Simon Dyson handed Open berth

England's Simon Dyson will play in next week's Open Championship after American David Toms became the fourth player to withdraw this week.

Former US PGA champion Toms has a hip injury and pulled out after nine holes of the John Deere Classic today.
He went into the event with a problem, saying: "I've got a bad hip right now and just to walk around this golf course is quite a feat."
Toms follows Tiger Woods, Thomas Levet and Tim Clark in removing his name from The Open starting line-up.
Dyson was in position to qualify off a mini-money list two weeks ago, but was knocked out when Spanish duo Pablo Larrazabal and Sergio Garcia finished first and second in the BMW International Open in Germany.
Dane Thomas Bjorn, who was runner-up when The Open last visited Sandwich in 2003 and lost a three-shot lead with four to play then, is now first reserve.
He could well play. American Robert Garrigus also withdrew from the John Deere Classic today with back trouble after playing nine holes in five over. He was Clark's replacement.
Dyson heard the news after completing a four-under-par 68 in the first round of the Scottish Open.
"Get in," said the York golfer, who played at Sandwich in a British Amateur. "I'm really pleased."
Having had back trouble on and off for the last eight months he was planning a cortisone injection next Wednesday, although he added: "I never felt it today."
Bjorn, who in contrast to Dyson crashed to a six-over 78, said that even as first reserve he would now change his plans to be at Sandwich next week rather than back home in Denmark.
Not surprisingly, he has not been back there since he finished bogey, double bogey, bogey, par eight years ago to lose by one to shock winner Ben Curtis.