The expected 10 European Ryder Cup players competing at this week’s Linde German Masters in Cologne was cut to eight today.

It is the final week of the Ryder Cup race and European captain Bernhard Langer has no doubt he is in the right place - with his family, at least until the weekend.

Lee Westwood, certain of his place at Oakland Hills next month, still feels Colin Montgomerie is worthy of a Ryder Cup wild card, even though he has finished only 70th and 58th in his last two tournaments.

Nick Faldo will fully appreciate what Colin Montgomerie is going through when they play together in the first round of the British Masters at the Forest of Arden tomorrow.

Brothers-in-law Lee Westwood and Andrew Coltart both became victims of one of the most famous holes in golf at the Belfry today.

Lee Westwood looked certain to crash out of the Players Championship in Florida yesterday after finishing his second round with a quadruple bogey eight.

A clash that many people thought they might see in the Masters at Augusta in two weeks’ time has materialised in the third round of the Players Championship in Florida today.