BETTER WEATHER BENEFITS WOODLAND...

FORMER US Open champion Gary Woodland pitched up at the Renaissance for the pro-am on Wednesday and found that it wasn’t much to his liking. Amid some heavy showers and strong gusts of wind, the big-hitting American found it all a bit of a struggle. Yesterday was a different story. With the course bathed in glorious sunshine, he sparkled with a six-under round of 64. ‘Yesterday was brutal with cold, wind, rain,’ he said. ‘But today the golf course was perfect.’