THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2017 SPORTS

Dortmund’s Schuerrle out Hartley tells Tuilagi, Newcastle sign Spanish for a month with injury Solomona to make amends striker Joselu from Stoke BERLIN: World Cup-winner Andre Schuerrle is set to miss the first four weeks of the LONDON: England captain Dylan Hartley has told Manu Tuilagi and LONDON: Rafael Benitez’s frustration at missing out on several transfer targets new after tearing his thigh muscle, Borussia Dortmund confirmed yesterday. His Denny Solomona to prove they are worthy of a recall after being sent abated a little as Spanish striker Joselu yesterday agreed a move to Newcastle latest setback means Schuerrle will miss Dortmund’s trip to Wolfsburg on Saturday in home early from a pre-season training camp. Hartley said Leicester United from Stoke City. The 27-year-old, who scored just four times for Stoke in their opening league match of the new season. The 26-year-old has been dogged by centre Tuilagi and Sale wing Solomona “let us down” when they broke 27 appearances, cost Newcastle a reported £5 million (5.4m euros, $6.4m) and injury since joining Dortmund in July 2016 for 30 million euros ($35.2m) from signed a three year contract. “I feel very happy because I have Wolfsburg. He was signed to much fanfare but struggled for form last England’s code of conduct in an incident reported to have been alco- signed for a very big club,” he told the club website. “I’m very season, managing just two goals and three assists in 15 hol related. Tuilagi and Solomona were dismissed from training by games. The highlight was his equaliser in Borussia’s 2-2 draw with England coach Eddie Jones on August 7 and their Test careers are now happy to be part of this club, and so excited. I’m looking for- Real Madrid in the group stages of the Champions League. Last in jeopardy. But Hartley believes both players can still earn an interna- ward to getting to know my team-mates, the city, the train- Saturday, Schuerrle played in Dortmund’s 4-0 German Cup win at tional recall if they buckle down. “We’re a team and as a team we set ing ground, the stadium and all the supporters,” added minnows Rielasingen-Arlen, who play in the sixth tier of German foot- our own standards off the field. And ultimately those guys let us down Joselu, who spent last season on loan with Deportivo La ball, but his torn thigh means he is out until mid-September at the ear- in that area,” Hartley said. “We’re a team and we’ve got a code of con- Coruna. Joselu, who will compete with and liest. New signing Maximilian Philipp, who Dortmund bought from duct that we adhere to. “The team dealt with it and I’m sure those Aleksandar Mitrovic for a place up front, is Benitez’s sixth Freiburg for 20 million euros in July, looks set to replace Schuerrle, players will have their heads down and be working hard now to get summer signing but the former Liverpool manager has whose cross Mario Goetze converted to score the winning goal back in the picture. “It’s unfortunate for them, but you make decisions, expressed his frustration at missing out on other targets such for Germany in the 2014 World Cup final. —AFP you’ve got to live with those decisions.” —AFP as Arsenal’s misfiring Spaniard Lucas Perez. —AFP Leave Pettersen alone, US skipper urges fans

CHICAGO: United States captain Juli deal,” Inkster said Tuesday. “It won’t be on Inkster on Tuesday urged fans not to heckle our side and not on her side. Europe star Suzann Pettersen at this week’s “I hope they (the fans) don’t heckle her, I Solheim Cup, two years after a bitter con- hope they respect her and respect her play. troversy involving the Norwegian player. It was two years ago and we’ve moved on. I Pettersen was at the centre of an acri- think she’s moved on as well.” monious spat at the 2015 edition of the Inkster however said the tournament -style event when she refused to rules committee had instructed teams to give Alison Lee a short putt during a crucial designate one player in each pairing who foursomes game. had responsibility to concede putts in The Norwegian’s controversial move left order to avoid the sort of scenes that erupt- Lee in tears and stoked a furious backlash ed in 2015. from American players, who subsequently “I think the rules committee are going to overturned a 10-6 deficit heading into the do that. You’ve got to have one person in singles to claim victory. the group who’s in charge of giving putts. Pettersen initially insisted she had not And that way we don’t have any controver- done anything wrong but later issued an sy,” Inkster said. apology declaring that she was “gutted and Inkster, who was critical of Pettersen’s truly sad” about her actions. actions at the time, said she had spoken to “I am so sorry for not thinking about the the player in the immediate aftermath of bigger picture in the heat of the battle and the row and was confident the matter was competition,” said Pettersen, the current now closed. world number 23 who will be playing in her “I spoke with her on the Monday morn- ninth Solheim Cup this weekend. ing after the Sunday. We had a nice chat. I It remains to be seen whether galleries haven’t brought it up since and she hasn’t at Des Moines Golf and Country Club in either,” she said. Iowa will give Pettersen a pass for her 2015 “It’s over with, it’s done. Our team’s not actions. talking about it, I’m sure the European But US captain Inkster is among those team’s not talking about it, I’m not sure hoping the controversy of two years ago why we’re talking about it.” Opening four- will be forgotten. somes in the tournament get under way “I really don’t think it’s going to be a big tomorrow. —AFP

