President Barack Obama, locked in a tight re-election bid, is skipping campaign events in battleground states to visit victims of superstorm Sandy in New Jersey, a state he’s confident of winning.

Allen Doyle overcame a nine-shot deficit to fire an eight-under-par 63 and clinch the US Senior Open.

Peter Jacobsen sank birdie putts on the 16th and 17th holes to snatch a one-shot victory over Hale Irwin at the Senior Players Championship in Michigan.

A WOMAN rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way - first at a petrol station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint.