December

• Monty the TV personality
• Tiger Woods heads Masters betting
• Steps taken to end Phoenix rowdiness
• US hit by golf crime wave
• Odd Jottings
• Associated Press select SiriPak
• O'Meara's thoughts for 1999
• Jim Furyk signs for Johnnie Walker
• Sarazen backing new St Andrews Courses
• Faldo no longer bookmakers favourite
• Emotional Appleby wins Coolum Classic
• Els voted lifetime membership of European Tour
• USGA announces award winners
• European LPGA appoints new chief executive
• Norman gets honorary doctorate
• Internationals rule out match against Europe
• US accused of sour grapes over Presidents Cup beating
• Woods to partner Couples in Presidents Cup
• Volvo extend tour sponsorship to 2002
• Sutton withdraws from Presidents Cup team
• Price downs Woods in playoff to win one million dollars
• Korean Kang carves his name in Omega Tour records
• Greg Chalmers survives to win Australian Open
• Faldo supports move to upgrade Australian Open to a major
• Westwood wins European award ahead of Montgomerie
• Greg Norman flounders with an 82 at Australian Open
• Price targets O'Meara as his greatest challenge
• Westwood says trophy was fine
• Tiger Woods delights in meeting S.Africa's Mandela
• Big three combine design talents

November

• A vintage year for Kim Rostron
• Captains ponder Ryder Cup success
• Japan is hit by Tigermania
• Changes to Masters invitational list
• Great Britain/Ireland roll to World Amateur title
• Taylor renominated as USGA president
• Rose signs three-year contract with Maxfli
• Callaway cuts 700 more jobs
• Spanish team pulls out of Chile team event
• R & A seeks successor to Michael Bonallack
• Thai caddies see red over green plan
• Dubai venue for greenkeepers conference
• Greg Norman to play in Shark Shootout
• Thai caddies in revolt over job losses
• Britain-Ireland women's team cancels Chile trip
• USGA equipment tests upset manufacturers
• USGA to test next generation clubs
• Montgomerie honoured by Queen
• Lee Janzen misses out on Presidents Cup team
• Westwood to miss defence of Australian Open for place at Sun City
• Clarke breaks into World Top 20
• European Final Order of Merit
• Monty crowned Euro king for the sixth time

October

• Foreign Office advice may keep British teams out of Chile for World Amateur Team Championships
• Norman back in the swing after long break
• Euro Tour strike threat recedes
• Mangrum elected to Hall of Fame
• Ballesteros banking on Euro Tour U-turn
• Open ticket prices to remain unchanged for Carnoustie
• Rose wilts in Australian sun
• PGA profits soar as new developments swing into action
• El Nino versus El Tigre in next year's Ryder Cup?
• Mark O'Meara gets PGA of America Player of the Year award
• US caddies ready for St Andrews' test
• Future Ryder Cup venues include Oaklands, Valhalla and Medinah
• Golden Bear director resigns
• Ballesteros voices his anger about World Golf points decision
• Dye resigns as president and CEO of Callaway
• Golden Bear stockholders file suit
• Tiger Woods changes agent but stays with IMG
• New York Times sues over golf magazine sale
• Youngsters poised to spring a surprise
• Greg Norman ready to play again after surgery
• Tiger Woods in confident mood about World Matchplay
• Monty wants change in Matchplay format
• Singh back on form and ready to defend Matchplay title
• Monty named Golfer of the Month
• Langer withdraws from World Matchplay
• Woods' blunder costs US dearly in the Dunhill Cup
• Old Course still delights Daly
• Prize money boost for European Tour
• Langer replaces Cink in World Matchplay
• Pressure is spoiling the Ryder Cup says Woods, O'Meara
• Cink out of World Matchplay
• Mark O'Meara fails royal protocol test
• Monty and Westwood target £1 million European Tour record
• Golf moves down the social ladder, but spending hits £1 million a day
• Gleneagles open its courses to visiting golfers
• Another Faldo split, this time with girlfriend
• Langer withdraws from Dunhill Cup
• Turf grass research centre for the bonnie banks

