Golf

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Thursday February 28
PGA National, Florida
Sky Sports 3 8pm

It ain’t over till it’s over at the Honda Classic. Anyone leading going into the closing holes at the PGA National in Florida knows they’re entering possibly the toughest stretch on the tour.

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Wednesday February 20
Dove Mountain, Arizona
Sky Sports 1 5pm

Matchplay can be a fickle mistress, especially over 18 holes, so think carefully before betting too much on next week’s WGC-Accenture tournament. In many respects, it’s something of a lottery – and the golfer with the best score may well not prevail.

Tiger Woods first realised the vagaries of matchplay as a 13-year-old. Playing in the Southern California Junior Matchplay, he lost to one James Mohon, despite recording a better strokeplay score.

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Thursday January 17
Abu Dhabi GC
Sky Sports 1 6am

The 2013 PGA European Tour season may have begun in 2012, but it won’t actually reach Europe until the Spanish Open in the middle of April. Next week, though, sees the first meaningful action of the campaign (a prize pot of $2.7m) with the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship, where world numbers one and three Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods are the star turns.

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Yes, it was an Olympic year. But one non-Olympian produced the performance of his life in 2012

So, the shortlist is decided. It may be a meaningless award, but the Sports Personality of the Year still sets arguments raging.

In a glorious sporting year for this country, the judges had a difficult – if not impossible – job in narrowing the list down to 12. It is packed with Olympians, of course, but there does seem to be one man missing who produced a display this year to equal almost anything else.

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Thursday November 22
Jumeirah Golf Estates, Dubai
Sky Sports 1 8am

Season-climaxing tournaments have the potential to be absolute thrillers, as long as there is something at stake. The problem can arise when one golfer has been so far ahead of his rivals that the big event at the end of the year becomes a dead rubber.

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Cavity-backed irons transformed the golf club industry more than 30 years ago, so it’s a surprise it’s taken this long for a cavity-backed driver to hit the market. It’s Nike who have done it, so their new VR_S Covert driver will probably soon be in the hands of a certain Northern Irish golfer.

It’s visually striking and the cavity back should provide more forgiveness on those all-too-familiar shots that don’t come out of the middle. It’s fully adjustable for loft and lie, too.

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Thursday November 1
Mission Hills GC, China
Sky Sports 1 3am

Ah, Martin Kaymer. He played like a sick dog for most of 2012, but every European golf fan loves him more than is decent because he holed that Ryder Cup putt when it mattered.