sweden's annika sorenstam a 3—time vice captain leads the europeans.e wasn't always comfortable in the spotlight. i've always been a shy person and i still am quite shy and being in the situation i am, in the golfing limelight, you've got to open up a little bit and do a few interviews here and there is i've learnt a lot about myself and to face my fear but just try to be yourself and be as natural as you can, that has taught me the most and as a little girl, i did not feel that comfortable. i would miss shots on purpose if i needed to and mr green and i would make a bogey, finish second or third and still get a prize but i don't have to give a winning speech. i was terrified of being on the podium and having all eyes on me and just felt very uncomfortable and eventually, in my mind, just being very competitive and leaving a tournament knowing i threw it all away, that wasn't going to last forever so eventually, i won a tournament and my dad said, why don't you bring your five iron up my dad said, why don't you bring yourfive iron up on stage my dad sa

and in sport, europe captain annika sorenstam is hoping careful planning will help them regain the solheimhe event begins in ireland later on. —— in iowa. it's emerged that the defence secretary sir michael fallon has personally apologised to the mother of a soldier killed in a lightly armoured snatch land rover in iraq. the bbc has seen the letter sent to sue smith, whose son, private philip hewett, died in a bombing in 2005. now other families who lost sons in a similar way say that they too should receive a similar apology — as our legal affairs correspondent clive coleman reports. sue smith's son, private philip hewett, was killed by an improvised explosive device while travelling in a lightly armoured snatch land rover in iraq injuly 2005. sue hoped an inquest due to last five days would provide answers about the snatch, and how philip died, but it lasted just three hours. she found the inability to get answers from the ministry of defence maddening. sometimes i felt like theyjust wanted me to either go away or die. or be ill. you know, so i would give up. i couldn't give up. in 2013,