Sport in brief: free-to-air Ashes get backing

Culture Secretary gives provisional agreement to protect series; European Tour expands; Junior WItter’s injury blow

Trump hires green-keeper who makes golfers cry

Architect of Carnoustie pain to take up top job of links superintendent of tycoon's golf resort in Aberdeenshire

Ballesteros invited to Open pre-tournament

The Spanish legend, who is still recovering from a brain tumour, has been invited to compete in the Champions Challenge

Furyk holds off European challenge to claim victory

American was made to fight all the way for first win in 28 months despite the absence of the tournament host, Tiger Woods

New claims link Tiger Woods to six women

Tabloids air further alleged infidelities of world's top golfer as fellow professionals voice fears for image of the tour

Sport in brief: Allenby holds nerve in play-off

Quade Cooper burglary case | Glasgow Rocks climbing | Michael Vick scores on return to face Atlanta Falcons

Fourth woman named in Tiger Woods sex scandal

Allegations of further affairs dog Tiger Woods as the sex scandal surrounding the golfer continues to muddy his image

Why would world’s greatest sportsman cheat on his wife?

Celebrities like Tiger Woods transgress because they can. Because they can — and frankly, if we’re being honest, because you can’t

Admire Tiger's swing, ignore his swinging

The vast majority of Tiger Woods's fanbase are men who care much more about golf than about the women in their own lives

Woods’s toughest test is yet to come

Problems in his private life may hinder the world No 1 as he aims to beat Jack Nicklaus’s record for the number of major titles

Sport round-up: India tighten grip

Hosts close to victory over Sri Lanka in the third Test in Mumbai despite an unbeaten century from Kumar Sangakkara

Driving ban for Colin Montgomerie

Lawyer fails to convince judge that police equipment was faulty after golfer caught travelling at 37mph in a 30mph zone

My Week: Tiger Woods

My wife Elin has spent the week practising her own swing, using our wedding crockery instead of a golf ball

'Woods's wife should have used driver'

"We probably thought he was a better guy than he is," says Swedish golfer who acted as matchmaker for the world No1

Drummond enjoys dramatic qualified success

The 2004 PGA champion is among 31 players to claims place on European Tour amid unfolding excitement and disappointment in Spain

Tiger Woods is 'only human after all'

Opinions across the sport are divided as world adjusts to another side to world No 1 since his confession about infidelity

Hostess 'will admit' to affair with Woods

Amid reports of $300m prenup Rachel Uchitel has instructed her lawyer to give details of an affair with Tiger Woods

Parnevik condemns Woods 'transgressions'

The Swedish golfer, who introduced Woods to his future wife, thought the American 'was a better man than he really is'

Tiger promises to be a better husband

Golfer says that he has 'let his family down' as tabloid airs more claims from 'mistress' in the wake of early morning car crash

Another sporting god shows his human side

We want our heroes to be perfect, but in the real world they make the same mistakes as everyone else