"You have to be patient here and realise that the same kind of thing is happening to everybody else."

In all of this worldly turmoil, it's comforting to know some things never change. Like players hating Valderrama, as Lawrence Donegan reports after day one of the final Volvo Masters:

The players are never less than respectful about the course but they are occasionally given to grumbling about its difficulty and unfairness.

"I hit a great tee shot on the 8th tee and still ended up behind trees," Westwood said pointedly. "You have to be patient here and realise that the same kind of thing is happening to everybody else."