McGrane ’right to give Lara heads up’

Damien McGrane confessed he felt bound to advise Jose Manuel Lara he had caught his caddy trying to hide an illegal 15th club in bushes during Thursday’s first round of the BMW International Open.

Lara was eventually disqualified while Mathias Vinson, his Argentinian-born caddy has been banned ‘indefinitely’ from working on the European Tour.

McGrane had been last to tee off at the second but thought it strange when Vinson, carrying Lara’s bag, headed into thick bushes at the back of the tee.