[b]Steve may not get much sleep this week but will he find any winners? Read his thoughts on the Barclays Singapore Open and the Australian Open, where our man's hoping for a successful title defence from Geoff Ogilvy...[/b]
To sleep, or not to sleep, that is the question.
Here we go again with two through-the-night events. There's the Australian Open, which kicks off on Wednesday evening at 8.00pm UK time, and the Barclays Singapore Open, which starts some three and a half hours later. I'll start down under.
If Tiger Woods is drawing a line under the whole [b]Steve Williams[/b] race row then I guess I should too. But then what else could Tiger do? He wasn't really in a position to condemn Williams after so many had defended him and the game's governing bodies had decided not...
Last week's three results did little to disprove the theory that this winter close season tends to be the most prosperous time of the year for form students and favourite backers.
[b]Lee Westwood[/b], delivered in style at the Nedbank Challenge while Geoff Ogilvy begun his successful Australian Open bid as second favourite. If only Tiger Woods hadn't, unbelievably, surrendered a four-shot lead in his own tournament, there would doubtless be plenty of big-hitters sitting on a pile of cash right now. The sensible ones will surely have greened up when they had the chance.
After studying this week's two events, I'm convinced we're set for a similar story. Firstly, there's the Australian PGA Championship, which always seems to be a straightforward puzzle. All of the last six champions...