Royal and Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson has backed Scotland's emerging amateur golfers to put a smile back on home fans faces in the future.

For the fourth Open in a row not one Scot finished inside the top 40 at Turnberry, with seven of the nine home favourites bowing out before the weekend.

1999 champion Paul Lawrie finished 47th with debutant David Drysdale back in 60th but it was a miserable week for the home galleries.

And Dawson said: "The Scottish amateurs have won the World amateur team championship and the European team championship in the last year so it's over to them.

"They're all very good links players as well and goodness knows why the pros haven't been doing better than they have been.

"We're funding plenty of programmes at grass-roots and amateur level so I hope that will pay off."