Form comes at a price for Donald

LUKE Donald was counting the cost of his charge up the leaderboard at the Masters after a four-under-par 68 sent him into the top 10 at Augusta National last night.

Donald is donating $5000 (€3,450) for every birdie he sinks to the Japanese earthquake relief fund. Three birdies and an eagle set the Englishman back $25,000 (€17,262) on Thursday and seven more yesterday means a further dent in the prize fund.

“It is something I decided to do having close ties with Mizuno, a Japanese company. I felt that it would be a good thing to do and I am happy to help out,” Donald said.