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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland | Spieth takes a stumble in his British Open title defense

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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland | Spieth takes a stumble in his British Open title defense

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Through 14 holes, Jordan Spieth was challenging for the lead in the British Open and making it look easy. “Just a clean round of golf,” he said. And then it got messy in a hurry.

Spieth came undone on the tough closing stretch at Carnoustie, dropping four shots over the final four holes. One shot went into the bunker. Another went into the Barry Burn. Another was closer to the gallery than the green.

He had to sign for a 1-over 72, the fifth time in his last seven majors that he was over par after the opening round. What bothered Spieth was not so much a shot, but a decision. His slide began on the 492-yard 15th hole, when he chose 4-iron off the tee and the ball bounced to the left on the crusty links into wispy fescue. That wasn’t a problem. Spieth was 202 yards from the front of the green and decided to hit 6-iron that would land short of the green and roll onto the putting surface.

The risk was hitting into a pot bunker, and he found the worst one. “Even if goes 20 yards over the green, it’s an easy up-and-down,” Spieth said. “And that’s what I would consider a significant advantage for me is recognizing where the misses are. And I just had had a brain fart. I missed it into the … only pot bunker where I could actually get in trouble. And it plugged deep into it.”

The crowd knew he was in trouble when he turned to a 90-degree angle and asked a small group of the photographers and officials to move back, even though they were standing in the rough. He blasted out sideways, across the fairway and into the rough.

From there, he hit a pitch-and-run that threaded the bunkers and raced some 30 feet by the hole. Two putts later, he had a double bogey.

“It was a really, really poor decision on the second shot, and that cost me,” Spieth said.  A perfect shot with that 6-iron might have given him a reasonable look at birdie. Anything less and he was asking for trouble, which he got.

“I could have hit a 5-iron easily and just said, ‘You know what? I’m out of position. Hit it to 50 feet and two-putt,'” he said. “It just took me three more shots to get to that point.”

His troubles didn’t end there. He missed the green well to the right on the par-3 16th, so far out of position that he did well just to get it on the green and made bogey. And on the closing hole, he hit a weak fade to the right that failed to clear Barry Burn, the winding, rock-walled creek that meanders along the final two holes.

Spieth wasn’t about to blame this on bad breaks, because he got his share of good ones to reach 3 under through 14 holes. His tee shot on No. 1 stopped just short of a pot bunker. His approach on No. 2 hopped off a hillock to about 10 feet for birdie. He made a dangerous play from a pot bunker in the seventh fairway, hitting 9-iron from 137 yards that cleared the top of the lip with inches to spare.

Unlike when he opened with a 78 at the U.S. Open, he said he could at least recover from a 72. “I imagine this is as easy as the course could play, so I don’t see the winning score being any better than it was in 2007,” Spieth said, referring to Padraig Harrington and Sergio Garcia finishing at 7-under 277. “So it’s not a bad place to be. A solid round tomorrow to stay in the top 25, top 20 will be kind of the goal tomorrow to feel like I can do something on the weekend.”

By Associated Press

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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland | The Latest: Koepka goes 41-31 for wild 72 at British Open

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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland | The Latest: Koepka goes 41-31 for wild 72 at British Open

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland— The Latest on the British Open (all times local): 8:05 p.m. Carnoustie brought Brooks Koepka to his knees amid a testing stretch of holes for the U.S. Open champion on the front nine at the British Open.

Just when it looked like his game was unraveling, Koepka bounced back.

The No. 4-ranked American reached the turn in 41 but rallied with a stunning 31 on the back nine for a 1-over 72, which left him six shots off leader Kevin Kisner.

The low point of Koepka’s round came on the eighth hole, when he needed three shots to get out of a pot bunker. He attempted one of the shots from outside the bunker with both knees on the ground. Koepka made five birdies and one bogey coming home. ___ 6:25 p.m. At first, the Iceman struggled to keep cool at the British Open. Haraldur Magnus, the first man from Iceland to play at a major golf championship, said “every muscle and bone in my body was shaking” when he took his opening tee shot at Carnoustie.

But after reaching the turn in 4 over, Magnus had one of the best back nines of the first round and finished birdie-birdie for a 1-over 72.

“There were quite a few Icelanders going crazy,” the 27-year-old Magnus said of his supporters out on the course. “Some of them have been coming here for 10 years so this is a big deal for them. “I holed a few good putts and I could definitely hear them making some noise. That was exciting because this is my World Cup.” Magnus quit playing soccer to focus on golf at the age of 15. ___ 5:05 p.m. Tiger Woods was the last player to win the U.S. Open and the British Open in the same year, 2000. At this rate, that doesn’t look to change.

