No women likely at British Open

The chances of Michelle Wie and other women playing in this year's British Open Golf Championship for the first time have faded almost to nil. With the LPGA Tour Women's World Matchplay event starting on July 6 in the US and regional qualifying for the...

The chances of Michelle Wie and other women playing in this year's British Open Golf Championship for the first time have faded almost to nil.

With the LPGA Tour Women's World Matchplay event starting on July 6 in the US and regional qualifying for the British Open scheduled for July 5 there will be no eligible women players trying to qualify for the men's major.

The Royal and Ancient Club, which runs the championship, agreed last year to allow women to play if they qualified.

There was a potential for 20 women professionals to take up their British Open regional qualifying entries this year with the top five finishers from the four women's majors eligible.

But the Royal and Ancient said yesterday at a Championship preview meeting that all the potential qualifiers had committed themselves to the Women's World Matchplay.

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