Ryder Cup team-mates Lee Westwood and Padraig Harrington are both looking forward to meeting in an intriguing first round encounter at the Accenture Match Play Championship tomorrow.

AUGUSTA National has its Golden Bell, Flowering Crabapple and Pink Dogwood but even the home of the US Masters cannot boast names of the sheer majesty of The Azured Winged Magpie, The Peregrine Falcon or The Purple Gallinule.

JOE CALZAGHE’S frustration at failing to secure meaningful matches at super-middleweight is likely to prompt him to move up a division in the new year.

Darren Clarke is on his way home from the Bay Hill Invitational in Orlando, Florida.