Oldies Day.... Tom Watson leads in the clubhouse with a -5, Mark O'Meara a couple of strokes back at -3. Tiger still on the course but he is even. Kenny Perry +2 Young Gun Rory McIlroy ...not on the course yet.
That's not a Open Championship Laddie!!! No wind and sunny? Where's the bloody bitch from the north with the sideways rain?
Wow...what a turnaround (not in a good way) for Ben Curtis. 65 yesterday and 80 today...high round of the day so far.
I'll retract my post above. He has lost four strokes since I posted it.... he's even hitting provisionals. When you're four strokes behind that rummy John Daly you ARE done.
Tiger at +6, leaders at +5 ...where is the cut line. At the USOpen it's 10 shots. If so then Tiger won't make the cut. He's done. On the other hand Tom Watson seems to have stolen Greg Normans vitamin stash!
He's a Native son of Nebraska Doc. Moved to Florida when he was 10. Learned how golf in the Sandhills before moving to the Mosquitoe Swamps.
Open Champion 1989. Player information Started to take golf seriously when his family moved from snowy Nebraska to Florida where he would play as many as four rounds in a day during the summer months. He was the winner of the first Open Championship decided under the four-hole play-off format after 36-hole and 18-hole play-offs were abandoned. His victory came at Royal Troon in 1989 when he defeated Australians Wayne Grady and Greg Norman with a recovery from the right rough to six feet for a birdie on the final hole. Victories in Australia, Argentina and Korea are included in a world-wide tally of 23 wins.
It's a shame that Watson couldn't pull it off. That shot into the 18th was almost great, but instead a couple of feet long and a double boggie and a playoff. After that he was just done. Congrats to Stewart Cink though he played great and is a deserving Champion.
I agree with you Terry, it was a shame he lost. But what a ride he gave us this week. It was good to see Cink win a major. He's been close before. PJ in Jersey
Yeah...ditto here. Really bummed for Watson, but Stewart Cink is a great guy and I'm very happy that he now has a major.
The awful part was knowing that if he didn't get that putt from the rough very close that he was done. The putt to win was a foregone conclusion. You KNEW that he was going to miss it and the window of opportunity had closed in his face. It seems that the Open more than the other majors gives us winners who come from the list of longest of shots or guys we never heard of before. Everyone remembers Jean Van de Velde crashing an burning on 18 in 1999 but how many remember who won? Since his victory in '99 the unforgetable Paul Lawrie has never finished higher than 42nd in the Open. What a great weekend for the golf fan this past weekend was.
So what does Cink do with the Claret Jug??? Of course he pours in some Guinness!!! Got this photo off his Twitter. I didn't know they actually let him take the Jug home with him like it was the Stanley Cup. I figured they would let him hold it for the photos but that was it!