan Zunic on the Royal Pines course on Queensland’s famed Golf Coast. Smith’s victory is the second straight by an Australian on the European Tour after Wade Ormsby also won a first European Tour title ...

Albany, Bahamas …. Justin Rose knows he will need all of his ‘home’ course advantage if the European No. 2 is to capture victory in the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Rose resides on the exclusive Albany estate and produced a one-under par 71 in the warm but very windy conditions to end the round sharing second place with Open Champion, Jordan Spieth (72) at nine-under par. The duo trail five shots behind American Charley Hoffman who continues to lead adding a 70 and move to 14-under ...

Albany, Bahamas … Tiger Woods absorbed the shock set-back of being floored on day three declaring he will be stronger for the experience heading to the final round of the Hero World Challenge. What the golf skeptics predicted would unfold on day one slightly unfolded with Woods’ golf game being tested to the fullest in the very windy conditions and signing for a three-over par 75 for a four-under par tally on the Albany course. It was not to the 14th hole Woods managed a first birdie ...

Albany, Bahamas … Tiger Woods is not the only member in the Woods camp to be excited at the prospect at what lays ahead over the closing two rounds of the Hero World Challenge. While Woods has been absent on the sidelines for some 10 months so too has his Connecticut-based caddy, Joe LaCava. La Cava was by Woods side when he returned from a 16-month lay-off in the Bahamas event this time last year and also when Woods had to withdraw earlier in 2017 ahead of the second round of the Dubai Desert ...

Albany, Bahamas … Tiger Woods summed-up his second round of the Hero World Challenge in one word – Successful. For a second day running Woods continued to defy the skeptics soaring into the then lead thanks to a ninth-hole eagle and also producing four birdies in a round of 68 for a seven-under par tally on the Albany course in the Bahamas. If left the long-time former World No. 1 heading into day three trailing five shots behind fellow American Charley Hoffman who posted a 63 to open-up ...