Woosnam right on cue after Price calls in sick

Ian Woosnam will compete in his 17th World Cup today after answering an emergency call to play for Wales at Kiawah Island.

Phillip Price was scheduled to partner Bradley Dredge in the two-man, 24-team event in South Carolina but pulled out after the Seve Trophy last weekend suffering from flu.

Woosnam was on holiday in Barbados when he received the call and caught a flight to Florida on Tuesday. But he missed his connecting flight to Charleston and instead had to drive for three-and-a-half hours to Kiawah, scene of the 1991 Ryder Cup.

That did his troublesome back few favours but Woosnam's experience of the contest will prove invaluable.

The 45-year-old, who made his World Cup debut in 1980, has twice won the individual title and won the team title, with David Llewellyn, in 1987.