Faldo and Monty head home early

Colin Montgomerie and Nick Faldo, former Ryder Cup partners and two of British golf’s biggest names, could not stop the rot at St Leon-Rot today.

Montgomerie, his marriage break-up clearly making it impossible for him to focus properly on anything else, crashed out of the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open in Heidelberg on a sorry nine over par and further down the field than at any time in Europe since his professional debut in 1987.