Tiger puts down cubs

The band of youngsters hoping to challenge for Masters glory were put firmly in their place by Tiger Woods today.

Two days before the start of his bid for a fifth win at Augusta in 11 years, a third successive major and his 13th in all, Woods was asked if he had a sense that “maybe a few guys younger than you can possibly push you and Phil [Mickelson] and Vijay [Singh] on this course now”.