Five former American hostages claim Iran’s new president-elect was one of their captors, 25 years after they endured a 444-day kidnap ordeal.

DARREN CLARKE out because of his wife’s ongoing battle against cancer, Pádraig Harrington under something of a cloud, also because of the serious illness of his father and coming off the back of missing the cut in the Booz Allen Classic at the weekend.

THE prospects of a European victory in a major are probably a little brighter after the Masters.