Great Britain and Ireland captain Paul McGinley warned his players not to get carried away after a dream first day of the Vivendi Seve Trophy at St-Nom-La-Breteche saw them take a 4-1 lead over Continental Europe.

BOHEMIANS have been drawn against Welsh side TNS (now The New Saints, formerly Total Network Solutions) in the Champions League second round qualifying round.

EUROPE provides seven of the top 10 seeds in this week’s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship after Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson both decided not to play.

Portstewart's Paul Cutler will face Johann López Lázaro of France in the quarter-finals of the Spanish Amateur Championship in Girona tomorrow.

Seve Ballesteros was refusing to prematurely celebrate defending the Royal Trophy after his European side extended their lead over Asia on the second day of the annual match-play tournament.

Luke Donald may have to wait only until this Friday rather than next week’s Ryder Cup for the chance of some revenge over Tiger Woods.

Ryder Cup teammates David Howell and Colin Montgomerie will meet in the first round of the HSBC World Match Play championship at Wentworth on Thursday, it was confirmed today.

US Open Championship, Flushing Meadows, New York

Ireland's Robert Daly came third in the men's 400 metres at the Bupa Ireland Cork City Sports today.

Padraig Harrington tops the Ryder Cup points list.

Golf world rankings

GERMAN Alex Cejka appears to have the toughest task following the draw for the HSBC World Match Play Championship at Wentworth next week.

US Open Scores

European Hockey results

An injury to Vijay Singh has given Swede Carl Pettersson the chance to claim the biggest scalp in golf on Wednesday – Tiger Woods, of course.

British Open Leaderboard - third round

Loch Lomond Leaderboard - second round latest

Loch Lomond Leaderboard - second round latest

Loch Lomond Leaderboard - second round latest

Lomond Leaderboard - second round latest

Today’s order of play at Wimbledon

Once again - after just one day - the talk at the Accenture World Match Play Championship is not about who is left, but who is missing.

World number one Gustavo Kuerten became tennis’s great escapologist early this morning to scrape through an extraordinary US Open third round match with Max Mirnyi.

There is a three way tie at the top of the British Open leaderboard where Ireland's Darren Clarke has joined Colin Montgomerie and Sweden's Pierre Fulke.

Thomas Bjorn won the £100,000 diamond for being 14 under par on the long holes throughout the tournament.

Padraig Harrington turned a storming finish of birdie-eagle to his third round to finish at 10 under par and is just two strokes off the overnight lead going into the last day's play at the European Open at the K-Club.

Damian McGrane remains at level par in the Smurfit European Open as does Eamon Darcy.

Wimbledon, intended order of play for Monday, June 25 prefix number denotes seeding:

Seven-times Wimbledon champion Pete Sampras begins the defence of his title against Spanish left-hander Francisco Clavet, currently ranked 35th in the Champions Race.

Wimbledon top-seed Martina Hingis, the Swiss Miss who has not won a Grand Slam title for more than two years, will meet Virginia Ruano-Pascual of Spain, in the opening round.

Resuts of today's play:

Padraig Harrington is now third in the Order of Merit and second in the Ryder Cup standings after his runners up finish in the Poruguese Open.

Ernie Els had his second worst score in nearly 450 rounds on the US Tour today as American Scott McCarron won the BellSouth Classic in Atlanta.