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My Interview With Tom Watson: Grooves, The Road Hole, and - Yes - Turnberry
Tom Watson has had an amazing 2009. He nearly won the Open Championship at Turnberry. He almost had the Senior Players Championship in hand. Yet in spite of all of the attention, he ...
Face It, Golf Fan, You Don't Want The Underdog to Win
Millions of people were rooting for Tom Watson to become the oldest man to win a major championship at the Open at Turnberry. It would have been arguably the greatest underdog story in the histo...
Blame Modern Equipment for Tom Watson's Historic Run
Golf Digest's equipment editor Mike Stachura is usually a pretty astute guy. He teams with Michael Johnson to write the Bomb and Gouge blog over at that shop. While their long-standing fav...
The Decider: Temper, Temper! Tiger's & Yours on the Course
In this week's Decider, we're influenced by the myriad response to Tiger's curse-laden experience at Turnberry. Shane Bacon weighed in with an opinion that I fully endorse. I tepidly endor...
Stewart Cink Will Not Become the Modern Jack Fleck
Tom Watson walked up the 72nd fairway of Turnberry facing an up and down from just off of the green to win his sixth Open Championship at the age of 59. An hour before that, though, Stewart Cink...
With Nothing Left to Prove, Tom Watson Proved Everything
"Well, it would have been one hell of a story. Wouldn't it have it?" That was what Tom Watson first said to assembled media after the playoff at the 138th Open Championship in which he lost to S...
Tom Watson On Verge of Ninth Major Championship
Last year, Greg Norman became the oldest player to lead a major championship after 54 holes at 53 years of age. He held that record for just twelve months as Tom Watson now leads the Open Champi...
Tom Watson Could Always Do Play-By-Play On Course
Remember in each of the last few years that Tom Watson has done some color commentary on ESPN/ABC's weekend telecasts of the Open Championship? Well, as Devil Ball Golf explains, he was fully pr...
What to Look For on Saturday at the Open Championship
It's nearly 8pm in Scotland right now and they are close to the midway point of the Open Championship. With Tiger Woods not likely to be around on the weekend, a lot of fans are probably not goi...
Tiger Woods Will Miss Cut at Open Championship
For only the second time in his professional career, it appears that Tiger Woods will miss the cut in a major championship. Woods finished the first two rounds of the 138th Open Championship at ...
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