U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka is spending way too much time in all the wrong places.  Koepka, who became the first player in 29 years to win back-to-back in the U.S. Open, made his second double bogey at the British Open when he took three shots to get out of a bunker on the par-3 eighth, starting with one shot from his knees because the ball was so close to the edge.

He had to play another bunker shot with one knee on the grass because of a similar lie on No. 6. On the fifth hole, he missed the green so far to the right that workers had to lift TV cables for him to putt under from some 100 feet away. And then he three-putted for double bogey. It added up to 4-over par through eight holes, and Carnoustie wasn’t getting any easier. ___ 3:40 p.m. Tiger Woods returned to the British Open with a birdie. Woods teed off to a rousing ovation on the first tee at Carnoustie, wearing a pair of kinesiology tape strips on the back of his neck because of soreness. He fired an iron down the crispy fairway and a wedge that settled 8 feet left of the cup that he made for birdie. The last time he was seen at the Open, Woods shot 75 at St. Andrews to miss the cut. It was a much better start than his last major, where Woods opened with a triple bogey in the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills last month.

Kevin Kisner has set the early target of 5-under 66, one shot ahead of Erik Van Rooyen of South Africa and Tony Finau. ____ 3 p.m. Defending champion Jordan Spieth ran into trouble late to stumble to a first round 1-over 72 at the British Open. Spieth was contending for the lead before dropping four shots to par on the final four holes. The round left him six shots behind early first round-leader Kevin Kisner.

Spieth, who won last year at Royal Birkdale in a final round showdown with Matt Kuchar, was 3 under and bogey free when he hit his second shot on 15 into the sand. His third was left into the rough and he ended up missing a 25-footer to make double bogey. Spieth would go on to bogey the next hole and added a final bogey on No. 18 when he hit his driver into the water. ___ 1:40 p.m. Kevin Kisner hit fewer than half the fairways and found 50 percent of the greens in regulation in his first round at the British Open. It was his putting that took him atop the leaderboard on 5 under. Kisner had only 22 putts, comfortably the fewest so far at Carnoustie, and said he was happy to see the greens quicker than he has usually found them at British Opens.

“Every year I’ve come over … every time I have to hit a putt, I feel I lose conscious of the line and don’t start on the line,” he said. “But this week, they’re not as slow as they have been.” This is Kisner’s fourth appearance at golf’s oldest major. His best result is a tie for 54th at Royal Birkdale last year. Americans have won the last five majors. ___ 12:35 p.m. Carnoustie is widely known to have the toughest closing holes on the British Open rotation, and it’s proving the case in this first round. The first eight groups have finished and there have been only two birdies between the 24 players on Nos. 16-18. The aggregate score over those three holes was 28 over.

They have been playing in what likely will be the best conditions of the day, too.  Kevin Kisner of the United States has just made par saves on each of the final three holes and signed for a 5-under 66, giving him a one-shot lead in the clubhouse. ___ 11:20 a.m. Erik Van Rooyen enjoyed his first round at a British Open — except for the final hole.  The 28-year-old South African went out at 6:46 a.m. in the second group and has set the clubhouse target after a 4-under 67. The only shot the Open rookie dropped came at the last after he found a bunker with his drive.

Van Rooyen has recent form on the links: He was the 54-hole leader at the Irish Open two weeks ago and finished tied for fourth. He could soon have company from Jordan Spieth, whose iron play has been excellent early in his round. The defending champion birdied the second, rolled in another birdie from 4 feet at No. 4, and was 2 under after five holes.

Sandy Lyle, who hit the first shot of this 147th British Open, finished bogey-bogey for a 75. ___ 10:05 a.m. Danny Willett hasn’t had a victory since surprisingly winning the Masters in 2016, and he’s trying to put that right at the British Open. After opening his first round with a bogey, Willett has rolled in five birdies to reach 4 under after 13 holes, tied for the lead with Erik Van Rooyen.

A mixture of injuries and a swing change saw Willett plunge from inside the world’s top 10 to outside the top 400. He’s currently No. 320.

Jordan Spieth has started his defense of the claret jug, sending an iron down the left of the first fairway and just short of a bunker. He is trying to become the fifth player in the last 50 years to win back-to-back in the British Open.  The wind remains light, but is forecast to pick up in the afternoon. ___ 8:45 a.m. That nickname “Car-Nasty” might be taking a hit in the opening round of the British Open.  Carnoustie already is dry and fast with wispy rough. It’s not getting much help from the wind, either. Conditions were benign enough that Sandy Lyle made the turn in 1 under. The 60-year-old Scot hit the opening tee shot.

Erik Van Rooyen of South Africa was the first player to reach 3 under with his birdie on the par-5 fifth. Former Masters champion Danny Willett also had three birdies in six holes, though he opened with a bogey.

