CLOYNE are guaranteed senior hurling next season, while Blackrock are only 60 minutes away from the ghastly vista of dropping to the intermediate ranks.

MIDLETON’S excellent progress in the Evening Echo Cork SHC continues unabated after they garnered another splendid triumph in Saturday night’s fourth round tie in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

WAS it a moment of everyday courtesy or a tactical calculation worthy of an experienced golfing mind twice his age?

DARREN CLARKE said goodbye to his dreams of playing in this year’s Ryder Cup last night at Whistling Straits but revealed he still has plenty of objectives for the rest of the season.

DESPITE a missed cut at the 92nd PGA Championship, Pádraig Harrington was last night presented with a chance of automatic qualification for Europe’s Ryder Cup team.

ANOTHER major ended in anticlimax for Tiger Woods last night as a wide-open USPGA Championship built towards an exciting conclusion at Whistling Straits without the world number one.

CLOYNE are guaranteed senior hurling next season, while Blackrock are only 60 minutes away from the ghastly vista of dropping to the intermediate ranks.

MIDLETON’S excellent progress in the Evening Echo Cork SHC continues unabated after they garnered another splendid triumph in Saturday night’s fourth round tie in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

CROKE PARK’S press centre hosts Liam Sheedy after yesterday’s win for Tipp over Waterford. Green flags dominate the conversation at his end.

SHANE McGRATH could empathise with the shattered Waterford players at the final whistle of yesterday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final in Croke Park.

A CAMPAIGN which began on a low note in mid-April against Waterford has changed dramatically for the Clare minor hurlers.

WITH the roar that greeted Barney Rock’s equaliser ringing around Jones Road, Cork’s John Cleary recalls the scene.

FOR anyone wondering why Sergio Garcia has decided to take a two-month break from golf after this week’s USPGA Championship, it should become abundantly clear by checking out his latest gift to the world of YouTube.

RORY MCILROY was making is move up the US PGA hampionship leaderboard last night as dense fog further delayed play at Whistling Straits.

THIS was one homecoming that Darren Clarke will not have relished.

PADRAIG Harrington will seek reassurance from the manner of his 2008 US PGA Championship victory that his first victory since then is not already out of reach following a disappointing opening round at Whistling Straits.

IT says much about Tiger Woods’ current form that his appearance on the early US PGA Championship leaderboard came as something of a surprise at Whistling Straits last night.

WITH 49 days to go until the Ryder Cup, the hotly-contested matches between the USA and Europe at Celtic Manor should quite rightly be exercising the minds of rival captains Corey Pavin and Colin Montgomerie.

MIND your heads while I throw in the first cliché, if I may; in sport, there’s no gain without pain.

THERE have been more eloquent lines imparted from mentor to protege but Rory McIlroy will be happy to remember Darren Clarke’s “be patient, you muppet” on every hole he plays at this week’s PGA Championship.