Justin Rose has spelled out his No 1 priority for next year - and it isn't any of the four majors. Or the Ryder Cup.Such is the impact of his unforgettable week at the 2016 Olympics.

Tyrrell Hatton puts his disappointing season down to a hangover from the highs of the Ryder Cup and a balky putter.

Patrick Reed's day began with a telephone call from captain Tiger Woods informing him that he was getting a wildcard for America's Presidents Cup team.

DEREK LAWRENSON IN ANTALYA: Around about the time he was due to complete his third round in the Turkish Airlines Open on Saturday, Eddie Pepperell was back at his hotel.

DEREK LAWRENSON IN ANTALYA: After an extraordinary six-man play-off, Englishman Tyrrell Hatton claimed the Turkish Airlines Open, together with its £1.7million prize.

Rory McIlroy will cut an agitated figure as he waits on Bernd Wiesberger final-round showing at the Nedbank Challenge in South Africa to see if he still has any chance of winning the Race to Dubai.

Tommy Fleetwood has won the Nedbank Golf Challenge after beating Marcus Kinhult via a play-off in Sun City. Fleetwood looked out of it going into the final round six shots behind but pulled it off.

Bob MacIntyre and Kurt Kitayama stand 11th and 12th respectively in the Race to Dubai, just 91 points separating them, with the prize awarded following the final event in the Middle East this week.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: Until recently, Europe's victorious Ryder Cup team from Paris last year appeared to be suffering from the same symptoms of euphoria

Sky Sports will be the only place to watch live coverage of the Masters next year after a new deal blocked the BBC out. The new deal ends a recent agreement whereby the BBC showed two rounds.

COMMENT: Even though it was expected, it did not lessen the sadness. The final two rounds of the Masters represented the final frontier as far as live coverage of golf on the BBC was concerned.

The protests began in early June over a now-shelved extradition bill to mainland China that many saw as Beijing's creeping interference on legal and other rights guaranteed to Hong Kong.

Brooks Koepka is the No 1 player in the world and was the leading qualifier for the Presidents Cup, which will be played between December 12 and 15 at Royal Melbourne in Australia.

DEREK LAWRENSON IN DUBAI: Colourful journeyman Mike Lorenzo-Vera from France leads the DP World Tour Championship at halfway - but he knows what happens next.

Rory McIlroy bounced back from a disappointing performance on Friday to come to within two strokes of leaders John Rahm and McIlroy, who is chasing a third victory at the DP World Tour Championship.

DEREK LAWRENSON 2019 REVIEW: As a farewell column for 2019, let's reflect on another momentous season and hand out some accolades to the best and worst moments in 2019.

Players have been given permission to wear shorts on competition days for the first time after forecasts showed temperatures at Leopard Creek were set to hit forty degrees celsius.

Patrick Reed held the outright lead after the second round of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas on Thursday while tournament host Tiger Woods is six back.

Henrik Stenson ended a two-year title drought with a one-shot victory in the Hero World Challenge. The former Open champion had not won an event since 2017.

Leishman and Ancer staged a remarkable rally Saturday in foursomes, going from five down with eight holes to play to earn a most unlikely halve against Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler .

Tiger Woods has accused Australian golf fans of crossing a line after Patrick Reed's caddie was thrown out of the Presidents Cup in disgrace.

In the second of our series looking at the greatest moments of a memorable sporting year, we go back to that magical April day at Augusta, and one of the most incredible major victories in history.

Patrick Reed still hasn't shaken off the stigma that followed his cheating storm at last month's Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. His latest heckle has come in Hawaii.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: Next week the game's big guns return and another campaign gets under way. Here are eight talking points sure to fill the season with intrigue…

DEREK LAWRENSON IN ABU DHABI: What were you doing at the age of 15? Josh Hill, taking a break from his GCSE studies, warmed up for his European Tour debut by taking on Brooks Koepka.

Brooks Koepka gathered all his crew around him on the practice ground here on Monday for a rallying cry at the end of his three-month break following knee surgery.

DEREK LAWRENSON IN ABU DHABI: Matt Fitzpatrick is the 11-stone sapling punching well above his weight in a sport increasingly populated by the muscle-bound.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: Naturally, when the time came to put an 80 next to the name of Jack Nicklaus, it had nothing to do with golf.

Eddie Pepperell, the Englishman who walked out of a tournament mid-round in November because he had run out of golf balls, has a simple, avowed goal for the new season.

The mystery backers behind proposals for a new Premier Golf League broke cover yesterday in a bid to convince Phil Mickelson to join their golfing revolution with the new competition.

The hole on the par-3 16th will be cut 24 paces on and eight from the left edge of the green to honour Bryant's two most iconic shirt numbers during his remarkable 20-year career within NBA.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: Six weeks into the new year, McIlroy has already achieved his first goal for this season. On Monday, he will be on top of the world.

WORLD OF GOLF - DEREK LAWRENSON: You have to go all the way back to August last year to find the last time Woods, Koepka and McIlroy were all in the same place at the same time.

DEREK LAWRENSON IN LOS ANGELES: A couple of firecrackers from Rory McIlroy in his first round back as world number one, and an opening statement from Tiger Woods.

DEREK LAWRENSON IN LOS ANGELES: Mark it down as another day at Riviera when the mysteries of this majestic course proved once more beyond even the great Tiger Woods.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: The walk from the 18th to the Riviera clubhouse involves negotiating a formidable incline for a man in good health, let alone one just back from heart surgery.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: At what point do we officially start to worry about the form of Justin Rose? In a year he has dropped from world No 1 to 13th, his worst position since 2017.

Former Ryder Cup player Edoardo Molinari spoke of his shock and relief after coming through a coronavirus scare to post a strong score on the first day of the Oman Open.

It would be hard to conceive of a more perfect warm-up tournament for the Masters for Tiger Woods than the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Florida this week.

Tommy Fleetwood will have a golden opportunity on Sunday to claim his first victory on the PGA Tour - and banish an unwanted label.

Ian Poulter has slammed Paul Azinger as 'embarrassing' and accused the American TV commentator of showing 'disrespect' over comments he made about the European Tour.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: Perhaps no American golfer in the past 35 years has had the ability to rub Europeans up the wrong way quite like Paul Azinger.

Tiger Woods' Masters preparation has suffered a setback as he is unable to return to action at next week's Players Championship in Florida due to a back issue, ESPN reported on Friday.

DEREK LAWRENSON IN ORLANDO: In only his second tournament back after three months out, the 28-year-old from Marlow has given himself the chance of a first victory on the PGA Tour.

Now it is Reed’s turn to run the gauntlet, the arch-villain in so many golfing eyes following his actions in improving his lie while attempting a shot from the sand at the Hero Challenge in December. 

DEREK LAWRENSON AT SAWGRASS: Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka took their cue from a subdued audience reeling from the news that this was the last action they will witness.

The European Tour are ready to hold events on every day of the week and are prepared to have tournaments running concurrently in a desperate bid to save the season.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: No wonder there is a doom-laden feeling that the Ryder Cup should be postponed for 12 months and we write off a lost year for sport.

The world number one is currently inactive, with the golfing calendar suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. But McIlroy spoke to Sportsmail's Redknapp about all things golf.

If you were wondering why Rory McIlroy is sporting a leaner look these days, a memorable video posted on social media on Tuesday rather gave the game away.