Langer and Jacobson in British Open

Bernhard Langer, last year’s European Ryder Cup captain, and Fredrik Jacobson, the player he left out of his team, were both called into the British Open championship today.

Langer was the first to receive the call-up to St Andrews – the course on which he finished second to Seve Ballesteros in 1984 – when Japan’s Shingo Katayama withdrew because of injury.