France is the place where all big trophies are heading this year and I have a good gut feeling that they might also take home the British open.
Garcia should and will be the man if they have to get it. Garcia is at is top of his game this year with many top ten finishes & a players championship title to his credit.
Garcia’s moral was at an all time low after his 18th hole meltdown at the carnoustie last year, where he put the title from his lap and handed it to Padraid Harrington on the 72nd hole. But the win at the players had done him a world of good and his confidence has blossomed.
No doubt he is an exceptional talent, he has the game to compete with the best and be the best but he just needs to win one big major that will nozzle hi carrier.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
French fireworks
Friday, July 11, 2008
Remembering 1998[and the wind]
Mark O’Meara defeated Brian watts,17-19 in a four hole playoff in the last British open played at royal Birkdale. Heavy wind during the third round contributed to a scoring average of 77.49 that Saturday, when no sub par rounds were shot –the first time that had happened at the major since the third round of the 1986 open at Turnberry. Of the 81 players to survived the cut, 23 shot in the 8o’s, including Phil Michelson, who shot an 85 that included a second nine of 45 and a finish of 6-5-6-7.Tiger woods who had 77 recalled hitting “3- and 4-irons from 160 yards”.
Results that year from Birkdale, which played at 7,018 yards, par 70.
TOP FINISHERS:
Mark o’mera:72-68-72-68:280
Brian watts: 68-69-73-70:280
Tiger woods: 65-73-77-70:281
Jim furyk: 70-70-72-70:282
Jasper pernevik: 68-72-72-70:282
MISSED THE CUT:
Colin Montgomery (73-74)
Padraid Harrington (73-76)
John Daly (73-78)
Daly needed a bogey at the par-4 18th hole on Friday to make the cut but took five swings to escape a fairway bunker and made a 10.
Source from golf digest
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
LATEST FROM THE OPEN
Drug testing at Open Championship delayed until 2009
Players competing at Royal Birkdale in July will not be subject to drug testing as originally planned due to a delay in implementing the testing program at various Open Championship international qualifying sites.
R&A announces changes to entry criteria for 2008 Open
The runners-up at the British Amateur and U.S. Amateur championships will have a little easier road to Royal Birkdale, thanks to a series of amendments to the entry criteria for the 2008 Open Championship announced recently by the R&A. The Championship Committee also also intends to lower to 60 the age limit exemption for past Open champions.
Due to a new age limit for the Open Championship, five-time winner Tom Watson has two more years of exemptions left.
