By Daniel EtchellsNorthern Ireland's Darren Clarke has been named Europe's captain for the 2016 Ryder Cup as the team bids to secure an unprecedented fourth consecutive crown.

captain Paul McGinley of Ireland, chose the 46-year-old to lead the continent at the Hazeltine National Golf

By Daniel EtchellsThe Disabled Golf Association (DGA) has unveiled its calendar for 2015, which will

highlights is the Race to Burhill, which was launched in 2013 in association with one of the UK's largest golf

played across seven BGL courses with the top three golfers from each competing in the final at Burhill Golf

highly on the coming year's schedule which is set to start at Hurtmore, Surrey, on March 6.Disabled Golf

Association players will have the opportunity to compete at some of the UK's top golf courses ©Getty

at ParalympicsJuly 2010: New website set-up to encourage disabled to play golf

By Duncan MackayThe American Samoa National Olympic Committee (ASNOC) has received a welcome funding boost which has coincided with it launching a new logo in time for this year's Pacific Games. 

to send more 100 athletes and officials to the Games, including in basketball, bodybuilding, boxing, golf

EtchellsThe Princess Royal has accepted an invitation to become an honorary member of the Royal and Ancient Golf

tradition and vote to admit women for the first time.Up until the ballot, women had been allowed to play golf

It is an honour and a privilege for The Royal and Ancient Golf Club to welcome these remarkable women

as honorary members," said George Macgregor, captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews

the Club and we could not be more proud also to welcome women who have distinguished themselves in golf

golf club drops men-only rule to welcome top politician Rice as female member

By Liam MorganGeneral Fernando Azevedo e Silva, head of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) for Rio 2016, has quit his post just 18 months before the start of the Games.

"final stretch" of constructing new anti-doping laboratory for Olympic GamesJanuary 2015: Rio 2016 golf

launched after delegates at December's IOC Session in Monte Carlo unanimously backed plans ©IOCThis week's golf

deal reminded me of comments made to me last July by an expert who has studied golf markets for three

specifically to the UK, Stephen Proctor of Sports Marketing Surveys Inc opined that free-to-air coverage of golf

2014, on free-to-air television ©Getty ImagesOne should also point out that the meagre menu of live golf

least this long before attempting to draw definitive conclusions about what this week's deal means for golf

By Nick ButlerGolf's world number one player Rory McIlroy has settled a multi-million pound legal case with his former management firm Horizon Sports following a out-of-court-settlement in Dublin by agreeing to pay them a reported $25 million (£16 million/€22 million).  

By Mike RowbottomAs competitors and spectators gather in Colorado for the Alpine World Ski Championships which are due get underway tomorrow, Gian-Franco Kasper - President of the International Ski Federation (FIS) is looking forward to the Vonn Effect.The presence in Vail/Beaver Creek of Lindsey Vonn, who last month equalled and then broke Annemarie Moser-Proll's 35-year-old record of 62 World Cup victories, will intensify the focus on a sporting event which is second only to the winter Olympics in terms of prestige.Not least because the outgoing American has come back this year from a serious knee injury which prevented her competing...

The additional presence of Vonn's boyfriend Tiger Woods - the multiple golf Majors winner has promised

By Liam MorganCue sports has become the latest discipline to announce its intention to be added to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic programme.

surfing, karate, squash and skateboarding.The Summer Olympic programme currently includes 28 sports after golf

Golf and skiing go together well.

, as we have seen in the case of Tiger Woods.And thinking about it, skiers sometimes need to beware golf

Golf and tennis go together well.

For instance, multiple Grand Slam tennis champion Chris Evert married not quite multiple golf Majors

Michael Pavitt at the Apex Temple Court Hotel in LondonRio 2016 are not expecting to need to postpone the golf

being ready in time for the test event having been described as "improbable" last May by International Golf

official Rio 2016 calendar revealing that it will take place in November, in Barra.It would make the golf

Olympic Games in South America.In November environmentalists' attempts to halt the development of the golf

Golf is set to make its return to the Olympics in 2016 after an absence of 112 years.Contact the writer

at Olympic golf course begins amid delay concernsMay 2014: Rio 2016 golf test event one year out from

By Michael PavittRio 2016 football venues are set to be confirmed next month after the possibility was raised of several more cities being added to the list of venues hosting matches at during the Olympics.

about the construction of Rio 2016 venues, with a legal challenge opposing the construction of the golf

By Michael PavittAthletics, basketball, cycling and handball were among 14 national sports associations awarded by the Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) for their achievements in 2014.

Askar.Among the associations collecting awards from the BOC were billiards and snooker, bowling, fencing, golf

By Liam MorganThe Golf Federation of Haiti (FGH) has announced it has been approved as an affiliate member

of the International Golf Federation in another sporting boost for the country.

The IGF manages all World Golf Championships for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the development

Labour in an attempt to integrate Haiti into the worldwide family of golf.There is one small nine-hole golf

By Daniel EtchellsWorld Archery has appointed Lausanne-based company GPS Performance to lead its sponsorship activities.

events and federations.Archery joins sports such as skiing, rowing, equestrian, cycling, tennis and golf