HAND INJURY PUTS JAMIE McLEARY OUT FOR FIVE WEEKS

Edinburgh-based Challenge Tour player Jamie McLeary can't swing a club for the next five weeks. He's been playing with a painful hand and wrist injury for several weeks. It's now been diagnosed as a fractured bone called the "hook of the hamate."

It is caused by the top of the grips hitting the base of the hand repeatedly. Apparently a common injury among tennis and baseball players but not so often in golf.

McLeary tells readers of "The Scotsman" today:

"Unfortunately, it means I'll miss the Scottish Hydro Challenge at Spey Valley, where I won two years ago and was looking forward to returning in a few weeks' time with the other members of Team Scottish Hydro."