Familiar name set for Open

There could be another Seve in next week's Open championship - and he is English, not Spanish.

Wentworth amateur Seve Benson, named after three-time Open champion Seve Ballesteros when he was born in 1986, added a 73 to his opening 69 in the final qualifying competition at windy Wallasey today.

On two under par overall the 19-year-old England squad member had a long wait to see if he was among the three players at the course to earn a spot at Hoylake, where Ballesteros is due to make his first appearance since 2001.

"My dad's a golf fanatic and Seve was his favourite golfer," explained Benson. "I've met him a few times, the first when I was about three years old, and it would be a dream come true if I could play next week."

The hopes of Hartlepool's Graeme Storm, fourth in the European Open on Sunday, now depend on how he does at the Scottish Open, however.

Joint leader after an opening 68 at West Lancashire Storm slumped to a 79 after a simply bizarre finishing stretch.

The former British amateur champion, who would have qualified for Royal Liverpool if he had made an eight-foot putt to finish joint second at the K Club, had a double-bogey at the 13th, a quadruple bogey two holes later, a double bogey seven on the next, a birdie two at the 17th and then holed a 99-yard pitch to the last for an eagle two.

Two twos, but too little too late.

One exempt spot is on offer at Loch Lomond, but Storm faces far stiffer competition there, of course, and he has to finish in the top 10.