Brian Casey had to be content with second spot in the English Open strokeplay championship for the Brabazon Trophy at Formby after a final round hiccup.

PAUL CUTLER will aim this week to build on his early-season success and keep his name very much to the forefront of the minds of Great Britain and Ireland selectors as they prepare to put together the St Andrews Trophy side for later in the summer.

THE wife of footballer Steven Gerrard was told by burglars they would “take her kids” in a terrifying raid on their home, a court heard yesterday.

THE remarkable Maguire twins, Leona and Lisa, from Co Cavan, will create a significant piece of Curtis Cup history when they make their debuts in the bi-annual clash with the US at the Essex Country Club, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachussetts on June 11-13.

FROM the greens of Augusta to the green of the Emerald Isle and on to golfing glory?

A man will appear in court today charged with breaking into England footballer Steven Gerrard’s home.

Fourteen-year-old Irish twins Leona and Lisa Maguire have been included in the squad for Britain and Ireland’s Curtis Cup match against the United States in Massachusetts next June.

The man punched in a nightclub by Liverpool football star Steven Gerrard is launching a civil action against the player and six of his friends, it emerged today.

Steven Gerrard will be watched by millions today as he plays his first match since being charged with assault and affray.

Liverpool footballer Steven Gerrard was supported by his football club today as he faced a maximum five-year jail term if convicted of assault.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was arrested today after a brawl at a nightspot.

FOR a tournament built on tradition, change was everywhere at Royal Birkdale.

For 212 assorted amateurs and professionals the dream of playing in The Open at Birkdale is still alive following yesterday’s 16 regional qualifying tournaments around Ireland and Britain.

Liverpool FC is to step up security at its players’ houses after Steven Gerrard became the club’s latest team member to be targeted by robbers during a football game.

A STORYLINE about child abduction in the British TV soap Coronation Street is being rewritten because of similarities with the Madeleine McCann case in Portugal.

COLIN MONTGOMERIE lifted the Seve Trophy for a third successive time yesterday - despite losing his own singles yet again.

Colin Montgomerie lifted the Seve Trophy for a third successive time today - despite losing his own singles yet again.

Jose Maria Olazabal has warned against expecting too much too soon of some of Europe’s rising stars.

Teenage sensation Michelle Wie has accepted an invitation to play in the Weetabix Women’s British Open at Royal Birkdale in July.

IRELAND’S Ada O’Sullivan has been re-appointed captain of the Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup team which will take on America in Oregon in 2006.

DARREN CLARKE wasn’t back to his old moody ways at Shinnecock Hills yesterday but he wasn’t far off it.

Teenage sensation Michelle Wie led from the front as the United States retained the Curtis Cup when they beat Great Britain and Ireland 10-8 in an enthralling match at Formby today.

Great Britain and Ireland won the foursomes 2-1 on the second day of the Curtis Cup at Formby to tie the match at 6-6.

Great Britain and Ireland whitewashed the United States 3-0 in the Curtis Cup opening foursomes at windy Formby today to give captain Ada O’Sullivan the perfect start to her quest to end a run of three successive defeats.

IRELAND'S Curtis Cup rookie Claire Coughlan will have plenty to cope with today on the opening day of the event at Formby when she plays against American teen starlet Michelle Wie.

GREAT BRITAIN & Ireland Curtis Cup captain, Monkstown’s Ada O’Sullivan, is planning to use the spectre of playing against teenage sensation Michelle Wie to motivate her eight-member squad.

Michelle Wie feels there will be nothing she cannot cope with when the US begin their defence of the Curtis Cup against Great Britain and Ireland on Saturday – except the notorious Formby pot bunkers.

CORK’S Claire Coughlan will be the 12th Irish golfer to play in the Curtis Cup when she lines out for Britain & Ireland against the United States at Formby on June 12 and 13.

Great Britain and Ireland are relishing the challenge of facing the United States, and especially their 13-year-old Michelle Wie, in the Curtis Cup at Formby in June.

Michelle Wie, the 14-year-old sensation who came within a shot of making the halfway cut on the US Tour’s Sony Open last month, will become the youngest-ever player to compete in the Curtis Cup in June.

Nothing and nobody could stop Denmark’s Anders Hansen leading the Volvo Masters when it began at Valderrama today.

Ireland and Great Britain today staved off an amazing last-ditch fightback by the Continent of Europe at Co Louth to win the Vagliano trophy for the first time for a decade.

EVERTON striker Duncan Ferguson is being investigated