Speculation has been plentiful that he will give up his studies at Stanford and collect on some fat contract offers, but he has said, “I’m having too good a time at college.”Couples and Sherry both found the water at the par-three 12th, but the American enjoyed himself more from then on. Who would have thought Seve Ballesteros and Greg Norman would so far only have two Green Jackets between them?And then there is Norman on Woods. Arnold Palmer and I agree if you add his Green Jackets and my Green Jackets, this kid should win more.”For a 20-year-old with only a blue blazer in his wardrobe, winning more than 10 Masters is undreamable. “They should pull him down and rebuild him as a condo,” said one spectator.But the name on everyone’s lips here is that of Tiger Woods There are expectations and expectations. It must be difficult to lift a club after Jack Nicklaus has said: “This kid is the most fundamentally sound golfer I have ever seen at almost any age He will be the favourite here for the next 20 years.

Sherry, as he turns an expensive hobby into his profession, has thousands of pounds to repay his parents on a student loan.Holing a 10-foot putt at the seventh brought a smile to Sherry’s lips, as did another birdie at the 11th, after a number of missed chances He has gone down well with the galleries. The very fact that the American and the Scot were playing together again on the second day, when there is a redraw in score order, meant Couples had also ended the first day six over. Neither was living up to their differing expectations.As the recent US Players champion, Couples was a hot favourite to win his second Green Jacket. Two weeks ago he won $630,000 (pounds 420,000) to push his career earnings in official US Tour events alone in sight of the $8 million mark. Yesterday morning, bogeys at the third and fourth, where he tangled with the sand both times, put Sherry eight over par. After his 43 on the front nine on Thursday, the Stirling University student said he tried to relax and enjoy himself. Again paired with the uncommunicative Fred Couples, Sherry was again finding that difficult.Couples had his own problems.

No British Amateur champion had qualified for the final two rounds since Peter McEvoy in 1978. After a first round 78, Sherry, fourth in last summer’s Scottish Open, needed something of a miracle to break that fruitless run.
The thing about Augusta National is that it chooses its own fairy-tales. A tall order for a tall man An amateur in a professional world is allowed to dream. Gordon Sherry hoped to make the top-24 finishers and earn a return invitation to the Masters next year Making the cut would be hard enough. The scrum- half, Leo Dynevor, and the forward, Russell Bawden, have both been omitted after Currie described their excuse that their bus was late as “pathetic”. “Oldham have a big, rough pack of forwards and have shown that they are not going to be also-rans.”Leeds’ own pack is without Neil Harmon, but Adrian Morley returns after injury.Paris St-Germain, at home to the pointless Workington Town tonight, are also without a broken jaw victim, their Australian stand-off, Todd Brown.The London Broncos coach, Tony Currie, has dropped two players from tomorrow’s side to play at Sheffield after they arrived late for training. Kevin Langer and Justin Bryant come into the line-up.Wigan, who go to Castleford tomorrow, are willing to transfer their vastly experienced prop forward, Kelvin Skerrett, in order to try to bring their wage bill within the salary cap that is to be introduced.Wigan, who will face a reunion with their former goalkicker, Frano Botica, if he recovers from a side strain, will have one potential taker in Warrington, who have admitted chasing Skerrett, while his former club, Bradford, who meet St Helens tomorrow in a Wembley dress rehearsal, could also be interested..

But he makes no apology for saying that it would have been much closer.Since then, they have beaten Halifax at Watersheddings and come away from Paris with a draw that should have been a win, all of which suggests that they are not the pushovers that their first effort implied.Goodway will have to find a replacement for the winger, Rob Myler, who has a broken jaw, but Leeds, without a single point so far this season, could be in for another trying time.”It’s a very uninviting place to go,” Hugh McGahan, the Leeds manager, said. Visiting sides detest the place, to the point of grumbling with some justification that playing anything called Super League there invites action under the Trades Descriptions Act.Oldham take a different view of the dilapidated ground at which they play Leeds this evening; they know it frequently gives them an edge.Their coach, Andy Goodway, has not gone quite so far as to claim they would have beaten Wigan in their opening match if it had been played there rather than at Boundary Park. Rugby League

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Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home – especially, it seems, when home is as irredeemably humble as Watersheddings. “It will have to be seen as viable and the level of play in the Premier I foresee as being as good as it was this season.”If we can achieve that, then the fans will turn out to watch it in increased numbers. The sport is growing and we must reflect that added interest.