Golf Central

We won't be able to get away with it until next Sunday, golf fans ... but then again, who would want to? The Masters Tournament begins its 71st incarnation next Thursday - and who knows what magic will happen? SG Matthews takes you through a tour of some of the landmark events throughout Augusta's history that make the tournament arguably the most anticipated golf event of each year.

Perhaps it had something to do with April Fools' Day coming up, but was a week of odd behaviour in golf - from Woody Austin's stomach problems to Bubba Watson's disrespect for his elders. SG Matthews takes another slantendicular look at the happenings in golf that make us wiser for yet another week. Onwards, legions of Rusties! ...

The world's greatest sartorial golf-fest will be back in full swing when the William Hunt Trilby Tour 2008's signature event tees up in July, and if you thought the PGA Tour's dress codes are a bit too lenient these days when caddies are allowed to wear shorts, this is your kind of event.

Mind you, it all looks great too - as styled-out fields of professional and amateur golfers will to gear it up and tee it up at Hunt's showcase - a one-of-a-kind blend of top golf and style run by the Savile Row thread-meister to showcase his wears, as well as some of the best young golf swings in Britain ...

On this day in 1951, in the remnants of Hiroshima, Japan less than six years after the atomic bomb, Ayako Okamoto was born to become her country's most successful female golfer ever. Crossing the pond of the Pacific Ocean as an Asian pioneer on the LPGA Tour, Okamoto was the first non-American to top the tour's money list in 1987, winning 17 events between 1982-92. Ayako got into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame in 2005, but despite her successes, she never won a major - her best finish was a playoff loss in the 1987 US Women's Open ...