If the R&A went out of their way to provide qualifying over here, and these losers committed and didn't show, that is a travisty and very unproffessional. Let me offer a thought as to why these also rans did this.

I use also rans for this reason, I am guessing that most of these guys, if they make the cut, usually finish close to the bottom week in and week out. Okay, they are strugling to make it on tour. I think teir line of thinking, and this appears to be collective, is that as long as all the big boys are in Scotland their chances of a bigger payday at the BC is a real and viable choice. Now if this is the real truth behind the ones that commited and did not show then that is dispicable and I agree with league, they should be punished severly. However, I am sure quit a few figured this out and did not enter the qualifying for the Open. To them I would say this was a sound business decission.