PHIL DRIVER KO

FROM BACK PAGE practise on the links in Southport. He said: “We spent Saturday and Sunday in the conditions and wind. There wasn’t a driver for me until 15 given the way I want to play the course and avoid the bunkers. “Even on 15, 16, 17, 18, where you could hit a driver, it wasn’t the right fit and there is another couple of clubs I want to have in the bag instead. “I will put in the three-wood I used at Muirfield in 2013, it is a hot three-wood and I can still get a lot out of it. “It is a much easier club for me to hit low so even if I am into the wind I hit it every bit as far as a driver. I have also added two three-irons.”