The stage is set for another exciting finish at the Bing Lee Samsung Women's NSW Open today, with the 2011 champion Swede Caroline Hedwall and Australian amateur Minjee Lee tied at the top of the leaderboard.

Michael Campbell has finished in a share of 16th place after fading in the final round of the Qatar Masters with a two over par 74 at the Doha Golf Club.

The Michael Campbell comeback tour continued in Qatar overnight, leaving the Kiwi in with a real chance of winning his first tournament in eight years.

To further celebrate the Miracle of Kimberley, which completed a highly unexpected one-day cricket series victory in South Africa, Chris Rattue finds a few other shock New Zealand sporting victories to drool over

World golf's new year gets into full swing in Abu Dhabi this week with the two top-ranking players - Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods - opening their accounts.

Dustin Johnson ended a windy week with a wild ride yesterday that carried him to the first win of the PGA Tour season.

World and Olympic rowing champion Mahe Drysdale will be swapping his oars for a set of golf clubs at February's NZPGA Championship in Queenstown.

This will forever be remembered as the year in which a sporting legend was brought down. American Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor and multiple Tour de France winner, was crushed by an inquiry into doping.

Lydia Ko's 2012 season was so spectacular that eventual golf superstardom and riches almost seem a formality.

Auckland, Waikato, Wellington and Bay of Plenty have secured the four semifinal places at the women's interprovincial golf tournament after a dramatic day at the St Clair Golf Club in Dunedin.