Mark Roe and Jesper Parnevik, controversially disqualified from the British Open, will both be paid £8,250 for their efforts.

According to Peter Dawson, secretary of the Royal and Ancient, it took him and David Pepper, the chairman of the championship committee, "about a quarter of a nanosecond" to decide to pay the unfortunate pair.

The money is the equivalent of what the last-placed qualifier for the final two rounds would have received and can be paid if the R&A waive a condition of entry that says they have the option of not paying disqualified players.

"We pay out more often than not," said Dawson. He also reiterated he thought it unlikely the rules relating to their ejection - failing to exchange cards and so signing for a wrong score - would be changed.

"It is a central rule of golf," he said, "that people are responsible for their own score."

Dawson rejected criticism Tiger Woods felt his "normal rhythm" had been disrupted by being timed for slow play on Sunday afternoon. Pepper also pointed out individuals are not "put on the clock", only groups or pairings, and in this case Woods and Vijay Singh were 18 minutes out of place during the early holes. They had, he added, recovered by the 14th.

The championship was held by Pepper and Dawson to be "an enormous success". More than 180,000 attended, an increase of over 60,000 on the last occasion the Open was at Royal St George's, in 1993.

Dawson said: "The Mark Roe incident was obviously a great tragedy - no one ever likes to see that - and we'd be crazy not to review our procedures thoroughly, because incidents of this kind are very undesirable."

Roe is unlikely to be celebrating his winnings but he might take some satisfaction from the R&A's plans to review their procedures.

"I don't feel I made a mistake on Saturday - it was a clerical error, it was nothing to do with the game of golf, it was a piece of paper.

"My score was 67. I went through the events in my mind . . . the only thing I remember was checking my total four times and then handing it to the gentleman. I remember him saying clearly 'congratulations Mr Roe, great score'. I do remember, very clearly, 'nice score, two signatures, well played'.