EUROPEAN TOUR:There will be no European Tour event in Bahrain early next year following the political unrest in the Middle East state.

The inaugural Volvo Golf Champions was staged in January with prize money of more than €1.7 million and a star-studded field that included Open champion Darren Clarke, Pádraig Harrington and eventual winner Paul Casey.

WGC: Ross Fisher has withdrawn from this week's Bridgestone Invitational in America to stay with his wife and their three-month-old son Harry, who will be kept in hospital in Killarney until Friday. Fisher's defence of the Irish Open title last week took a back seat when the baby was taken to hospital in on Saturday.

WALKER CUP:The first four members of America's team to face Britain and Ireland at Royal Aberdeen next month have been named. They are last year's US amateur champion Peter Uihlein, who made the cut at the British Open last month, 19-year-old Patrick Cantlay, who finished 21st at the US Open in June and then shot 60 on the PGA Tour, and Russell Henley and Harris English, both of whom have won on the Nationwide Tour this year.

US TOUR:Rookie Scott Stallings held his nerve in dramatic fashion to win his maiden PGA Tour title in a play-off with fellow Americans Bob Estes and Bill Haas at the Greenbrier Classic in West Virginia on Sunday.

The 26-year-old, who sank a five-foot birdie putt at the final hole in regulation to join the play-off, birdied the same hole moments later to take the title.

US SENIOR OPEN: Olin Browne sealed the biggest win of his career with a 30-foot birdie putt at the final hole for a three-shot victory over Mark O'Meara at the US Senior Open in Toledo, Ohio on Sunday.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN:Tiger Woods will play at the Australian Open in Sydney in November, making him a likely starter at the following weeks Presidents Cup.