QUOTE OF THE WEEK

‘It’s goodbye from me everyone. After 22 years, 523 events, 48 top 10s and 333 cuts made, the time has come to retire. My body what can’t do my mind still can.’ Englishman Anthony European Wall one of the tour’s most loyal footsoldiers, said an emotional farewell to touring life last week. Modestly omitting that he also won a couple of times, it says much for the 42-year-old’s popularity that his Twitter feed was filled with messages from fellow players. It seems appropriate that the man known as the Great Wall made his decision soon after the tour returned from China.