RUGBY’S version of the Ryder Cup may have had a subterranean profile compared to the real thing but for one player it offered belated pay-back for what happened more than 20 years ago.
Matt Burke, Australia’s full-back when England hustled the holders out of the World Cup at Newlands in 1995, achieved the pivotal victory in the inter-hemisphere Icons’ Golf tournament at the Buckinghamshire last week. And he achieved it at the expense of an opponent from that quarter-final in Cape Town of long ago, The Rugby Paper’s very own Jeremy Guscott. Burke beat him 2 & 1, a...