Pádraig Harrington will roll back up Magnolia Drive next week having admitted it was a shock to have missed last year’s Masters.

With less than an a half hour to go before the first four-balls tee off in Ryder Cup 2014 we gathered together some of the best of the build-up.

It was a week when ignominy visited great cue men. Steve Davis was ducked in a New South Wales lake then banished from the jungle before a chancer from The Only Way is Essex; a parable of snooker’s current standing in public affections.