LOOKING FORWARD

as well after being bunkered, having birdied that the previous day.

It quickly turned into the same battle he’d been faced with on Saturday after a pulled tee shot at the sixth led to a double-bogey at the difficult sixth and a bogey at the tenth then dropped him to four-over for the day. As had been the case in the third round, he played better over the closing stretch, though a bogey at the last took a bit of gloss off that eagle, which had followed a birdie two holes earlier.

“I played poorly today. I didn’t execute my shots well,” admitted Ramsay, who finished a shot ahead of David Drysdale, the only other Scot out of seven starters to make it to the weekend, after he closed with a 70. “The week was summed up by the last hole where I played a lovely tee shot and my second shot ran off the back of the green and then I didn’t get it in the hole from six feet.

“It was good but not good enough. I’m sure when I go away and reflect

“I can hit it as straight as anybody off the tee and my ball striking can be really good but my game needs to be way sharper. It’s as simple as that. It’s very small margins”

RICHIE RAMSAY on it I’ll be a bit happier about it. It was great to play close to the last few groups on the weekend of a major. It reaffirms the same things that I believe in – if you don’t have a sharp short-game and if you’re not strong mentally, that’s the difference.

“I can hit it as straight as anybody