Tiger Woods plays his seventh Ryder Cup this week, but his memory of his only Walker Cup appearance is far different to that of one of his opponents in Wales in 1985.

Alan Dunbar heads into the Irish Open at Royal Portrush this week with confidence sky high after becoming only the third Northern Irishman in history to land the coveted British Amateur title.

THE OPEN Championship will return to Turnberry some time, but the prospects of it ever coming to a course on this island are remote.

IRELAND begin their bid this morning to become the first country for almost four decades to win three European Amateur Team titles on the bounce.

VIVA Bundoran? Bless my soul but it could take a bit of getting used to.

There are no links between the deaths of 14 young people who have been found hanged around one town in just over a year, the local coroner said today.

Ever since Tiger Woods was beaten by Gary Wolstenholme at Royal Porthcawl in 1995 Britain and Ireland’s amateurs have gone into the Walker Cup with high hopes and believing anything is possible.

Demand is certain to exceed supply after the decision to put a crowd limit of 10,000 on Britain and Ireland’s attempt to regain the Walker Cup – the amateur equivalent of the Ryder Cup – at Royal County Down in the North on September 8-9.

A remarkable spell of putting enabled David Howell to keep Tiger Woods behind him in the third round of the HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai today.

Worcester prop Chris Horsman looks set to make his Wales debut next month after avoiding a lengthy Rugby Football Union ban.

Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods, the top two seeds, were both sent tumbling out of the Accenture World Match Play Championship in California today.

Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods, the top two seeds, were both sent tumbling out of the Accenture World Match Play Championship in California today.

Stephen Gallacher and Steve Webster, with over 400 European tour events between them and not one win, spurred each other on at the Nissan Irish Open today.

While Jay Haas was taking an early lead in the US Open, the man who defeated him in the Ryder Cup ine years ago was struggling in France.

ON the same course where he hopes to represent Argentina in the World Cup in November, Ricardo Gonzalez won the Seville Open yesterday thanks to a 40-foot birdie putt on the final green.

BRITISH amateur champion Gary Wolstenholme appears to have fired up at least some of the American team against whom he will try for a slice of Walker Cup history at Ganton in Yorkshire this weekend.

Padraig Harrington on tour

ATTENTION in golf is firmly fixed on the US Open this week — and Tiger Woods’ attempt to defend the one Major title he has left.

MANY of you will watch the Wales Open on television this week and wonder how in heaven the 2010 Ryder Cup was allocated to this apparently undistinguished piece of golfing territory.

The finest women golfers in the world have arrived at Sunningdale for the Evian Tour’s first Major championship, the £1m Weetabix Women’s British Open.

Nick Faldo protege Nick Dougherty and Jamie Elson, whose father Pip played on the European tour, have both been named today in the Britain and Ireland team which will defend the Walker Cup in Georgia on August 11-12.