JOHN GILES scrambled down his staircase in his Yorkshire home one morning to bafflingly find a pair of match caps had dropped in the letterbox from Dublin.

NEVER write off those dreams of picking up an international cap. A cheeky drunken email has bagged eight Irish amateur footballers a place at the football tennis world championships in Turkey next month – even though they’ve never played the sport before.

Sergio Garcia insists he has no hang ups about winning a major and is as focused as ever on the objective as he begins his 40th attempt at the feat as a professional in the US Open at Bethpage Black today.