Glasses fail to fire Faldo up the field

NICK FALDO saw golf in a new light yesterday but it did not make him play any better. Wearing glasses in a tournament for the first time in his life, he managed only a three over par 75 at the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open in Heidelberg.

Wearing glasses in a tournament for the first time in his life, the 46-year-old managed only a three over par 75 at the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open in Heidelberg.

It left Faldo needing a massive improvement to avoid suffering a third successive missed cut something that has never happened to him in a European tour career totalling nearly 360 events since 1976.