Carnoustie call-up for Green

AUSTRALIAN Richard Green received a call-up to the British Open Championship yesterday after American Woody Austin’s decision not to travel to Carnoustie next week.

Austin and Hunter Mahan earned places on Sunday off a mini-Order of Merit on the US Tour, but Austin said: “I don’t know how to play that type of golf and I would probably go over there and shoot two high numbers and make a fool of myself.”

The 43-year-old, who last month won his third Tour title at the Stanford St Jude Championship and has career earnings of almost £5million, has played in the Open just once, missing the halfway cut at Royal Lytham in 1996.