Hopes For Carnoustie

So what does Paul think of the current state of Scottish and British golf?

“There’s a number of English lads who are all doing extremely well at the moment,” he says. “England have really a lot of players high up on the world rankings; so, at the moment, Justin Rose, Paul Casey, obviously Ian Poulter who won the Houston Open in April. They have a huge number of players who are all in the top 20 of the world rankings.

“As far as Scottish lads go, obviously we are not going through a great spell at the moment,” Paul admits. “We have no one in the top 100 of the world rankings, which is obviously disappointing. All the players are disappointed about that, but we have a number of people who are capable of playing in the top 50, never mind the top 100, so it would be nice to see a couple of Scottish guys in there with a chance to win the Open in Carnoustie. Obviously it’d give everyone a bit of a boost; it would be nice to see some Scottish boys playing well.”