His specialist subject? The rugby con-trick. "They were trying to get at the Maori players by doing little things off the ball," Weepu said of the Lions' approach to proceedings at the Waikato Stadium on Saturday. It seems just a little rich, given the scale of the beating they suffered against the New Zealand Maori in Hamilton at the weekend, but the British and Irish Lions were roundly castigated for their bullying tactics yesterday by one of the principal thorns in their side - a player who rather fancies giving them another dose of foul-tasting medicine in Wellington tomorrow The accuser's name? Piri Weepu. Both fines have been suspended, but Doncaster have been ordered to pay a £2,000 fine that was already hanging over them.The Doncaster coach, St John Ellis, and two of his players have also been fined.Meanwhile, the Hull KR chairman, Neil Hudgell, has denied that his coach, Harvey Howard, has been suspended for his summary dismissal of Rovers' longest-serving player and Hudgell's close friend, Paul Fletcher.A meeting this week will decide whether Howard, a former Great Britain prop, should be reinstated or sacked for as-yet unspecified aspects of his behaviour.. "I don't think it's all that good if Annika wins every week," Davies said. "It makes the rest of us look like we can't play - and that's just not true."It may not be. But for now, her rivals are greener than the putting surfaces.
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Sergio Garcia fired a final round six-under-par 65 to win the Booz Allen Classic in Maryland on Sunday night to establish himself as a favourite for the US Open.. The chairman of St Helens, Eamonn McManus, is to be the subject of an official complaint for allegedly dropping his trousers in Salford's VIP lounge after the match last Friday. When I look at my bio in the LPGA book, I get overwhelmed."Well, imagine how the rest must feel? Davies, the 42-year-old from Coventry, best summed that up when appearing downcast despite her own third-place finish being her best major placing for years. "I feel like I'm just a little girl from Sweden that came over here to follow my dreams and hope to win a few golf tournaments. Perhaps it was all the records she was racking up that distracted Sorenstam on an ugly back nine: the first female to win the first two majors in a season since Pat Bradley in 1986; the first to win the same major three years running; the sixth title in her last eight starts; the $250,000 cheque for her ninth major taking her past the $17m mark."I do have to pinch myself sometimes when I look at my results," Sorenstam confessed.
It seems surreal to suggest it, but in a year when the Open Championship "proper" at the Royal and Ancient's mystical home of St Andrews, the most important tournament in Britain this year may very well be contested by the fairer sex. And no matter what Laura Davies has achieved, in Britain "the fairer sex" has never been "the fairway sex".But Sorenstam is getting well used to her phenomenon overshadowing everything else in the game, just as she did at Bulle Rock Golf Club on Sunday when stealing the ever-deafening thunder of Michelle Wie, the equally incredible 15-year-old from Hawaii who beat every other of her professional counterparts with her eight-under finish.Alas, the amateur - who would have otherwise earned $165,000 (£91,500) - was no match for Sorenstam whose three-shot cushion was more comfortable than that margin will ever suggest, seeing as at the turn of the final round she was eight shots clear. Presumably his opinion of the British people is so low that he assumes we all care more about cheap flights than we do about our birthright.MIKE WRIGHTNUNEATON, WARWICKSHIRE Religious hatred law patronises Wiccans Sir: You note that the proposed religious hatred law would "protect" Satanists, witches and "cult members". But we'll all be rooting for her to do so."To do it, the Swede will first have to win next week's US Women's Open in Colorado and then complete the march to history in the Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale at the end of July. "She's brilliant for the profile of women's golf and yeah, for the whole of golf. She looks so head and heels above the rest at the minute that she must have one hell of chance of the slam this year But it won't be easy A few others have tried, you know. "It's like a mouse and a cat." And, to think, it used to be all about a Tiger. But time has moved on - as has, most definitely, the tag of "world's most dominant golfer" - and as if any evidence were needed of this simple truth then it was provided by all the talk here as the field arrived for this week's 105th US Open.
