Johnson, who returned to international hockey this year after the birth of her first child, will add experience, and with her tenacious tackling seems certain to line up in the centre of the back four with Karen Brown. They should provide a formidable partnership.Eight of the squad won bronze medals in Barcelona, and for three, Brown, Jill Atkins and Jane Sixsmith, Atlanta will be their third Olympics.Britain play the Pan-Am champions, Argentina, at Lilleshall on 21/22 May.GREAT BRITAIN WOMEN'S OLYMPIC SQUAD: H Rose, J Sixsmith, M Davies (Sutton Canada Life), K Brown, M Nicholls, A Bennett (Slough), J Thompson (Ipswich), J Atkins (Bradford Swithenbank), K Johnson, J Mould (Balsam Leicester), T Miller (Clifton), T Cullen, C Cook (Hightown) (all England); S Fraser, P Robertson (Bonagrass Grove), R Simpson (Edinburgh Ladies) (all Scotland).. The omission of Sue MacDonald, Glasgow Western's 27-year-old striker, was the major surprise in the Great Britain women's squad announced yesterday for the Atlanta Olympics. MacDonald, the leading goal-scorer during the Olympic build-up programme, is one of three players to lose their place from the squad who qualified for Atlanta in Cape Town last November. Lucy Cope and Scotland's Diane Renilson also drop out. Britain's manager, Jenny Cardwell, said: "We felt that the chosen strikers had the edge on speed and versatility," referring to the Slough pair of Mandy Nicholls and Anna Bennett.Leicester's Kath Johnson and Jo Mould and Hightown's Tina Cullen are the three additions to the squad from Cape Town. The towering Scot made his amateur farewell when completing two rounds in the US Masters in April, but he had to miss his scheduled debut in last week's Italian Open through a bout of tonsillitis.Sherry said yesterday his illness had not been helped by concerns over which set of clubs to play in his rookie year."I really think I made myself ill over knowing I had to let someone down. It's not a nice feeling but there was no way I could avoid it."Five Scots who have won on the European Tour will also line up at Dalmahoy: Paul Lawrie, Adam Hunter, Stephen McAllister, Andy Oldcorn and Raymond Russell, who won the Cannes Open a fortnight ago..

His disappointing US Masters has been swiftly dismissed, but his putting is causing a "minor concern"."You have to hole out regularly to win rather than be in the top 10 I am pushing most of my putts and I am working on it. I would expect to hole half the 10-footers I have, and I am only holing two or three out of 10." These are problems Ballesteros can only dream about.n Gordon Sherry makes his professional debut in the Scottish PGA Championship at Dalmahoy today. "My golf is fine and I have everything to look forward to," the Scot said.Montgomerie, who last week finished seventh in a tournament in Thailand, returns to Europe with a record of played one, won one - though, geographically, it came in Dubai - and four top-10s in six events overall. Rarely can Ball- esteros have arrived at a tournament he won the year before with such low expectations. Not only is the Spaniard not playing like a defending champion, he should not even be playing.

After the Turespana Masters two weeks ago, Ballesteros had liquid drained from his left wrist, which was in plasters for four days. "The doctor said I should not play for three weeks, but this is the Spanish Open and I should be here," Ballesteros said. No one knows this better than the man himself.His company, Amen Corner, are the promoters and they have already lost Jose Maria Olazabal with his continuing foot problems. Ballesteros' form was deteriorating a year ago when he was urged on by home support to his third Spanish Open title.It was like the last grand performance of a dying swan. This year, after a five-month sabbatical, his best result in six events is a next-to-last finish.In contrast, Montgomerie sees this week as the start of a six-tournament run, culminating in next month's US Open. At Club de Campo here yesterday, it was difficult to believe that the defending champion in the Peugeot Spanish Open, which starts today, was Seve Ballesteros and not Colin Montgomerie. Tomorrow Mac will defend the Ladies' Championship she won last year on Diamond.ROYAL WINDSOR HORSE SHOW: Castle Stakes: 1 Equity (C McAuley) clear, 40.68sec; 2 Carat (G Goosen) clear, 41.82; 3 Pinion Voici (J Fisher) clear, 43.74 Cob Championship: Woodlands Pippin (R Stack) Reserve: Galaxy II (J Webber)..

McAuley will also be competing here on Audacity, a Russian stallion.Emma-Jane Mac rode Grin- go to the fastest round in yesterday's jump-off, but that effort was marred by a single error which left her in sixth place. Equity could help McAuley to realise her ambition of riding for a British Nations Cup team. But the Irishman, who was last of 15 into the jump-off, clobbered the first fence on Dolly to give McAuley her long-awaited victory.Eleven-year-old Equity was bought in Belgium three and a half years ago by Jenny Willment, of Ewhurst in Surrey, who has backed McAuley for the last five years. She defeated Guy Goosen on Carat and last year's winning rider, James Fisher, on Pinion Voici. McAuley regarded Peter Charles, the European champion, as the most threatening of her rivals. Claire McAuley showed that perseverance has its reward when she rode the French-bred mare, Equity, to win the Castle Stakes on the opening day of the Royal Windsor Horse Show.