Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods have shared the world No. 1 ranking this year, but talk of an all-encompassing rivalry between the two is premature, the Irishman said on Tuesday.

Tiger Woods, favored to win this week's 77th Masters and take his first major title since 2008, says he would have won a couple more Masters crowns the past few years had he putted better.

Six-time Masters champion Jack Nicklaus, who won his first green jacket 50 years ago, will give 14-year-old Chinese newcomer Guan Tianlang some advice on the eve of his Masters debut.

Thaworn Wiratchant is happy by nature, and on this day his smile was as wide as the fairways at Augusta National.

Inbee Park doubled her lead to six strokes on the opening hole Sunday before running away with the Kraft Nabisco Championship for her second major title.

Yani Tseng of Taiwan has failed to retain her record of finishing inside the top three that she kept for three consecutive years after shooting a four-round total of 290 to tie for 48th place at the Kraft Nabisco Championship in California Sunday.

Inbee Park had a bogey-free round on Saturday to open a three-stroke lead going into the final round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship.

Yani Tseng of Taiwan may have played herself out of contention in the year's first major with a three-over 75 in the second round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship in Rancho Mirage, California on Friday.

Rory McIlroy matched the low round of the day with a 5-under par 67 and moved within three shots of the lead at the Texas Open on Friday, continuing his surge toward next week's Masters.

Tiger Woods in a green jacket once felt like an annual celebration of spring, as regular as the azaleas bursting with color at Augusta National.