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With 175 days to go until the Dubai World Championship, Leisurecorp, a division of Nakheel Leisure, has announced a global partnership with Rolex, naming the world's leading watch company and the Official Timekeeper of The European Tour as the first official sponsor of the much anticipated season-ending event of the inaugural Race to Dubai.

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy held his nerve to claim his first professional title at the Dubai Desert Classic at the Emirates club.

Golf has been credited with contributing significantly to the growth of Florida's burgeoning sports and leisure industry. Sports and leisure in the American state, a favourite destination for English tourists, has increased from $16 billion-a-year in 1999 to an estimated $36 billion ten years later.

Camilo Villegas is aiming to build on a successful 2008 on the PGA Tour in which he won back-to-back titles at the BMW Championship and The Tour Championship.

Billions of golf balls go missing every year around the world so what happens to them all and where do they all go?

Paula Creamer won the Samsung World Championship last year, when it was held in Northern California. (File photo / Getty Images) - The LPGA Tour is returning to San Diego this year with a premier tournament to be played at Torrey Pines.

Golfing great Tony Jacklin will celebrate the 40th anniversary of his triumph in The Open by playing in the Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship at Nailcote Hall near Solihull in August.

Four former Ryder Cup players, Jose Maria Canizares, Antonio Garrido, Manuel Pinero and Jose Rivero, will head a strong Spanish contingent when the European Senior Tour visits Mallorca for the first Son Gual Mallorca Senior Open next month.

Choosing the right backpack is essential to an enjoyable trip. Depending on which one you pick it will be your worst enemy or friend depending on which one you pick.

The media's buildup to the Masters has begun, and Tiger Woods was asked Friday after his second round of Bay Hill about the mystique of owning one of the most unique prizes in sports: the Green Jacket. He has four of them, but hasn't won at Augusta National since 2005. Here's his exhange with reporters: