Eagles have Parry flying high

Craig ‘Popeye’ Parry popped up with two more eagles today as he missed the Sawgrass course record by just one stroke in golf’s richest-ever event.

Having survived the halfway cut in the Players Championship in Florida with nothing to spare – he thought a closing bogey six had put him out of the £4.4million tournament – the little Australian charged from two over par to six under with a dazzling best-of-the-week 64.