Van de Velde is just glad to be back

JEAN Van de Velde finally returns to golf today, 10 months on from the knee injury which threatened his career.

"It's a dream to be competing again," said the 36-year-old Frenchman, forever to be remembered for his amazing triple-bogey finish to the 1999 Open at Carnoustie.

"I was stuck in a chair basically from last July until February and there was a time when I thought I would not play again."