ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A large sinkable hole opened up in Guatemala City as Tropical Storm Agatha destroyed homes across Central America, killing 132 people.

But he could have closed the gap on Race to Dubai leader Kaymer, who took EUR76,700 for 10th place, even further had he holed a long eagle putt or a more sinkable birdie effort on the 18th at the Sentosa course.

Coining to a polling booth near you - The Sinkable Gordon Brown.

TIGER WOODS threw his ball into the water after missing another sinkable putt and his bad karma must have went with it as he roared back into contention.

But as the 1998 "awards season" wore on and both the Grammys and the Oscars enjoyed big surges of their own, thanks in part to monumental public interest in the film "Titanic" and its soundtrack, suspicion grew that NBC's Globes breakthrough was more sinkable than golden.