Half-centuries from Tom Lammonby and Archie Vaughan guided Somerset into a healthy position on the opening day of the County Championship Division One match with Sussex at Taunton. Lammonby hit 60 and 19-year-old Vaughan a career-best 70 not out as a shuffled Somerset batting line-up posted 317-6 in warm sunshine after losing the toss. James...
Both Scheffler and Schauffele voiced their frustrations at the PGA of America’s decision not to allow ‘preferred lies’ on Thursday. “It’s one of those deals where it’s frustrating to hit the ball in the middle of the fairway and get mud on it and have no idea where it’s going to go,” Scheffler said. “I...
Shane Lowry conceded he struggled to get to grips with the course at the Quail Hollow after a disappointing first round at the US PGA Championship. The Irishman shot a first round of 73 to finish on two over par, ending with a costly bogey on the ninth after a run of four pars before...
There had been heavy rainfall in the days leading up to the tournament but, in drier conditions on Thursday morning in North Carolina, Donald was one of several surprising names to be found near the top of the leaderboard. The 47-year-old, who hit the first shot of the tournament at 07:00 local time, is ranked...
McIlroy became just the sixth player to win all four majors with his triumph at Augusta National – a result that has had Scheffler purring. “It was really cool to see Rory finish that off and to be there for that moment,” said the two-time Masters champion. “He’s a good buddy of mine out here,...
Pezzolano’s 15-year playing career as an attacking midfielder took him across Uruguay, Brazil, Spain and China. He began his managerial career in his home country with Montevideo City Torque where he won the Segunda Division title in 2017. In Brazil, he won promotion to Serie A with Cruzeiro before achieving the same feat in Spain,...
Masters champion Rory McIlroy will play alongside world number one Scottie Scheffler and defending champion Xander Schauffele in the opening two rounds of the US PGA Championship. The marquee group of the top three players in the men’s game will tee off at 13:22 BST (08:22 local time) in Thursday’s first round at Quail Hollow....
She goes on to say the team “deserves far better” and have been “left in the dark” over their future. It would be the second year a club withdraws from the league because of financial concerns after Reading dropped to the fifth tier in June 2024. All clubs in the Women’s Super League (WSL) and...
Spieth’s CV consists of 13 PGA Tour wins, three majors and a Ryder Cup haul of eight wins and three ties from 18 matches. It is certainly impressive – but perhaps not the amount of victories he initially threatened to post. Going three years without winning a tournament is anathema to a man who seemed...
Cameron Green and Pat Cummins have been named in Australia’s 15-man squad for next month’s World Test Championship final against South Africa at Lord’s. All-rounder Green suffered a stress fracture in his lower back during the one-day international series in England last year and had surgery in October. Cummins returns as captain after missing the...
Buoyed by finally becoming the sixth man to complete the career Grand Slam, McIlroy arrives at Quail Hollow looking for another slice of history. Only Ben Hogan (1953), Arnold Palmer (1960), Jack Nicklaus (1972), Tiger Woods (2002) and Jordan Spieth (2015) have won the first two majors of the calendar year and the Northern Irishman...
Matt Critchley and Michael Pepper knuckled down for a monumental fifth-wicket stand of 154 in 77 overs to help steer Essex to the unlikeliest of County Championship draws against Yorkshire at Chelmsford. The pair came together in the depths of despair at 45-4 on the third evening and batted for four-and-a-half hours together, spanning 458...
Sussex’s persevering seam attack finally broke Worcestershire’s determined resistance – led by Jake Libby’s 167 – to claim their second win since promotion back to Division One in the County Championship. No opposition player loves batting at Hove more than Libby, who has now made the three highest scores of his career at the 1st...
Ben Foakes harvested a career-best unbeaten 174 for champions Surrey as their County Championship match with Warwickshire drifted to a draw at Edgbaston. Foakes amassed 174 from 361 balls, the last 107 of them in a 10th-wicket stand of 158 in 58 overs with Matt Fisher, who made 40, as Surrey totalled 504 in reply...
It is the first major change WSL Football has made since it assumed control of the top two tiers from the Football Association in August 2024. WSL Football said its new brand identity is “born from the movement of female footballers”, with the new visual identity including “living emblems, colour systems and league and company...