Price set to miss British Open

Zimbabwe’s Nick Price, winner of the British Open at Turnberry in 1994, has not entered next month’s championship at Hoylake and is set therefore to miss the event for the first time in 20 years.

The 49-year-old was runner-up to Tom Watson at Troon in 1982 and to Seve Ballesteros at Lytham in 1988, but six years later finished birdie eagle par - the eagle was a dramatic 75-foot putt – to turn a three-stroke deficit into a one-stroke victory over Jesper Parnevik.