So what’s it going to be? A thoroughbred major winner with killer course management and length to spare? A major virgin with a hot putter and an even hotter wedge? How about a straight-hitting gut-player with a laser-like long game and a brain?

Mexico says it has captured one of the country’s most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as “El Taliban”.

An armed 15-year-old pupil has been shot dead by police at a school in Texas.

IT is one of those assessments that is personal to the core, a belief you attach yourself to because you’re comfortable no one can offer evidence to the contrary or shake you from your point of view.

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.

AT every step, the view of Augusta National Golf Club is surely unique, but you would be well advised to remember this: We are not talking Ingrid Bergman here.

It was going to take something special to take at least part of the attention away from Tiger Woods on the opening day of The Masters – but 60-year-old Tom Watson managed it.

Two days after telling Jack Nicklaus that Augusta National had become too tough for him, 60-year-old Tom Watson revived memories of last year’s Open with a brilliant start to the 2010 Masters.

A Qatari diplomat trying to sneak a smoke in an airplane toilet sparked a bomb scare on a flight from Washington to Denver, with fighter jets scrambled and law enforcement put on high alert, officials said.

TIGER WOODS must modify his swing when he returns from reconstructive knee surgery in order to avoid breaking down again, according to Lee Trevino.

UNDER normal circumstances, Albert Lee would have been across the Irish Sea in a flash to watch Pádraig Harrington defend his British Open title but, in the end, he decided he had no other option but to remain at home in Mullingar perched on his own couch.

The elder daughter of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has requested asylum in the US after being taken into custody at Dulles International Airport.

Another chapter will be written in the history of the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth this week as Vijay Singh and Ernie Else lead the chase for golf's biggest cash prize.

At 9.01am precisely tomorrow the eyes of the sporting world turn to Muirfield and its golfing minefields.

Thirty years on, Charlie Mulqueen recalls how close Jack Nicklaus came to making history at Muirfield.

Greg Norman believes he could be just two weeks away from becoming the oldest Open champion in history.