Watching The Open With The Ancient Twitter

Sally Jenkins is visiting dad Dan in Fort Worth and watching The Open Championship with the Ancient Twitterer. It's the first he's missed since Lyndon Johnson was president.

Dan is still Tweeting, but Sally shares some fun anecdotes from inside the Jenkins viewing compound. Shockingly, Tiger's taken a few blows.

With that sort of deep family history, you can understand how we all keened with laughter when ESPN tried to make Woods out to be a figure from antiquity because he is trying to win his second British at Hoylake, eight years apart, Tom Rinaldi intoning solemnly, “Time is the longest distance between two places,” quoting Tennessee Williams. The Woods worship reached its peak Friday morning, when ESPN reported that he had crossed a footbridge to the first tee taking the steps “ two at a time.” A short while later, the actual leader, Rory McIlroy, made the same trip to the first tee.