Rory McIlroy was taken by surprise when told of Tiger Woods’s appointment as a 2016 Hazeltine Ryder Cup vice-captain.

After weeks of dealing with Ryder Cup captaincy matters, Darren Clarke can at least for the next fortnight get back to focusing fully on his chosen profession.

Double winning Ryder Cup star Peter Hanson believes Europe could be an even stronger force under Paul McGinley than compared to victorious former captains Colin Montgomerie and Jose Maria Olazabal.

A leading athletics coach who counts British athlete Dwain Chambers as one of his star pupils was appearing in an American court today, accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs.

THE coach of British sprinter Dwain Chambers is among four men indicted by a federal grand jury in America on charges of distributing illegal steroids.