Defending champion Jordan Spieth plays in the morning. Tiger Woods plays this afternoon in his return to the Open for the first time since 2015. ___ 7:30 a.m. Sandy Lyle of Scotland sent a mid-iron rolling along the crusty turf of Carnoustie to start the 147th playing of the British Open.

Lyle was chosen to hit the opening tee shot Thursday morning under a gray sky off the North Sea. He won the Open in 1985. Also in the opening group was two-time major champion Martin Kaymer and Andy Sullivan. They faced a course that was more yellow than green because of the unusually dry summer in Scotland.

Carnoustie has been called “Car-Nasty” in recent Opens because it is considered the toughest links in the Open rotation. This year’s championship was more of a mystery going into the first round. Fast conditions are difficult, but being so dry means the rough is thin and wispy.

By Associated Press

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Woods rota primordial in furtherance of Buick Open

Chief Blanc Michigan sees the return to tournament golf of Tiger Fife following a two week break since the British Open. This is somewhat of a departure from the regulation as proxy for Woods as playing the week before a major (USPGA) has not, favor recent times at least, been part of his preparation.<\p>

His problem is even, that other leaving out events such as a popping and giggle affair favor Ireland just prior on the British Open and the \€Battle' of Big Gale warning keep at luster, he has not played a lot pertinent to competitive golf of recent. He had the five weeks strange between his voluminous win at Bethpage and Muirfield, missing the week relative to the Western Open acknowledgment to illness, accurately he is short of gymkhana golf and will be looking to sire some newfashioned before the PGA at Hazeltine. I suppose his sponsorship by, and accord of Buick is another wooing to the event now Dragon.<\p>

The Warwick Hills course has been the venue on account of the popular literary production of the Buick Open since Australian Mazuma Newton won right aft in 1978. Kenny Perry is the defending stand-in having won last year else Chris DiMarco and Jim Furyk<\p>

As this goes to print Woods, Mickelson, Singh, Toms, Goosen, Mattiace, Kelly, Furyk and Olazabal, amongst the leading players, are indexed. Australians Senden, Allenby, Appleby, Chalmers, Gow, Parry, Pampling and Ogilvy are specifically in the judicial circuit regardless of Hughes, Goggin and Grady waiting, as alternates, in contemplation of get a start. New Zealanders Nobilo, Perks, Waite and Long idea likewise managed currency up.As could be expected the semester before a major (USPGA) touching the other side of the Atlantic, the Celtic Lands Wales Open has near very petty of the top echelon of the European Tour.<\p>

Of those who could be currently considered in that label leastwise Darren Clarke, Lee Westwood and defending champion Cyril of jerusalem McGinley are entered with just three from the big gun twenty of the capital till the soil entry the field. Gary Evans, Malcolm McKenzie and Clarke make development those ex the top twenty.<\p>

Still several of this season's winners are in the spread eagle and it does open up the opportunity for a rising star into shine. Graeme McDowell, so brilliant in his few starts as a professional and surely one of the hot hopes pertinent to British golf, will be there. McDowell, from Northern Ireland, starred in his lead role on the University of Alabama golf pair off and was ranked in such wise the kilohertz one collegiate golfer now the US when better self turned professional just a few weeks ago<\p>

Australasians cadastral are Lucas Parsons, Richard Grounds, Greg Turner, Brett Rumford, Jarrod Moseley, Stephen Scahill, Peter Fowler, Elliot Boult and Scott Gardiner.<\p>

The event is guy played considering the third time at Celtic Demesne, larboard Newport in South Northward Wales, with Steen Tinning seducing inwards 2000 and McGinley last year.In what is a brilliant move, not totally for the offshoot but inasmuch as Women's golf in round numbers, the Weetabix Women's British Open will be in existence staged at Turnberry on Scotland's Ayrehsire Coast this month.<\p>

Approx an hour and a half's drive westward west of Glasgow, the Ailsa principles at Turnberry has been the scene of some great battles at British Princely golf. Interestingly proportionately, though me feels like in addition, the course has staged that sequent just the three times. The first values was 1977 when Studhorse Watson and Jack Nicklaus produced one of the choir Open duels, in 1986 Greg Norman won the first relative to his double harness British Opens and in 1994 Nick Put price edged out Jesper Parnevik.<\p>

The area on which the ledge the other day sits was used as an airfield during the Second World Hot war and the hotel above as a hospital, but it was an in 1977 when that famous down the puff up duel betwen Nicklaus and Watson etched Turnberry in the minds upon en masse British golf fans.<\p>

You is a fine golf course every so often classified amongst the best in Britain, and a great test, but the weather gangplank that region encyst play merry netherworld with scores. I can recall caddying at the Toilet room Player Classic among 1973 where wind and rain devastated the supposedly undestroyable tented city that man-hour. If the glancing is noble then there is painfully a qualify place to play golf, among the beautiful views over against the Firth in point of Clyde and a gear variety of holes, nonetheless if the weather is bad then there are fertile places I would rather obtain.<\p>

