When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Worthy champion, solid Sunday course preparation and a seemingly great week for Royal St. George's. Love to hear any and all thoughts, but particularly interested to hear about the fan experience from anyone who attended.
The R&A must have taken media dining up a notch Saturday, because the coverage was stellar. Or, maybe the wicked weather and the field separating itself a bit helped. Either way, enjoy...
Another strange day at Royal St. George's as the hole locations appeared to prevent anyone from going super low and the weather wasn't bad enough to make anyone go super high, so we have just a seven shot differential from the leaders to the bubble boys. And according to Steve Elling, who tries to make sense of the "biblical" weather forecast, four players are within three shots of the lead.
In pre-tournament stories some mentioned the lack of a driveable short four at Royal St. George's and who could blame them?You may recall back on June 3rd after Forbes released its annual listing of top athlete income at $75 million, I questioned the math based on reports from IMG that the agency income from Tiger Woods endorsement deals had fallen to just over $1 million.
Day one's late afternoon excitement means many of the leaders will be teeing off an hour that I can best describe as several before I awake, but I know you'll already have many shrewd observations by the time I log on.
I'd post the weather forecast, but we know how well that turned out Thursday.
**Tom Watson's 6th hole ace Friday morning:
The predictions of a vicious Royal St. George's didn't pan out due to light winds and surprisingly mellow greens, signaling that the R&A might have learned from last year's St. Andrews play-stoppage fiasco?Well not entirely, but we now know from the former Stanford teammate that Tiger has committed to an August 31 rescheduling of a postponed appearance in the Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge.
Before we get to read today's first round Open Championship stories on co-leaders Tom Lewis and Thomas Bjorn, you can read up on Lewias in an excellent story by James Corrigan that ran yesterday. I found it interesting that he's already signed with IMG, yet still an amateur. What a world!
They'll be starting at 1 a.m. PT, so I'll be joining this one in progress but recording it all. So if anything happens at 1:05...that's 4:05 ET, feel free to make a note of it here.Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning
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