CHARLOTTE: Rickie Fowler watches his tee shot on the third hole during the third round of the PGA Championship golf tourna- ment at the Quail Hollow Club, in Charlotte. —AP

GOLF Fowler keeps celebrating everyone else’s majors

CHARLOTTE: Rickie Fowler, golf’s version of an pared with his colleagues’, many of them had a long eagle putt on the final hole that action hero, keeps showing up too late to save younger, all of them in full stride. would have forced a playoff. himself at the majors. His final six holes at the Compared with his own standard, it was a Fowler should be too young to be consid- PGA Championship were nothing short of step to the side at best, but certainly not for- ered the best without a major except that four remarkable, the very reason why Fowler should ward. Three years ago, Fowler joined Jack players younger than him already have at least remain in the category of “when” and not “if” as it Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only players to one - Spieth, Thomas, Rory McIlroy and Brooks relates to winning a major. finish in the top 5 at all four majors (Spieth has Koepka. At worst, he has become a sentimental Seemingly out of contention, Fowler holed a since joined them). The difference is the other choice because of the growing number of 20-foot birdie putt on No. 12 (one of only four three all won a major in those years. chances and the gracious manner he treats birdies in the final round) and hit his tee shot on Fowler is still 28. He has played only 30 people. the 13th to 8 feet for another birdie. He drove majors as a pro. The talent is there, and so is the Maybe the time spent celebrating everyone the 14th green to 40 feet for a two-putt birdie, ability to deliver big moments. He showed that else’s majors will pay off. “You can learn so much then nearly holed a chip on the par-5 15th for a when he won The Players Championship in 2015 from watching your friends play well and get the fourth straight birdie. and the Scottish Open later that summer. job done,” Fowler said. “It’s fun to see. It also That whipped social media, along with practi- , now with five majors and motivates you to want to go out and push your- cally all of Quail Hollow, into a frenzy because three legs of the career Grand Slam, had a com- self to another level.” everyone loves Fowler and he loves them back. parable major championship record to Fowler at The old guard might question Fowler’s fire by But he ran out of holes. Fowler figured he would that age. In his first 30 majors as a pro, Mickelson his willingness to smile and celebrate majors he need two more birdies, and that nasty three- had three veritable chances to win. He was one wants for himself. That’s simply the way he was Tiger Woods hole stretch known as the “Green Mile” didn’t shot out of the lead at Shinnecock Hills in the brought up. “We always kept everything posi- give any player more than one in the final round. 1995 US Open, had the 36-hole lead at Valhalla tive,” his father once said. “Even if he hit a bad He still managed to keep slim hopes alive by in the 1996 PGA Championship and lost to a 15- shot, we only talk about the good shots that he making a pair of 8-foot par putts that he couldn’t foot putt by Payne Stewart at Pinehurst No. 2 in hit. We never brought up any negative talk. He Woods had marijuana afford to miss. Heroic stuff. the 1999 US Open. knew if he hit a bad shot. We didn’t need to say The knock on Mickelson shouldn’t have been anything.” GOOD STEP that he had not won a major by then, but that The skill is there. Only Fowler knows how in system at arrest Still, the closest he came to the Wanamaker with all his talent he didn’t give himself enough much he feels the sting of watching others claim Trophy was when he posed for a picture with its chances. After eight full years on the PGA Tour, majors. His greatest asset going forward might FORT LAUDERDALE: Tiger Woods had the without medical assistance,” said Woods, new owner, Justin Thomas, a good friend who Mickelson already had 16 victories. be a positive attitude, something Sergio Garcia active ingredient for marijuana, two who completed an out-of-state drug treat- lives down the street from him in Florida. Fowler was missing for so many years before he finally painkillers and two sleep drugs in his sys- ment program last month. “I am continuing also waited behind a year ago to see Jimmy SENTIMENTAL CHOICE won the Masters. tem when he was arrested on a DUI charge to work with my doctors, and they feel I’ve Walker polish off victory at Baltusrol to win the Fowler is wrapping up his eighth full year and The best example was at Erin Hills, when earlier this year, a report released Tuesday made significant progress.” same trophy. And he was at the 18th green a has four PGA Tour titles. He also has seven top 5s Fowler started the final round of the U.S. Open by police said. Woods is scheduled to plead guilty to month ago at Royal Birkdale to see Jordan in the majors, though