September

• Hall of Fame committee is not impressed
• Stableford celebrates 100 years
• Olazabal shaves his head to celebrate return to fitness
• Faldo splits from David Leadbetter
• Jimenez moves into World Top-64
• Rose qualifies for tour school
• Playing around with the amateurs
• Solheim Cup can give Swedish golf another boost
• Scotsman Brooks shares Wynyard lead
• Faldo in a hurry for Top 10 Ryder Cup place
• All star line up for the Dunhill Cup
• Growing pains continue for Justin Rose
• Monty wins British Masters and says crisis is over
• Finchem addresses US tour players about union
• Woods to make his debut in Million Dollar Challenge
• United States wins PGA Cup for seventh consecutive time
• Tiger Woods confirmed as starter for World Match Play
• World Match Play gets internet company as its new sponsor
• Ross Drummond given chance to retain Tour card
• Warren Bennett looks for a comeback
• Son of Christy O'Connor Jnr killed in car crash
• Monty turns to laser technology

August

• Duval moves into second place ahead of O'Meara in World Ranking
• Norman to join Lehman, O'Meara and Couples in Skins Game
• Parnevik to rejoin European Tour
• O'Meara and Singh to play in World Matchplay; Woods yet to confirm
• Irish 2005 Ryder Cup details revealed
• It's official - Mark James will be next European Ryder Cup captain
• Nilsson confident after naming European Solheim Cup team
• Mark James tipped to be next Ryder Cup captain
• Westwood withdraws from European Open
• Pro-Am in memory of  Omagh bomb victims
• Langer doesn't want to be Ryder Cup captain
• Arnold Palmer to undergo radiation treatments
• No time off for Vijay
• Johnnie Walker Classic joins Asian PGA Tour
• National Car Rental pulls out of English Open sponsorship
• Clarke withdraws from USPGA Championship
• Nicholas misses WPGA Championship
• Oki Pro-Am withdrawn from European Tour
• Battle of caddies pits St. Andrews against Pebble Beach
• GB & I lose Curtis Cup for first time in eight years
• Sanders wins English Amateur Championship
• Mammoth task facing GB & I to retain Curtis Cup

July

• GB & I confident of Curtis Cup victory
• Day of shocks for seeds in English Amateur
• Lynx applies for bankruptcy protection
• Stuart Appleby devastated by wife's death
• Stuart Appleby's wife killed in London car accident
• Ross Drummond - the nearly man who struggles on
• Callaway suit against Spalding will go ahead
• O'Meara moves up in World Ranking
• Rose wins his first prize money as a pro
• Justin Rose is toast of the town
• Nick Price accused of abandoning club company
• Omega Tour joins PGA Tours International
• World Series winners to get $1 million
• Nicklaus plans to retire in 2000
• PGA at centre of bid speculation
• Norman to buy courses in Asia
• Torrance gets Golfer of the Month award
• Putter sells for £106,000
• Nicklaus pulls out of the Open
• Monty may get fined
• Irish Open returns to Druids Glen next year
• Els nearly knocks out caddy in fit of rage
• Mize and Stadler aim for Open qualification

June

• Faldo says his game is "just around the corner"
• Record entries for 1998 Open Championship
• Brian Barnes wins Canada Senior Open
• ELPGA announce new addition to 1998 schedule
• Nicklaus may not play in the Open Championship
• USGA says titanium drivers are OK
• US name Yates to captain 1999 Walker Cup team
• Kim Rostron gets call to play in Curtis Cup team
• Visa problems force Ames off US Tour
• Bonallack, Montgomerie and Nicholas in Queen's Birthday Honours
• Christer Lindberg, a pillar of Swedish golf, dies
• US announce Curtis Cup team
• Sergio Garcia fulfils dream by winning Amateur Championship
• Callaway drop the price of Big Bertha ahead of USGA statement
• Immelman's new approach pays off
• Norman and Watson enter Junior Open
• Spanish teenager cruises to second round
• Open Championship goes to Muirfield in 2002
• Rose blooms at the right time
• Westwood and Clarke to hold junior clinic
• Back problem forces Woods to withdraw from Kemper Open

