Four-time Augusta National champion Arnold Palmer confidently expects to be welcoming Rory McIlroy to next year’s Masters Champions dinner.

It was not the performance the England rugby team or Lewis Hamilton wanted, but for English golfer Steve Webster it was the best weekend of his career.

A decade after his one and only Rileys Club Masters triumph, Ronnie O’Sullivan is poised to lift the trophy again.

Peter Ebdon completed the quarter-final line-up in the £195,000 Citywest Irish Masters in Dublin tonight with an impressive victory over Stephen Lee containing the highest break of the tournament so far.