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Sat 09 Sep 2007Faldo's tinkering begins to pay offSome would say, rather cruelly perhaps, that the two teams battling it out - manfully, as it transpires - in this latest edition of the Seve Trophy at The Heritage at Killenard in Co Laois are of the patched up variety. Marc Warren, though, inadvertently provided some substance to that insinuation when a bedroom accident on Thursday night meant he turned up on the first tee for yesterday's second series of fourballs as the original Mr Band-Aid.Warren, a rookie on the Britain and Ireland team, suffered wounds to his abdomen and arms when he shattered a chandelier in his hotel bedroom, apparently while perfecting his swing with a five-iron.