Donald ready to come of age

LUKE DONALD was clearly not ready when he was thrown in with Tiger Woods at the 2003 British Open championship. But this week looks different.

At Sandwich, Donald was not in the world’s top 100, had played in only four majors -making the halfway cut in just one of them.

“I felt quite nervous on the first tee,” he remembers. “But Tiger went right, lost a ball and made seven. I felt a bit better after that.” Nevertheless, with rounds of 76 and 79 he, not surprisingly, made another early exit.