Funk hits the jackpot

Fred Funk, a 48-year-old with one victory in the last seven years, has become the oldest-ever winner of golf’s richest event.

Funk captured the €6.5m Players Championship by getting up and down from a greenside bunker at the last – and was able to start celebrating a remarkable victory minutes later when England’s Luke Donald agonisingly missed his 22-foot birdie attempt from just over the back of the green.