Her uncle may have been out of the golfing spotlight for months now but Cheyenne Woods reckons she is finally moving out of Tiger’s shadow and making a name for herself.

Woods, the 25-year-old niece of the 14-time Major winner, tees-up in the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open at Dundonald this week and is relishing the prospect of another links test.

Woods, whose uncle Tiger remains out of action following further surgery on his back, joined the Ladies European Tour in 2013 and claimed her first win on the circuit the following season.

Having finished sixth on the LPGA Tour in Portland recently, Woods is coming into the Scottish event in good form and she is hoping to continue her progression and prove that there is more to her than just a famous surname.

She said: “When I first came out on the tour, the focus was huge and the questions about Tiger were inevitable. But the longer I’m out here, the better it gets. There are only so many questions you can ask me about him, after all. I think people are now seeing me for myself as a golfer, rather than being tied to Tiger. He’s always going to be a huge figure in golf and it will always be there but I think the whole thing is kind of dying down.”

Woods’s compatriot, Paige Spiranac makes only her second Ladies European Tour appearance this week following a tough introduction to life at the top table late last year.

The 23-year-old rookie’s burgeoning social media profile earned her an invitation to the Dubai Ladies Masters but it was a controversial choice with many questioning whether there was golfing substance behind the selfies.

Spiranac missed the cut there with a 77 and a 79 and was left in tears after online trolls went into overdrive.

She said: “People seemed to like it when I played bad than when I actually played well. Dubai was an amazing experience but everything, the media and the criticism, just got into my head. I was like ‘everyone hates me, everyone wants me to fail’.”