DONALD'S DISLIKE:WORLD number one Luke Donald – enjoying a stellar season that has him a runaway leader of the European Tour's Race to Dubai standings – heads into the season's final Major believing the Atlanta Athletic Club course set-up is "very-very good" and the conditioning "spectacular".

But he does have one reservation: the length of the Par 3s, with one hole – the 15th – measuring 260 yards. “I’ve never been a big fan of long Par 3s. I think some of the world’s greatest Par 3s are very short. The 7th at Pebble Beach, the 12th at Augusta, the Postage Stamp (at Troon). I hit a rescue (on the 15th) and it just seems like you take a little bit of the skill out of it when it’s a long hole.”