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 TV View: "This is your 7am alarm call," said David Livingstone who, along with Nick Faldo, Butch Harmon and Ronan Rafferty, must surely have slept in Sky Sports' K Club studio overnight to have been on duty in time.

The last time we were up this early for telly sport was for the 2000 Olympic Games, it wasn't until yesterday we discovered Kildare was in the same time zone as Sydney.