Ben Crenshaw remembers the time he led the Par-3 Contest at Augusta National Golf Club in 1987.

Manager Colin Bell is confident Ireland’s senior women’s team can continue to confound predictions in their back to back home World Cup qualifiers against Slovakia on Friday and the Netherlands next Tuesday.

Dustin Raymond has carried a black marker to every Masters since 1991 to collect autographs on yellow souvenir flags with the Masters logo in the centre.

The Munster squad arrived into 25°C heat in South Africa at the start of a two-match tour which will also double up as preparation for their Champions Cup semi-final showdown with Racing 92 in Bordeaux.

Sometimes, that media exposure isn’t all its cracked up to be anyway and can be better off avoided, writes Mike Quirke.

How special it was to witness a Munster side prevail, once again, against a team packed with serial game-breaker, writes Donal Lenihan

Seventy-four minutes in and nerves were frayed in the packed Thomond Park stands. Camped inside the Toulon 22, Munster were going through the phases, six points down and desperately trying to bridge the gap.

As a 1970s Mancunian boy, I lived in fear of Manchester City winning the league title. As a 1980s teenager, that fear faded as City declined. As a 1990s man, I grew to think it would never happen in my lifetime, so comical had MCFC become.

It would have been very easy for Schalk Burger to call it a day in 2016.

Paul Dunne knows he must ignore the dream of a Masters debut if he’s to get closer to winning his PGA Tour card at the Houston Open in Texas. The Wicklow man and Clara’s Shane Lowry kept their Augusta dreams alive with battling second round performances.

My attention was caught t’other day by a piece in the paper headlined ‘World Cup: Ten Talking Points From The Midweek Friendlies’.

Mathieu Bastareaud has always stood out in a crowd, never more so than when surrounded by some of the most famous players in the world.

The “Sold Out” signs have been up for days at Thomond Park, Ireland’s Six Nations heroes have returned to the fold and the treatment room is as busy as it has been all season. Would it be any other way for Munster in a Champions Cup quarter-final week?

Cathal Sheridan earned 35 caps for Munster before injury cut short his ambitions and saw him crawl into his shell.

There’s something about Davy and always has been. Is there, these past few months, something new about Davy?

It only had four fixtures, but Gameweek 31 saw armies of Fantasy Premier League managers celebrate one of their highest scoring weeks of the season.

It’s been quite the introduction to senior international football for Amber Barrett, the Peamount United striker who only made her debut when coming off the bench last September in Ireland’s opening World Cup qualifier, a two-nil away win against Northern Ireland.

Everything may be rosy at Toulon following a 49-0 win over Clermont, but as they prepare to storm Thomond Park tomorrow, All Black Malakai Fekitoa has warned his superstar team-mates to expect a different challenge altogether from Munster.