Sound and Furyk Jim will provide ‘total package’ as US Ryder Cup captain

Jim Furyk has been tipped to deliver the “total package” when he leads the US into battle in next year’s Ryder Cup in Paris. The 46-yearold has been appointed as winning Hazeltine captain Davis Love’s successor for the match at Le Golf National, with president Paul Levy feeling confident the PGA of America have picked the right man to try to pull off a first away win since 1993.

“For more than two decades, Jim Furyk has stood proud and tall on the American golf stage and we are thrilled to have him as our Ryder Cup captain,” said Levy.

“His accomplishments as a player are well known, but his inherent competitive spirit and leadership traits are what made his candidacy so attractive. Jim offers the total package and is well suited for the task at hand.”

The Jim Clark Rally has been suspended until the completion of a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the deaths of three people at the event in 2014.

Organisers of the Borders rally say they are “demoralised” by a ruling from the Motor Sports Association (MSA) not to give a permit for the event due to insurer’s concerns.

Iain Provan, 64, his partner Elizabeth Allan, 63, and Len Stern, 71, were killed when a car involved in the Jim Clark Rally spun off the course in May 2014. It had been an annual event dating back to 1970 to celebrate world champion Jim Clark, but it has not been held since the deaths.

The crown office announced in December an FAI will be held into the three deaths, and that of Joy Robson, 50, who was struck by a car in the Snowman Rally in Inverness in February 2013.

It will be held in Lothian and Borders, with a time and place still to be set.

Dan Wright, chairman of the Jim Clark Rally, said he received an email from the MSA which said “it would not be appropriate for MSA to issue a permit for the rally until the FAI has been completed and the sheriff has issued his findings”.