Here are the basics. A golf club has three parts – the head, the shaft and the grip. A standard set of golf clubs consists of three woods (the Driver, #3, and #5 fairway woods), eight irons (#3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, and PW), and a putter – that’s twelve clubs in all. According to the rules of golf, and we should all play by the rules, you can carry fourteen clubs in your bag, so many golfers add a specialty wood or another iron.

Blackburn have confirmed the signing of Yildiray Basturk from Stuttgart for the rest of the season. Yildiray Basturk joins on loan. Basturk, a Turkish international with 49 caps for his national team, has joined Rovers initially until the end of the 2009-10 campaign and will add a wealth of experience to the ranks having played at the highest level in Europe.

This was the last change for Besiktas and Manchester United’s youngsters made an assured start to this Champions League group game at Old Trafford. Teenage striker Danny Welbeck saw his shot blocked by Ibrahim Toraman while Ji-Sung Park’s long-range strike was parried by keeper Rustu Recber.

The game- rugby was discovered in 1823 when William Webb Ellis, while playing a football game, he held the ball with his hands and ran forward with the ball towards the opposition’s goal. The feat was unprecedented in football and marked the beginning of present-day rugby football with its diversified Rugby rules.

McLaren wants winning run to continue Steve McClaren's FC Twente side will be looking to build on their impressive start to the season with victory over Moldovan champions FC Sheriff in the Europa League on Thursday.

Edin Dzeko was the chief culprit as Wolfsburg missed a hatful of fine chances to draw their Champions League Group B match with Besiktas. Dzeko, who has been in scintillating form in recent weeks, had at least three glorious opportunities to break the deadlock as the Turks somehow held on for a point.

Everton crashed to thier heaviest defeat in European competition as severely-weakened team were mercilessly exposed by a sensational Benfica side in the Europa League. David Moyes’s side, who were missing 11 players, did well to match their opponents in the first half and trailed at the interval by only a 14th-minute goal from Javier Saviola.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan arrived in the western Turkish city of Bursa Wednesday to attend a Turkey-Armenia World Cup qualifier as part of the two countries' move to normalize ties after nearly a century of rift. Police have tightened security in the city, where the football match will be played on Wednesday evening. Turkish President Abdullah Gul travelled to Armenian capital Yerevan in September 2008 to watch a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier match between the two countries upon an invitation by Sargsyan on a landmark visit.

Turkey coach Fatih Terim has declared he will resign from his post after the final qualifier against Armenia on Wednesday. A 2-0 defeat to Belgium ended Turkey’s hopes of securing a place at South Africa 2010. And despite guiding the Turks to the semi-finals of Euro 2008, Terim has fallen on his sword after failing to make it to the finals. He was a hero for Turkey and he has always been.

When the draw was made for Group 5 of the European qualifying zone in November of 2007, few would have predicted anyone other than Spain and Turkey claiming the top-two spots. But nearly two years later and it is only the Spaniards who are comfortably in the driver’s seat, having secured their passage to South Africa 2010.