Cheyenne Woods admits it has been hard to watch her superstar uncle toil on the global golfing stage – but the niece of Tiger is eager for an upturn in family fortunes on Scottish soil this week.

The toiling Tiger missed the cut in last week’s Open Championship at St Andrews as his slide down the world order continued.

Cheyenne will now take centre stage at Dundonald Links in Ayrshire when she lines up in the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open.

And the 24-year-old said: “It is difficult to see him struggle because I grew up watching him at the top of his game every single weekend. When you watched highlights of Tiger Woods it is amazing to see what he was able to do and also the energy brought to the course was different to anyone else. I miss that and I’m sure other people do also.”

Woods joined the pro ranks in 2012 after graduating from university and earned her maiden victory on the Ladies European Tour in the RACV Masters in Australia at the end of 2014.

The Arizona-based ace has a limited knowledge of the links game and her only previous competitive rounds on Scottish soil were at Kingsbarns during 36-hole qualifying for the 2013 Women’s British Open at St Andrews.

Woods earned her place on the main LPGA Tour in the US for the 2015 season and she is eager to continue to make a name for herself instead of being talked about as Tiger’s niece.

She added: “As I turned professional, I expected to be asked about him a lot because I was new to the scene. That might have been all people knew about me. But as I’ve been out here it’s been nice to have people starting to see me as an individual rather than the link to Tiger.

"I want people to move on because I feel me constantly being referred to as Tiger’s niece is old news. It is always going to be there, though, and I’m never going to get mad or frustrated about it.”

Woods forms part of a star-studded cast at Dundonald for a £360,000 championship which also includes world No.2 Lydia Ko, English teenager Charley Hull, Norway’s world No.7 Suzann Petterson, former Women’s British Open winner Catriona Matthew and defending champ Trish Johnson.

Glasgow’s Kylie Walker, a two-time Tour winner, and Lanark’s Pamela Pretswell are among the home hopefuls.