Intro:

American golfer Stacy Lewis discusses the emergence of Michelle Wie and defending her British Open title; two days before play gets underway at Royal Birkdale.

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English) Stacy Lewis, defending champion (on US Open winner Michelle Wie):

"Coming into the year I said Michelle's (Wie) is going, I said she was going to have a great year and I think now she's going to be a force every week: because she's learning how to take her game to different golf courses and she's contending - she's playing well at the US Open and then going to Arkansas the next week, which was a completely different golf course, and still playing well there. Now I think you expect her to be on the leaderboard, you expect her to be there on Sunday and she's expecting that of herself too."

SOUNDBITE (English) Stacy Lewis, defending champion (on her form coming into the Open):

"Winning three times in the last two months I guess it is, I mean this is the time of the year when you want to play the best for us. This is when all our majors are, this is the busiest time of the year. So coming in here I definitely like where my game's at. You've got to adjust things over here and play a little bit different shots than you're used to, but other than that the game is in good shape."