Furyk DQ’d after Barclays sleep-in

WORLD number six Jim Furyk has been disqualified from the first of the FedEx Cup play-offs in America, a day before it has even started.

Furyk was barred from The Barclays tournament in New Jersey because he overslept and missed his 7.30am tee-off in the curtain-raising pro-am.

The Ryder Cup star, who will win his seventh cap against Europe at Celtic Manor in October, was third in the play-off standings, but will now have to wait and see how much his blunder affects him in the four-tournament series.