Casey comments prove costly

The fall-out from Paul Casey’s anti-American comments have taken a new and potentially expensive twist with his sponsor Acushnet – makers of Titleist clubs and balls – announcing they will not be renewing his contract next season.

Casey, who with Luke Donald was trying to defend a five-stroke halfway lead for England in the World Cup in Seville today, told a journalist following September’s Ryder Cup win: “We properly hate them.”