The flight of the ball
The golf ball flight is a result of how the club head meets the ball. The club meets the ball in a certain way because of how you swing it.
ODD BALLS
Final kicks BARNSLEY COMPLETED next season’s Coca-Cola Championship line-up, following a dramatic victory over Swansea in the League One play-off final. The Yorkshire side were outplayed for most of the
SHORTS
Southern classic FOR THE first time ever, Benfica and Sporting will play each other in the Algarve. The occasion is the sixth edition of the pre-season Guadiana tournament, which will
POWERBOAT RACING
La dolce vita LAST WEEKEND, Portimão played host to the first European stage of the Formula One world powerboat championships, which began in Doha two weeks earlier. An estimated 30,000
HORSE RACING – Classic aspirations
THE LAST of the Derby and Oaks trials have been run, and the two most prestigious races of the flat season are now only just over a week away. The
RUGBY ROUND-UP – Glory days
MUNSTER WON their first Heineken Cup final, at the third attempt, by beating Biarritz 23-19 at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium last Saturday. The Basque side took an early lead through a
WORLD CUP – Selection surprises
SPAIN WILL will travel to Germany without Liverpool striker Fernando Morientes who has been a national team regular since 1998, or Barcelona’s in-form keeper Victor Valdes. Southampton’s Alexander Ostlund has
ENGLAND – Algarve holiday
THE ENGLAND party enjoyed their team-building pre-World Cup stay in Vale do Lobo last week, although the value and timing of the exercise must be questioned. David Beckham arrived late,
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – Spiked Gunners, loyal fusilier
ARSENAL’S BID to succeed in their first Champions League final, and become the first English club south of Birmingham to lift the European Cup, faltered as early as the 20th
TENNIS – Hamburg climb-down
THE GERMAN Open was robbed of much of its significance by the last minute withdrawal of its top two seeds, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. The pair declared themselves too