Andrew Coltart and Andrew Oldcorn, the two best-placed players in the European Ryder Cup table featuring in this week's Scottish PGA Championship, intend making home advantage count. Across the Atlantic in Ohio in the NEC Invitational, Welshman Phillip Price will be desperately protecting his 10th place in Europe's table.

With just these two events in America and Britain, which both start on Thursday, and then next week's BMW International in Munich left in the Ryder Cup race, both Scots can force their way into the automatic top 10 places.

However, even a top place at Gleneagles does not guarantee they can prise 10th place away from Price - such is the difference between the prize money on offer in the two events.

While Coltart, in 13th place in the table, and Oldcorn, 14th, scrap over a 263,034 points first prize, the winner of the NEC can expect 1,091,995 points, and even fifth place in Ohio this week earns 250,952 points, almost equivalent to winning at Gleneagles.