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Tiger Woods yesterday provided the perfect advertisement for the single life when shooting a 65, his best score of the year. Three days after his divorce came through, Woods finally began to look like the world No 1 again when blazing a trail in the first round of The Barclays in New Jersey.

As if Colin Montgomerie hasn't enough to think about in this run-up to making his three picks, the Ryder Cup captain must also be wary of a betting scam staged by "unscrupulous insiders". A source inside the European Tour yesterday revealed the Scot will be "on his guard" to ensure his selections do not leak out before his team announcement here on Sunday night.

Injured Ross McGowan pulled out of the Johnnie Walker Championship after an
opening 77 at Gleneagles today - and cannot now qualify for Europe's Ryder
Cup team.

Colin Montgomerie rose to protect the honour of the "FedEx Four" yesterday, which may sound like he has joined the Bar and was defending a heist gang. He hasn't and wasn't. Montgomerie is the Ryder Cup captain and was defending the honour of the wild cards he will almost certainly pick here on Sunday evening.

Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren said she has "been through hell" since her
husband's infidelity surfaced but she never hit him, according to an
interview released today.

Edoardo Molinari believes his form and desire are more deserving of a wildcard than the four European heavyweights who have chosen to play in America this week rather than the Ryder Cup's final qualifying event here.

The divorce is finally through – Tiger Woods will tee it up as a single man on Thursday for the first time since the Amex Championship in 2004. That week, in Cork Harbour, Ireland, Woods finished ninth. Then such a result was regarded as something of a setback. At The Barclays this week it would be considered a turnaround.

Another day brought yet another reason to question the priorities of the "FedEx Four". Miguel Angel Jimenez yesterday showed Paul Casey, Padraig Harrington, Justin Rose and Luke Donald just what commitment to the Ryder Cup cause entails when scrapping long-laid family plans to enter this week's concluding qualifying event.

Colin Montgomerie will have to leave out one of Paul Casey, Padraig Harrington, Luke Donald and Justin Rose when he names his three Ryder Cup wild cards on Sunday. That much became certain when Peter Hanson won the Czech Open yesterday.

Humiliation is never far away from a hacker and I had my latest ration on a crowded first tee in west Wales on Wednesday.