With Major League Baseball celebrating the game through the all-star festivities this week, SC's Ryan Ballengee wonders if golf could and should pull off the same thing. He makes some suggestions about how golf could have its own all-star game.

FORMER Open champion John Daly reopened his bitter war of words with Butch Harmon by claiming the respected coach's "lies destroyed my life".

Royal Birkdale, Wednesday, 1430hrs

OPEN champion Padraig Harrington's much-anticipated fitness test on an injured wrist lasted just two shots at Royal Birkdale this morning.

JOHN Daly says he is hurting badly but has decided to defy doctors orders and tee off in the British Open.

US MASTERS champion Trevor Immelman rates Royal Birkdale the hardest Open course he has faced.

OPEN champion Padraig Harrington had another injury scare during practice this morning but is determined to defend his title at Royal Birkdale.

Defending champion Padraig Harrington says he will play at the Open despite suffering from a wrist injury.

WHEN it comes to majors, Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els are paid-up members of the 'been there, done it' club; the most Sergio Garcia can say is he is at the head of the waiting list.

FINALLY, a tournament dubbed The Open is just that. A PGA Tour event with a question mark. A golf major where the silverware hasn't already been inscribed Tiger Woods.

GREG Norman warmed up for his first major in three years with a practice round at Royal Birkdale ahead of this week's Open Championship.

RYDER CUP captain Nick Faldo has warned his players they cannot afford to ease up even if they think they are already assured of a place in his team.

JUST a month after Tiger Woods ruled himself out of the Ryder Cup, it is looking increasingly likely that Europe will also be without one of their leading players.

IRELAND'S Padraig Harrington has suffered an injury scare on the eve of his defence of the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, writes PHIL CASEY.

THIS week's Open will eventually be remembered for who wins it rather than who is injured and misses it.

RYDER Cup captain Nick Faldo has warned his players they cannot afford to ease up even if they think they are already assured of a place in his team.

THE narrow, sloping green newly built on the 17th hole by the R&A to complicate the challenge of a hitherto fairly orthodox par 5 at Royal Birkdale for the 137th staging of th

THERE may be no Tiger Woods involvement this year, but the Open Championship remains the finest golf tournament in the world.

THE notion that Padraig Harrington's Open triumph last year may have removed a previously insurmountable barrier for European golfers seems to have impacted on bookmakers

THE coldness that marks the relationship between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods made a chilling appearance at Birkdale yesterday, a notable achievement considering that one ha