SIR NICK STICKS THE BOOT IN

AS IF Rory McIlroy calling the Masters the biggest event in golf last year wasn’t hurtful enough to the R&A — organisers of The Open, who usually count on the international players to rally to their cause on such matters — Sir Nick Faldo (right, a three-time winner of both) went one or two giant leaps further yesterday when he called the Augusta pageant ‘the biggest event in sport.’ Ouch.