Royal Liverpool (AKA Hoylake) to Host 2014 Open
by Ryan Ballengee on Feb 16, 2010 12:27 PM EST
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PrintJust when you thought the R&A was only going to make you delve into the world of in-course out of bounds markers only once, they bring it back. Royal Liverpool - called Hoylake by almost everyone on the other side of the Pond - will host the 2014 Open Championship.
Tiger Woods won there in 2006 on a very dry week in which he barely had to take a wood out of the bag. It was his major win following the death of his father Earl.
As the AP reports, some 230,000 people attended the Open that year and set a record in the process.
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Played the course that year...
like all Opens, needs a 20, 30 mph wind blowing. Tiger has won his 3 opens in benine conditions…when the wind blows he usually has a bad round. If he has to get the driver out, he can be mortal.
And if he has to get his wood out,
he can be extremely mortal.
That would be fun to watch. I don’t think Tiger needs a driver in the bag to shoot under par on most Open courses. He was surgical at St Andrews, putting his ball where the bunkers weren’t all week, and he only hit driver once at Hoylake.
You’re right that he has played “real” Open weather poorly, especially in the “Carnastie” year, losing a ball on the first hole. I think he still has lessons to learn in dealing with that weather – keeping the ball along the ground and in play instead of trying to out-wrestle mother nature in the air.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
it's funny though
the open is a crapshoot, when the weather dominates. It seems tee times and weather patterns dictate who wins. The open becomes a luck of the draw thing. If you tee off in the morning before the storm blows, you score, or the scoring avg. may well be 5 strokes better than the afternoon starters, or vice versa. Luck seems to play a huge factor at the Open Championship.
"The game is swell when it's played well."
by Fairways and Grins on Feb 19, 2010 10:12 AM EST reply actions
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