May

• America wins World Corporate Golf Challenge
• China to play in Dunhill Cup for first time
• Sandelin confronts O'Meara
• Ratcliffe beats Walters at first extra hole
• Ratcliffe and Walters in English Ladies showdown
• World Congress of Golf expects 350 delegates
• Nicky Lumb causes first round upset
• Ratcliffe leads qualifiers by three shots
• Clubmakers threatened by R & A and USGA plans to ban big clubs
• Ratcliffe leads English Ladies Amateur
• Kim Rostron defends her English Ladies title
• Injury-hit Seve turns back the clock
• Record entry for British Women's Amateur
• Els has burglary shock
• British journalist scoops the big one
• Woods loses top World Ranking spot to Ernie Els
• Woosnam dreams of being Ryder Cup captain
• Martin given excemption for the Open
• Omega Tour leader Ed Fryatt heads for England
• Faldo and Miller inducted into Hall of Fame
• Horton goes for four in a row
• Swede takes Brabazon Trophy abroad
• Begay shoots 59 in Nike Dominion Open
• Compaq Open to decide European Solheim team
• Faldo to be inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame
• Laura smiles as rain stops practice round
• Langer withdraws from B & H
• England's amateurs lose to France
• American Golf buys St Mellion golf complex
• Norman considers retiring
• New name for Women's European Tour

April

• O'Meara in Lancome rules rumpus
• Westwood changes targets for 1998
• Faldo warns against writing him off
• Ballesteros collects Olympic Honour
• Norman undergoes shoulder surgery
• Changes to Royal Birkdale make it a tougher test
• Harold Swash released from hospital
• Montgomerie gets his Manor wish
• German Open to be played on Faldo's course
• Faldo hits new low
• Montgomerie and Westwood take a rest
• Loren Roberts withdraws from Masters
• Westwood odds slashed for Masters
• Lee Westwood gets a massive boost to his confidence
• R & A issues rules warning on the etiquette of golf

March

• US golf continues to increase
• ClubCorp to buy into PGA European courses
• Faldo plans a Tiger hunt for Augusta
• Sunningdale Foursomes - Final
• Sunningdale Foursomes - Quarter Finals
• Norman, Elkington out of Players Championship
• MacGregor contract for Olazabal
• European Tour mourns the death of Laddie Lucas
• Two new courses for Dubai
• Big increase in European Open prize fund
• Daly has 18-stroke hole
• Germany takes over Czech Open date
• McEvoy to captain GB & Ireland
• New managing director for WPGET
• Royal & Ancient ponders buggy dilemma
• Laura Davis bids for history in Phoenix
• USGA grants Nicklaus Open exemption
• Cheap shots at top Scot are out of bounds
• Augusta National to honour Nicklaus
• Tiger orders cheeseburgers for Masters menu
• Montgomerie offers £25,000 reward for conviction of thief
• Callaway loses legal battle to stop Spalding ball

February

• Ping's founder 'very' ill
• Record prize money for Volvo PGA
• Spalding sued by Callaway over new golf ball
• Darren Clarke gets Masters invitation
• New initiative to raise golf's profile in Britain
• LGU raises handicap limit
• Bonus of $1 million for Loch Lomond and Open
• Australia and South Africa aim to reduce conflicting events
• Horton turns his back on American Seniors Tour
• Dubai Classic and Qater Masters will go ahead despite Gulf crisis
• Malaysian Open venue changed
• Martin wins right to use golf cart on US Tour
• Clarke's on the move
• Open prize money boosted to £1.75 million
• Els plans all-out assault on The Masters
• Seve gets top Olympic honour
• Complete sell-out at 1998 Masters
• Golden Bear eyes major streak
• USGA name Curtis Cup captain
• Seve splits up with his manager

January

• Els could rejoin European Tour
• Baker-Finch calls it a day
• Nicklaus denied US Open exemption
• Barclay Howard needs treatment for leukaemia
• Four aces in a day at St Ives Golf Club
• Seve's changes rejected by Ryder Cup Committee
• More sponsors for European Seniors
• Head of USGA Women's committee elected
• Woods gets 1997 Player of the Year Award
• 2000 Curtis Cup venue change
• Montgomerie wins Andersen Consulting
• New sponsor gives boost to European Seniors
• Laura Davies pledges support for WPGET