Just two places remain to be filled in the Open championship - one at the Scottish Open and the other at the US Tour's John Deere Classic, where 16-year-old Michelle Wie is again the main attraction.

The spots are on offer to the leading non-exempt player when the tournaments finish, but they have to be in the top 10.

Wie, of course, would become the first woman ever to compete in the Open if she made it through, but she has yet to make a halfway cut on the US Tour in four attempts and that is her goal.

With four to play in the second round of the same event last year the teenager, then an amateur, was one inside the cut line, but then came a double bogey on her 15th hole and she missed out by two.

"I made a couple bad decisions, but I was only 15," she told pgatour.com. "I can make mistakes when I'm 15. Hopefully, I learned from those mistakes and hopefully I won't do them this year.

Wie has made a cut against men in South Korea and has finished third in two of the three women's majors this year.