TIGER WOODS, along with the top four players in the world rankings, will contest this week’s Abu Dhabi Championship.

HE has turned 40, fallen to 89th in the world rankings and lost his most benevolent sponsor.

IT’S just as well that Munster invariably follow a sequence of poor league matches with much-improved performances when European activity resumes.

WITH the Irish Open set for Portrush in June, it will be fascinating to see if Darren Clarke, Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy can attract the quality of field that has been so conspicuously absent for much of the last decade.

THE RETURN of the Irish Open this year to Royal Portrush will act as a dry run for bringing the British Open Championship to the Dunluce links at the famed Antrim links in the future.

THE latest RaboDirect Pro 12 League table says much about the current status of Leinster and Munster.

JOHN HAYES spent much of his rugby career avoiding the limelight.

THE CONTRAST between the games at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Saturday and Thomond Park in Limerick on Sunday was so great, they could have been playing different sports.

CHRISTY O’CONNOR SNR celebrates his 87th birthday tomorrow.

THE venue for next year’s Irish Open could be revealed as soon as Tuesday next, with Killarney definitely ruled out.