Open: Scot Richie Ramsay wants confident display

Richie Ramsay starts yesterday's practice round. Picture: Jane Barlow

RICHIE Ramsay, the last man into the 156-strong field at St Andrews, makes no excuses for trying to get better. It’s what drives him every day and he won’t be happy if this opportunity – he came off the reserve list on Sunday when Tim Clark withdrew – isn’t grabbed with both hands.

“I just want to do myself justice,” said the Aberdonian before heading out for his second practice round of the week, having been joined at the home of golf by coach Ian Rae after his return from Sweden, where he masterminded Scotland’s win in the European Team Championship last weekend.

“I crave the ability to be the best I can be and do everything I can. If I do that, then I will hold my head up high. If I don’t then it drives me bananas. I just don’t like it and I don’t like the person I am when I don’t give 100 per cent. I don’t like the person I am when I don’t search out new ways of getting better. That is something you either have or don’t have, it is not something you can work with. I am just trying to get 
better.”