he has shown a bad habit two shots out of the lead and faded from view. Police in Jupiter, Florida, released the reckless driving Oct. 25 and enter the coun- Spieth clutch the claret jug. of starting slowly, whether it was the Masters He was asked that afternoon about the disap- report less than a week after the golf super- ty’s diversion program. Under the plea deal, Asked to assess this year in the majors, and British Open in 2014 or the Masters and the pointment of not winning his first major. “If star agreed to enter a diversion program to prosecutors would drop the DUI charge, Fowler wrapped it up with three sentences: US Open this year. His best chance was in the you look at the negatives too much,” he said, settle his driving while intoxicated charges. which is a more severe charge than reckless “Nice coming off of last year. Made all the cuts. 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla, where he “you’re going to be stuck doing that the whole The report’s contents were first reported driving. In the diversion program, Woods That’s a good step.” It was a baby step com- made only one mistake on the back nine and time.” —AP Monday by ESPN. will spend a year on probation and pay a The report, prepared by the Palm Beach $250 fine and court costs. He would also County Sheriff’s Office, says Woods, 41, had have to attend DUI school, perform 50 NFL THC, the active ingredient for marijuana; as hours of community service and attend a well as the painkillers Vicodin and workshop where victims of impaired driv- Dilaudid; the anxiety and sleep drug ers detail how their lives were damaged. Goodell talks anthem protest, urges outreach Xanax; and the anti-insomnia drug Ambien Since the program began four years ago, in his system when he was arrested at 2 almost 2,400 defendants have enrolled, LOS ANGELES: National Football Sunday to raise awareness of racism programs rather than protest the in the fan forum actually and we were a.m. May 29 about 15 miles from his home according to the Palm Beach County State League chief Roger Goodell has and intolerance. anthem. “I think it’s one of those talking about this and they were in Jupiter. Officers had found him uncon- Attorney’s Office. encouraged players to engage in Bennett’s protest followed an things where I think we have to asked the same question. And they scious in his Mercedes-Benz, which was If Woods completes the program, he can community outreach in the wake of identical snub by Oakland Raiders understand that there are people said you know, there’s a time and a parked awkwardly on the side of the road ask a judge to expunge the reckless driving fresh protests against running back Marshawn Lynch, who with different viewpoints,” Goodell place.” and had damage to the driver’s side. It’s conviction. His 79 PGA Tour victories and 14 anthem during pre-season games. also remained seated during the said. “It’s something that I think every- “And that’s what we all have to not clear how he damaged the car. Officers major titles both rank No. 2 all-time. He has Goodell told an Arizona Cardinals anthem at a preseason game against body wants. The national anthem is a sort of understand. The responsibility checked the area but didn’t find that he not competed since February because of his fan forum on Monday that while it Arizona. special moment to me. It’s a point of of doing it at the right time and in the had hit anything. back injury and is not expected to return was important to embrace different It came amid nationwide soul- pride. That is a really important right way. And what we see is a lot of Woods issued a statement Tuesday say- this year. His last win was in August 2013. viewpoints, there was a “time and a searching following violent clashes in moment. players going into the community ing he had been trying on his own to treat Woods said his back is improving. “I place” to speak out. Virginia on Saturday linked to a “But we also have to understand and really taking the platform they his insomnia and pain from his fourth back recently spoke to my surgeon and he’s very The NFL Commissioner’s remarks demonstration by white nationalists, the other side that people do have have and being active and creating surgery, which he underwent in April. He pleased with how my fusion is healing. I’m came after Seattle Seahawks player neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members. rights and we want to respect those. dialogue and actually making really did not specifically address the marijuana right on schedule. I’m now doing some light Michael Bennett sat through a rendi- Goodell suggested he would pre- But I was with the Jets a few weeks positive change. And that’s what I issue. None was found in his possession. lifting, riding a stationary bike and putting a tion of the Star Spangled Banner on fer players to engage in community ago and one of the players was there think is so important.” —AFP “I realize now it was a mistake to do this little,” he said. —AP