Faldo clarifies friendly comments

YOU’VE been making a mountain out of a molehill! That was the message from Nick Faldo to the assembled golfing media at Carnoustie yesterday as he made little of his controversial comments about European golfers being too friendly to go out and win a major championship.

“It was only an observation,” he insisted. “A couple of years ago at an event in America, three of the four leaders on a Sunday were having lunch together. I thought, wow, that was different to my era.

“And this week I was at a press conference with Seve and we both sort of agreed, that’s not what we were like in our day.