Higgins: Club blunder was my fault

Ireland’s David Higgins has accepted full responsibility for the blunder which cost him the chance of a place in the Open Championship at Muirfield.

Higgins discovered he had 15 clubs in his bag – one more than permitted – on the first hole of a play-off in Local Final Qualifying at North Berwick yesterday, the two-shot penalty ending his hopes and seeing opponents Gareth Wright and George Murray progress.