Turnberry gets 2006 Senior British
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The 2006 Senior British Open will be played at
the Ailsa Course at the Westin Turnberry Resort, it was
announced on Monday.
The event is scheduled for July 27-30, 2006.
The Senior British Open, one of five major championships on the
Champions Tour, will return to Turnberry for the sixth time. The
last time the venue hosted this event was 2003, when it was won
by Tom Watson.
Watson will be defending this title as he won a playoff against
Ireland's Des Smyth. Watson's win the year before at Turnberry
was also in an extra session as he defeated Carl Mason.
Watson also triumphed at Turnberry in one of the most famous
British Opens. He outlasted Jack Nicklaus in the "Duel in the
Sun" in 1977, which was one of his five British Open titles.
Also expected to be in the field will be Greg Norman, who
finished in third place in 2005. Norman won his first of two
claret jugs at Turnberry in 1986. |
One Slip, And Tiger Has You
By George White
The Golf Channel
October 11, 2005
His game has changed, there is no question about
it. So has the glitz factor – he doesn’t win by just bombing the
daylights out of the field anymore.
But the results are just like the Woods of old
– time after time after time, just like a monotonous alarm clock
that keeps pestering you when you try to sleep, he is the only
one left standing when it comes time to pass out the hardware.
Tiger Woods improved to 8-1 in playoffs
following his win at Harding Park. He doesn’t just obliterate
fields like he used to, a la 1999-2001. Tiger Woods has learned
something much more important – how to win when you don’t play
at your maximum. For the sixth time this year, he won on Sunday.
And for the fourth time this year, he may not have been the best
player on the course.
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