Sorenstam has stuttering start
Golf: The third stage of Annika Sorenstam’s bid to win all four of the women’s major championships in one season got off to a stuttering start yesterday in the first round of the US Women’s Open at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver.
The Swedish world No 1, who has already claimed the Kraft Nabisco and LPGA titles this season, opened and closed with a bogey in a round of 71, level par, that included three birdies and three bogeys. The round left her two shots in arrears of Angela Stanford, the early clubhouse leader.
Hope for Broncos
Rugby league: Leeds Rhinos, unbeaten in their past dozen encounters against London Broncos, are likely to be given a stern test in the first of the Powergen Challenge Cup quarter-finals tonight. Leeds are unchanged but Mark McLinden is absent for the Broncos with a knee injury.
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Worlds collide
Squash: A combined men’s and women’s World Open Championships is to be held for the first time in Hong Kong, from November 29 to December 4. The Cathay Pacific Open, staged in the same country, is likely to be cancelled to make room for the new event.
Teare comeback
Netball: Abby Teare, 28, the Australian-born shooter who took a break after the 2003 World Championships, returns to the England squad when she lines up against Jamaica in the first international in Newcastle tomorrow. Teare said that she missed training and top-class competition.