Spence back in the swing after birdie

Kent’s Jamie Spence is now part of the British Open championship after a last-hole birdie in the Scottish Open.

Spence, in fact, produced three birdies in the last five holes to earn a place in the Muirfield line-up, with Dutchman Maarten Lafeber the one to miss out as a result.

The eight leading non-exempt players at Loch Lomond qualified and the others were England’s Paul Casey, Warren Bennett and John Bickerton, Australian Stephen Leaney, Argentina’s Ricardo Gonzalez and Frenchmen Marc Farry and Jean-Francois Remesy.

Seven more got in from a mini-Order of Merit which has been running since the end of May - Loch Lomond runner-up Fredrik Jacobson, England’s Ian Poulter and Gary Evans, Welshman Bradley Dredge, Dane Soren Hansen, South African Darren Fichardt and Australian Jarrod Moseley.