‘Three is the magic number’: Tyrrell Hatton says pints of Guinness can fuel Open glory

First Tyrrell Hatton effed, jeffed and played his way into Open contention. Then he revealed he was off for three pints of Guinness to relax and ready himself for the business end of this championship.It sounds like a distinctly old-school approach. But the fact Hatton was smiling as he talked, spoke volumes. He is clearly happy and relaxed

Feel v theory at the Open: MacIntyre and DeChambeau try to navigate Portrush chaos

You could feel the bad weather closing in on Royal Portrush during Friday morning. The atmosphere around the links grew stickier, and sweatier, every minute, and soon enough everyone was peeling off the layers of waterproof clothing they would be hurrying to get back on when the big black clouds broke open midway through the afternoon. It finally happened roundabout the very moment Bob MacIntyre was walking off the 18th green to sign for his 66, five under for the round, and the championship, and three shots off the clubhouse lead.MacIntyre is 28, but an old hand around these links. He knew he needed to make birdies while the sun was shining and picked up six of them altogether, with just the one bogey at the 16th where his tee shot caught on the hillside by the green

‘Two fights left’: Usyk closes in on history and retirement with Dubois test

Boxing, as Oleksandr Usyk knows, gets everyone in the end. It is a harsh and pitiless business and earlier this week, at the end of a long afternoon answering the same old questions in front of a line of television cameras, Usyk sat down with a small group of familiar faces who have written about him for years. During his last assignment for the day he opened up a little more as he spoke about the sacrifices boxing demands.He told us how much he wanted to see his wife, Yekaterina, as she had just flown into London and they would be reunited that evening. Three months had passed, in a gruelling training camp, since they had been together and Usyk spoke about missing her and their four children

Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from edge of space, dies in paragliding crash

The extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident in central Italy.The Austrian, 56, lost control of his motorised paraglider while flying over Porto Sant’Elpidio in the Marche region on Thursday and fell to the ground into the swimming pool of a hotel.Several people were in the pool at the time and witnessed his fall, the cause of which is still unclear.“Everything was normal, then it started to spin like a top,” said 30-year-old Mirella Ivanov, who saw the crash unfold from nearby with her two young children. “It went down and we heard a roar,” she told Associated Press

Here’s one American who just can’t get enough of Test cricket | Letters

Your editorial (15 July) says: “Never try to explain Test cricket to an American.” I took an American guest – it was her first cricket match – to Lord’s for the third day of the recent Test match between England and India. In terms of the kind of “excitement” that is the hallmark of T20 and the ghastly Hundred (explosive batting, athletic fielding), the day was somewhat lacking. At times, play was slow, almost becalmed. However, at the end of the day she pronounced that it had been one of her favourite sporting occasions, and despite leaving England the next day, she practically begged me to consider taking her again as a guest next year

Tour de France 2025: Tadej Pogacar wins again on stage 13 mountain time trial – as it happened

Thank you for joining me for the coverage of the Tour de France 2025’s mountain time trial. Tadej Pogačar continues to make history, with his individual time trial win on stage 13, making him the youngest rider ever to get 21 Tour stage wins. He completed today’s 10.9km course in a time of 23mins, 36secs faster than second placed and GC rival Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike). Despite losing more time to Pogačar, Vingegaard seemed happy with the day’s results