Golf News round-up: Ernie Els is confident he will be fit to play in next week's tour flagship event, the Volvo PGA championship at Wentworth, he said yesterday.
Els damaged his wrist just before the US Masters in April and withdrew from this week's Tour Players' Championship of Europe in Hamburg.
"I was very disappointed not to play in Germany but now I am turning my attention to the Volvo PGA championship and, hopefully, to continued success over the west course at Wentworth," he said.
Golf's World Cup will be staged in Seville on November 18-21st of next year.
Now part of the World Golf Championship series and with a $1 million first prize, 24 nations will compete at the Jose Maria Olazabal-designed Real Club de Golf in the Spanish city.
It will be the first staging of the World Cup in Europe since 1992, when Fred Couples and Davis Love triumphed for the US in Madrid.
Japan defend the trophy in America this November.
Laura Davies has confirmed her participation in the Ladies Irish Open at the Killarney Golf and Fishing Club next month.
The R&A and USGA have written to golf club manufacturers with details of proposed changes to the rules governing clubhead size for woods and club length.
Golf's governing bodies have proposed new limits for clubhead volume (470 cubic centimetres), clubhead dimensions (toe to heel 5 inches; sole to crown 2.8 inches) and club length (48 inches, except for putters) to be introduced in the new edition of the Rules of Golf, effective from 1st January 2004.
A one year period of grace will be granted for clubs which are already in use or being marketed, and which breach the limits.
Manufacturers have been invited to submit comments on the proposals by July 14th.
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