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Wednesday, 26 April 2006 |
Women golfers are not likely at this year's Open
There are not likely to be any women golfers participating in this year's Open in spite of the Royal and Ancient Club's decision to allow them to try to qualify.
All the potential qualifiers have chosen to play in the Women's World Matchplay event, which is on at the same time as the Open qualifying tournaments.
Teenage sensation Michelle Wie could still qualify to play at Hoylake but to do this she would have to be the highest non-exempt finisher at the previous week's John Deere Classic.
Michelle Wie has so far failed to make the cut in any of the men's PGA Tour events in which she has played.
The Royal and Ancient Club's Peter Dawson said: "The deadline for entries for qualifying is 1 June but as yet, no women players have entered.
"It is still possible we will get women entries and I personally very much hope we will. When we devised the dates for qualifying there was no LPGA event around that week."
Peter Dawson also announced that local final qualifying would take place this year on the Monday and Tuesday of the week before the Championship, 10 and 11 July, rather than on the Sunday and Monday of tournament week.
"It allows the qualifiers the same chance to practise on an Open course as the players already exempt, instead of them having to dash over from local final qualifying," Peter Dawson explained.
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