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Open returns to St Andrews

11.10.11
The Open Championship is to be staged at St Andrews in 2015, the Royal & Ancient have announced... more

Darren Clarke leads calls for Northern Ireland to host Open again

18.07.11
New champion says he has not given up hope of his home course staging the championship... more

R&A hit back at men-only venue criticism

14.07.11
Peter Dawson defends the Royal and Ancient Golf Club's continued use of men-only venues for The Open... more

Injury rules Tiger Woods out of Open

05.07.11
Former world number one will not be at Sandwich for next week's Open Championship - the second time he has missed the event in four years... more

Relief for Darren Clarke but Tiger Woods gets wind of problems

12.07.10
Ulsterman qualifies for The Open but the bad news is that St Andrews is promising to be tough as world No1 has already discovered... more

Soren Hansen finds going taxing at Wentworth after he is ordered to pay £750,000 fine

20.05.10
Former Ryder Cup star suffers double blow as he loses his way in PGA event after falling foul of Danish authorities... more

I was fired for being too honest, says ex-Brixton boss

07.04.10
Tim Wheeler, the former boss of industrial property group Brixton, tells a tribunal that his refusal to be “disloyal” or “dishonest” to shareholders led the firm to sack him... more

Tiger Woods targets gold in Rio as golf gets Olympic go-ahead

09.10.09
The prospect of Tiger Woods shooting for a gold medal in the Olympics became a reality today when golf, along with rugby sevens, was admitted to the Summer Games for 2016... more

R&A to look at Open age limit

20.07.09
The age limit for past Open champions, reduced from 65 to 60 only two years ago, is to be looked at again following the staggering performance of Tom Watson... more

Little-known German has the class to net himself the big one

16.07.09
Martin Kaymer can join the list of shock Open winners even though the relative rookie is bidding for his third win in a row... more

Brixton inspires market as takeover talks get under way

22.05.09
Shares in Brixton soared 12% after the cash-strapped landlord said it was in takeover talks with a number of potential bidders ... more

Four suckling pigs, 3kg of offal, 40 whole pigeons and rabbits - the grisly lunch menu at St John, voted London's best restaurant

27.04.09
Little has changed in 15 years at Fergus Henderson's temple of 'nose-to-tail' eating yet the plaudits are flooding in. Nick Curtis headed to Smithfield to find out what makes the place tick... more

Fans will be helped to get to The Open

21.04.09
Golf: Organisers of The Open are offering to help pay for golf fans to get to Turnberry in July... more

Brixton's new boss on the hunt for survival cash

16.03.09
The new chief executive of troubled industrial property landlord Brixton says his priority is to raise enough cash to shore up its fragile finances and survive the recession... more

Brixton mulls sale of property to cut debts

10.03.09
Warehouses owner Brixton is looking to sell up to £250 million of properties as it struggles to survive the recession, the Evening Standard can reveal... more

Gods are failing to smile on the works of minerva

06.03.09
Whatever happens to Minerva, the property company named after the Roman "goddess of 1000 works" will leave at least two monuments to its labours in the City... more

Brixton boss ousted as City gets nervous

03.03.09
Tim Wheeler has been sacked as chief executive of industrial property landlord Brixton as it battles to stay afloat... more

Closure for Lyle in his Open row

21.07.08
Sandy Lyle and Peter Dawson, chief executive of the R&A, have ended their row over the former champion quitting The Open during the rain-lashed opening round... more

Organisers delighted by Open crowds

21.07.08
The Open attracted just over 200,000 spectators - the sixth highest attendance in its 137 years... more

Storming Norman rolls back the years

18.07.08
Greg Norman rolls back the years to set the clubhouse target in the second round of the rain-lashed Open Championship... more

Lyle's Open wound just can't be closed

18.07.08
The Scot will find his decision to turn his back on the great tournament hard to live down from fans who saw him as a good guy... more

Punters not put off by absent Tiger

17.07.08
Organisers say the absence through injury of Tiger Woods's has not put off the punters flocking to Royal Birkdale... more

Stars at odds with each other over new 17th green

17.07.08
A carbuncle on the face of one of the finest golf courses in the British Isles, or a picture-perfect test of approach play and putting?... more

Open star vows to battle through the pain but title bid looks doomed

16.07.08
Practice round stops after two shots as injury flares up again... more


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