Faldo reveals that he considered quitting golf

NICK FALDO revealed yesterday that he was close to giving up golf for good little more than a year ago.

But such thoughts are far from the 45-year-old's mind now after an opening five-under-par 66 left him just one behind leader Robert Karlsson in the Omega European Masters in Switzerland.

After missing the halfway cut in the British Open championship for the second time in three years at Lytham last summer, Faldo was in the mood to pack it all in.