CORRECTED - Briefs 4-Golfer Johnson dishes up Midwest menu

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LONDON, April 8 (Reuters) - Sports news in brief from around the world:

Golf - American Zach Johnson will dish up a menu with a Midwest flavour when he hosts the traditional champions dinner on Tuesday before he launches the defence of his U.S. Masters crown later this week.

"The main courses will be corn-fed beef, go figure, and then ahi tuna, if they don't want any steak," said Johnson, who was born and raised in Iowa in the American heartland.

"And then we've got some shrimp. My wife is from Amelia Island, so that's a shrimp mecca and I've got corn, obviously. I think we've got a corn casserole, if I'm not mistaken or corn pudding," he told reporters.

Motor Racing - Ferrari's Felipe Massa said it was too early to say whether the improved BMW Sauber team were serious challengers for this year's Formula One title.

"At the moment it is impossible to tell if they will help us take points away from McLaren-Mercedes or if they are a serious threat for the championship," the Brazilian, who won Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix, told www.gazzetta.it. (Editing by Sonia Oxley)