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Each player on the winning team received $100,000 (pounds 60,500).Irwin had the day’s highest point total of 23.5 to lead the senior team consisting of him, Nelson and Gil Morgan. Martin had rounds of 75-76-75-71 for a 297 on the Black Horse courses in Seaside, California, finishing three strokes off the cut.Martin is still eligible for the Nike Tour because he won the Lakeland Classic. A field of 180 players, including former Ryder Cup players Steve Richardson, Paul Way and Gordon J Brand, will be competing for only 35 cards.Casey Martin, the golfer who suffers from a rare circulatory disease in his right leg and won the right to use a cart in a PGA Tour event and the US Open, has gone home to Oregon after failing to advance to the final stage of the qualifying school. Despite failing to make a single cut since the Open, the 18-year-old from Hampshire has signed a three-year deal with the ball manufacturers Maxfli which a spokesperson said could be worth in the region of pounds 600,000.
The agreement includes performance-related bonuses, although Rose’s immediate priority is simply to come through the tour qualifying school in Spain starting next Wednesday Rose faces a tough task. JUSTIN ROSE, the teenager who finished fourth in the Open in July, has received a sponsorship boost on the eve of his attempt to earn a European Tour card.

Scotland now face Ireland in the struggle for second place at Firhill Park next Wednesday.. Adam Sullivan, a 6ft 3in centre from Hull, is the latest discovery made by Bradford’s chief scout, Eric Hawley, who unearthed the likes of Ellery Hanley and Jason Robinson.”Adam is a major signing for the Bradford Bulls,” said Hawley. “We are delighted that he has decided to come to us and the coaching staff expect Adam to develop into a top quality player. He has tremendous pace and a great pair of hands and should go a long way in the game.”France became the first winners of the Tri-Nation Series when they came from 16-12 down at half-time to beat Scotland in Perpignan yesterday.The French, playing in front of their own passionate fans in Perpignan, used their greater match fitness to see off the brave Scots’ effort, scoring two tries in the last 20 minutes, courtesy of Eric Verignol and the former Sheffield winger, Jean Marc Garcia.

The independent franchise panel, which rules on these matters, has twice delayed a decision, most recently in order to study a new business plan submitted by the First Division champions.Bradford have signed a young player, who is tipped to go all the way in the game, on his 16th birthday. The Leeds captain strained a groin muscle in the second Test defeat at Bolton on Saturday, but reported that the injury had eased considerably at training yesterday.There is less optimism, however, about the chances of Paul Newlove and Adrian Morley, who both missed that match,playing at Vicarage Road.Wakefield Trinity will finally learn today whether their application to join Super League next season has been accepted. It’s what I do best, but I’m a patient person and I’m in no hurry.”In the Great Britain camp, Iestyn Harris’ chances of playing have improved dramatically. Smith is a very strong player and will take some pressure off Joe Vagana and Quentin Pongia. It’s a tactical move, because I think we might need an extra prop, and also a reward for the way he has worked over here.”Endacott, sacked by Auckland Warriors before leaving New Zealand, said that he has had approaches from English clubs during the tour, but will go home to talk to the NZRL about the possibility of making the national post full-time before deciding his future.”I have had some feelers from clubs here, but nothing concrete,” he said “I want to coach at top level. Born in New Zealand but brought up in Australia, the 27-year-old Smith played for Queensland in the State of Origin series this year.
The Kiwi coach, Frank Endacott, has resisted the temptation to bring in any of the young players who have so far been spectators at the Tests. That is best interpreted as a sign of how keen they are to achieve their first series whitewash in this country.”I was tempted to play the youngsters at one stage, but I know what’s at stake,” he said.

“We’ve never whitewashed Great Britain in this country and, to do it, I need my match-fit players. NEW ZEALAND have made one change for the third Lincoln Test against Great Britain on Saturday, with the Illawarra prop, Craig Smith, in line to win his first cap. Smith comes onto the substitutes’ bench in place of the veteran, Tony Iro, for the match at Watford that could give the Kiwis a clean sweep of the series. The ATP Tour is unconcerned about proposals from any other parties about plans for any `new’ tour.”He added that the ATP Tour “flatly rejects” suggestions in Sport Bild that there was any deadline for negotiations with tournament directors or that there was not solidarity between the tournament directors and the ATP Tour.. According to the magazine the head of Formula One, Bernie Ecclestone, is also involved in the project. However the ATP Tour chief executive, Mark Miles, said that the ATP had had discussions in the past with Becker, who is working with the Prisma agency.”For a variety of reasons, the Tour decided not to pursue those discussions and instead signed a partnership deal to market and promote tennis from the year 2000,” he said.”Since that announcement Prisma/Boris Becker have twice tried to pursue their plans. That was the key to the win.”In another second-round match the American Todd Martin, who beat Andre Agassi and Pat Rafter in Paris before losing in the semi-finals to Sampras, ended the run of the Australian qualifier Wayne Arthurs in straight sets.

Arthurs caused a shock on Tuesday by putting out second seed Karol Kucera of Slovakia, one of the six men already qualified for Hanover.The World Group Davis Cup tie between England and the United States will be staged at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham from 2 to 4 April next year, the Lawn Tennis Association announced yesterday.The ATP Tour said yesterday that it was “unconcerned” by talk of rival tours after a German magazine had said that Boris Becker was working on plans to launch a breakaway circuit from the year 2000.Sport Bild reported that Becker, now semi-retired as a player, has approached tournament directors, suggesting they break their ties with the ATP Tour and start a new series. The tennis was up and down for both of us and it was important for me to win the tie-breaker. My game became more consistent afterwards.”Henman said that last week’s Paris defeat to Kafelnikov still lingered in his memory earlier this week. “I was thinking about it in my first match against Tillstrom but I’m pleased to have a good start to the week Today I picked up my game and found my rhythm. If Kafelnikov does prevail in Moscow, Henman will have to reach the Stockholm semis, which he will do by beating the winner of last night’s late match between the Swedes, Jonas Bjorkman and Magnus Gustafsson.If Kafelnikov fails even to reach the semi-finals of his competition then Rusedski also makes it through to the ATP Championship; if the Russian prevails, however, Rusedski must win the Stockholm event.Rusedski, up to No 11 in the world rankings after beating Pete Sampras in the final of last week’s Paris Indoor Open, triumphed 6-1, 6-4 in just 52 minutes to continue his winning momentum.The world No 10 Henman, who beat Mikael Tillstrom in the first round on Monday, saw off Ferreira 7-6, 6-3 in an hour and 28 minutes, but admitted: “It was a tough match. Substitutes not used: Wetherall, Haaland, Sharpe, Halle, Robinson (gk).Referee: P Durkin (Portland, Dorset).. TIM HENMAN fought off a determined challenge by Wayne Ferreira to reach the quarter-finals of the Stockholm Open – but may have to win one more match to guarantee his place in the lucrative ATP World Championships.