News about Sam Snead

Jack Burke Jr., the longest living Masters champion, died on Friday at the age of 100. With a win in the PGA Championship near Boston in July, he continued his winning at Augusta National in April 1956. Only Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, and Burke have ever won the Masters and PGA Championship in the same year. 'Jackie Burke was a true Hall of Famer who will always be remembered for the elegance and grace with which he played the game and operated Champions Golf Club,' PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said.

Tiger Woods' long battle with injury, according to Jack Nicklaus, makes it unlikely that he will ever reach the 18 major championships. Woods set new records as the youngest major championship winner in golf at the age of 24, the first player to win all four major championships at the same time, while his 15-shot victory at the U.S. Open is the biggest margin for a major in golf history. Woods has won 15 majors, second only to Nicklaus, and his 82 career PGA Tour victories are tied with Sam Snead.

On Friday, Tiger Woods returned from eight months in hospital to face the Hero World Challenge in a very competitive front nine. On Thursday, the golf legend, 47, struggled during his first round, but 24 hours later, he lit up the course to calm his fans' injury fears and climbed to 12th place. After his disappointing three-over-par 75 yesterday, he shot four-under-par 72 of the entire field, giving him his joint lowest front nine of the entire field.

INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE: It's a wild morning on the outskirts of Royal Porthcawl. The lovely chap who was once known as the Welsh Bulldog is looking out from the pavilion at the younger men of the Senior Open as a realization dawns on him. 'You're here to make me feel old, aren't you?' It's the same glint he sees in his eye now as well, according to Brian Hugh. He is partially correct, because we are here to discuss the Ryder Cup, and he has many lines of distinction when it comes to one of sport's most coveted activities. He is Europe's longest serving captain at 86, not least because he is Europe's longest living captain. 'I've never been told, but I assumed I must be,' he says. 'Well, you've done it - now I do feel old!' Hugh is a cracking fella, a gle, and an albatross wrapped in a hole in a single. He hasn't played at a ball in a decade because it's difficult to believe a team, but he could still beat it up in his seventies if he could have swung it around in a swan's.

Tennis is on standby as Roger Federer (inset) prepares for his final match at the Laver Cup next weekend, and the entire sporting world will follow. Despite sharing the spotlight with Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in recent years, the Swiss star has been on the front page of tennis for nearly two decades, and his retirement from the sport will no doubt be felt in years to come. When the 20-time Grand Slam champion announced his retirement on Thursday that it was beyond tennis, it transcended tennis. Millions of people were moved by his retirement, both inside and outside the sport world. Following Federer's retirement from tennis, So Sportsmail has ranked ten outstanding sports stars from LeBron James (left), to Tiger Woods (right), as well as veteran footballers Cristiano Ronaldo (top center) and Lionel Messi (bottom center).