Nick Faldo’s sixth American tour victory at the weekend has led to him being made favourite for next month’s US Masters. Faldo, the defending champion, is now quoted as 10-1 for Augusta by the bookmakers William Hill, with Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Tom Lehman and Ernie Els all at 12-1. A three-stroke winner of the Nissan Open in Los Angeles, Faldo has his game exactly where he wants it with five weeks to go to the first major of the season, the one he has won three times in the past eight years.
“They used to write I’m mechanical and boring. I’m glad to get back to that again,” said Faldo, who has now lifted three US Tour titles since quitting the European circuit at the end of 1994. His career total of six victories in the United States is the same as Seve Ballesteros, but the struggling Spaniard has not won there since 1988 and has now fallen outside the world’s top 100.Faldo remains sixth in the rankings after his latest triumph, behind Norman, Lehman, Colin Montgomerie, Mark O’Meara and Els, and he is ready to fight the challenge expected from the 21-year-old Woods.Woods has already won four times in six months as a professional and Faldo has said: “Tiger is doing everything that is being expected of him. I think he has sharpened everybody’s minds and us oldies have got to get ourselves in shape.”Woods was unable to stop Faldo this weekend, finishing nine strokes behind on three under par.

The pair are both quoted at 1,000-1 to complete the grand slam of all four majors – the Masters, US Open, Open and US PGA – this season.Nobody has ever achieved that, but Faldo, with three Masters and three Opens to his name, has always maintained it is his “ultimate dream”.He moves from California to Florida this week for the Doral Ryder Open, the event he won two years ago by a shot from Norman and Peter Jacobsen.Montgomerie flies there, too, after finishing joint sixth in the Desert Classic and Norman is looking forward to the tournament as well after losing a play-off in Dubai to his fellow Australian, Richard Green.Ian Woosnam was also involved in that play-off, but the Welshman, who dumped a pitch into the lake at the last and closed with a bogey six when a par five would have made him champion, has a week off before leaving for the United States and the Masters countdown.. Mike Meredith, the Cambridge captain, had few fears yesterday when he threw down the challenge to Oxford’s captain, the New Zealander, Matt Barr, for next Tuesday’s Varsity Match at Milton Keynes National Stadium, writes Bill Colwill. Meredith, three times an Oxford Blue, feels he knows a lot about the traditional event and the Oxford set-up and was able to announce a full strength starting line-up. He hopes to have the edge and break Oxford’s stranglehold of the last six years on the Varsity Bowl.
Oxford have had their injury problems and the recent inclusion in their League side, in order to stave off relegation threats, of German Under- 21 international Henning Tewes, who is not eligible for Tuesday’s game, will not have helped their preparations.OXFORD UNIVERSITY: L Crofts (St Catherine’s), D Morant (Magdalen), T Griffiths (Keble), J MacCormick (Exeter), M Barr (New, capt ), B Raumann (St Catherine’s), R Irvine (Lincoln), R Wilcock ( Brasenose), G Bretten (Keble), T Matthews (St Edmund Hall), D Edwards (St Edmund Hall), T Johnson ( Jesus), J Cutress (Worcester), C Oliver (Keble), B Cope (Brasenose), J Hodges (Queen’s).CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: P Piotrowicz (Fitzwilliam); I Sands (Robinson); D Churton (St Catharine’s), D Harding (Robinson), T Parr (Sidney Sussex); O Brew (Emmanuel), M Meredith (Clare, capt), I Bateman (Emmanuel); J Mayer (St Johns), C Mannall (Homerton), G Playfair (Robinson). Substitutes: T Gilman (Hughes Hall), C Lipscomb (Sidney Sussex), M Loose (St Catharine’s), H Ward (Emmanuel), D Heathcote (Christ’s).. The England manager, Steve Baddeley, yesterday received the backing of the Badminton Association of England in his dispute with Joanne Muggeridge. Baddeley is in conflict with the 27-year-old professional over her refusal to comply with the training regime set up for England’s elite squad.
Muggeridge, Britain’s top-ranked singles player in the world, ended a meeting to sort out the situation by tipping a soft drink over Baddeley’s head.Support for Baddeley’s stance came from Geoffrey Snowdon, the association’s chief executive “It is not our wish to be vindictive,” he said.

“However it is important that players honour their agreements and do everything they can to demonstrate their commitment to English badminton.”Until such time as Muggeridge can clearly demonstrate her commitment and fitness, she will not be included in membership of the elite squad.”This means she will not be able to participate in training with the squad, will not be funded to any tournaments and she will not be considered for selection for England.”. Alex Ferguson must find a cure for a headache he will welcome as he prepares his Manchester United side for tomorrow’s European Cup quarter-final with Porto at Old Trafford. The United manager expects his key midfield player Roy Keane to shake off the ankle injury that forced him to miss Saturday’s 3-1 home win over Coventry, and that means only the long-term casualties, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt, will be ruled out of the club’s biggest night for 28 years.
Ferguson knows that he must find the right blend to see off the Portuguese standard-bearers if the Premiership leaders are to take the right result into the return in Portugal two weeks later.Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, their top scorer with 13 goals, was rested against Coventry on a day when David May made his first start for seven weeks after an operation on a hernia problem, while Eric Cantona returned after a two-match suspension.Karel Poborsky marked a rare starting appearance with a goal, while Jordi Cruyff also came in to produce an effective midfield display that further strengthens Ferguson’s hand.Brian McClair, Ronny Johnsen and Phil Neville, the latter making his first appearance since 21 December after a bout of glandular fever, were all given second-half run-outs from the substitutes’ bench.Keane, the talismanic Irishman who is the heartbeat of United’s midfield, will definitely return if he proves his fitness and Ferguson believes he will “Roy should make it,” Ferguson said. “I’m hoping that he will be OK and I think he will.”He is a very important player for us and although he couldn’t play against Coventry, he should be there against Porto.”However, Solskjaer faces an anxious wait to see if his manager opts for a one or two-man strikeforce, with the rejuvenated Andy Cole at last beginning to show the form that prompted United to splash out pounds 7m for his services just over two years ago.”Ole was rested with Wednesday’s game in mind because we feel he does better when he’s fresh,” Ferguson said.”He’s still got to get that first full season under his belt and then get a pre-season and he’ll be much better for that.

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