As the celebrities of the world stampede one way in cowardly dereliction of responsibility, the county men march heroically against them, their hands up for duty.

Turn on your TV for any length of time this next few weeks and sooner or later you are likely to be treated to recorded moments of rare magic

Ray Smith recently returned to the city where he became a Neptune legend all of 25 years ago. Though he’d started his career in the US and ended it in Spain, fate sent him to a place in between where he had previously never heard of — but it’s a place he won’t forget in a hurry.

It’s 10 years ago now that they all came on stream together, the one B and 4 Cs.

Were golf a team sport and he had a friendship with Harry Sinden, Lee Westwood, perhaps, would be in better position for a Major title.

He’s now, if not fitter, richer and happier than when he played.

IT has been five years since David Feherty touched alcohol but on the Sunday night of the Masters this year, he was happy to watch his fellow Irishman Rory McIlroy nurse a bottle of beer.

IT NOW appears that Kerry footballer Tadhg Kennelly has joined former NBA star Charles Barkley among the select group of sportspeople who have claimed they were misquoted in their own autobiographies.

TIGER WOODS has broken his silence about the terrifying racist attacks he suffered as a youngster.

PHIL MICKELSON, by and large, is a delightful man, friendly, courteous, co-operative.

Tiger Woods has agreed for a new book by basketball star Charles Barkley to talk again about the racist attack he suffered as a youngster.

Tiger Woods – now only the world’s third-best golfer – and Swedish bride Elin Nordegren came ashore on a skiff today from a yacht where they spent their wedding night after a sunset ceremony at a luxury Barbados’ resort.

Tiger Woods – now only the world’s third best golfer – married Swedish model Elin Nordegren as a Caribbean sun set and over an exclusive resort in Barbados.

Tiger Woods spent the day snorkelling off the coast of Barbados, as police and private guards patrolled the public beach of an exclusive resort where islanders kept talking of an imminent wedding to Swedish model Elin Nordegren.