Els plans course change

Ernie Els struggled to explain what he called a “wacky, ridiculous, crazy” round of 72 at Wentworth today – and then revealed that he plans to react to criticism of one of the holes.

Els was hired by the Surrey club to toughen up the famous West Course, but no end of players have thought during this week’s BMW PGA championship that he went too far by bringing in water on both sides of the drive down the long 12th.