No open skies for golf

AFTER this weekend's wet and windy weather, signs are not good for the next big event of the Scottish calendar: The Open.

Aberdeen managed to hit just 13C on Saturday while Gravesend in Kent managed 30.9C, the warmest in the UK, leaving Scots admiring the summer weather to the south.

And while Scotland is forecast to have relatively dry weather early this week, come the start of The Open at the Old Course in St Andrews, the rain is forecast to return.

Much of Scotland will relive the wet and wild conditions of the weekend by Wednesday, conditions Japanese golfer Ryo Ishikawa compared to typhoons back home.

The 18-year-old said of the Loch Lomond conditions on Sunday: "It was the worst I have played in."

Met Office forecaster Rebekah Sherwin said tomorrow would be mostly dry in Scotland but Wednesday would welcome rain moving north.