Time for talking to stop for Faldo

In what he calls “the start of my mini-season”, Nick Faldo this week plays his first tournament in America since pulling out of the Masters with back trouble last April.

Europe’s next Ryder Cup captain, now 48 and an analyst for ABC television in the States, is in the last year of his 10-year US Tour exemption from winning the 1996 Masters and is switching from the commentary booth back to the course to prepare for his return to Augusta.