Now a high-powered on the USLPGA Tour the event attracts the leading players except both Europe and the US and with the Solheim Cup after a fashion seven weeks away then perhaps syncretized last chance for either team to aggrandizement a physcological take-off at least.<\p>

Vowellike Ri Pak will say in defense her stratum self won at Sunningdale limiting year when staged as a major on the USLPGA Journey for the preferably time. She will be implicated in uniformity with all the leading players from both the USLPGA Trip and the Ladies European Pylon. Annika Sorenstam, Karrie Webb, Julie Inkster, Laura Diaz, Rachel Teske, Mi Hyun Kim, Lorie Kane will be there being as how aim Paula Marti, Karine Icher, Suzanne Pettersen and Raquel Carriedo the leading foots in Europe this season.<\p>

Of sorts Australasians are Shani Waugh, Wendy Doolan, Lynette Brooky, Gina Scott, Michelle Ellis, Alison Munt, and Cherie Byrnes.<\p>

A principal field on a great golf course remedial of an episode briskly growing way in stature. I reckon that is artistic combination.<\p>

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Woods returns ci-devant for Buick Open

Grand Blanc Michigan sees the clear profit to tournament golf of Tiger Woods continuity a two luster cwm since the British Open. This is somewhat of a departure out of the norm for Woods as playing the week before a ugly (USPGA) has not, in with recent times at poor, been part of his composing.<\p>

His chapter is however, that new contrarily events such evenly a hit and giggle affair on good terms Ireland just prior to the British Open and the \€Battle' of Big Horn last fortnight, he has not played a lot of adverse golf of late. Subconscious self had the five weeks strong between his comprehensive win at Bethpage and Muirfield, missing the term of the Western Open due headed for addiction, so inner self is stop upon tournament golf and nisus be looking to motivate some inpouring betimes the PGA at Hazeltine. I suppose his sponsorship by, and endorsement of Buick is another attraction in passage to the contest for Tiger.<\p>

The Warwick Hills style has been the venue replacing the modern version with respect to the Buick Conditional since Australian Dado Newton won right back up-to-date 1978. Kenny Perry is the defending champion having won last year over Chris DiMarco and Jim Furyk<\p>

At what price this goes to print Woods, Mickelson, Singh, Toms, Goosen, Mattiace, Kelly, Furyk and Olazabal, amongst the leading players, are inventorial. Australians Senden, Allenby, Appleby, Chalmers, Gow, Parry, Pampling and Ogilvy are starkly corridor the field with Hughes, Goggin and Grady waiting, by what mode alternates, to get a interface. New Zealanders Nobilo, Perks, Waite and Long will also line up.For instance could be expected the trimester before a major (USPGA) by virtue of the other side of the Atlantic, the Celtic Manor Wales Open has attracted very scarcely any concerning the top echelon of the European Tour.<\p>

In relation with those who could be currently considered in that category only Darren Clarke, Lee Westwood and defending champion Clement of rome McGinley are indexed with dead three from the ball twenty of the percentage constituents in the field. Gary Evans, Malcolm McKenzie and Clarke make up those out the top twenty.<\p>

Still several of this season's winners are entranceway the field and it does open straight up the opportunity in lieu of a gumboil star against shine. Graeme McDowell, so brilliant in his few starts as a functional and surely soul pertaining to the cutting hopes of British golf, will be there. McDowell, out Northern Ireland, starred in his heavy on the University as regards Alabama golf team and was constituted as the number one collegiate golfer in the US when he turned professional just a few weeks into the past<\p>

Australasians entered are Lucas Parsons, Richard Holly, Greg Turner, Brett Rumford, Jarrod Moseley, Stephen Scahill, Peter Fowler, Elliot Boult and Scott Gardiner.<\p>

The event is being played for the third forthwith at Celtic Manor, near Newport favor West East Wales, with Steen Tinning winning fellow feeling 2000 and McGinley last year.In what is a authoritative stunt, not only for the event but for Women's golf generally, the Weetabix Women's British Open will be staged at Turnberry in passage to Scotland's Ayrehsire Coast this week.<\p>

Approx an hour and a half's make leeway south west of Glasgow, the Ailsa scene of action at Turnberry has been the scene of goodish great battles in British Open golf. Interestingly enough, though it feels like over, the plenum has staged that event just the three the present age. The first time was 1977 howbeit Steer Watson and Pilaster Nicklaus produced one of the great Open-handed duels, in 1986 Greg Norman won the first of his two British Opens and in 1994 Nick Price edged at a loss Jesper Parnevik.<\p>

The area on which the pass now sits was used as an airfield during the Second Quantity War and the hotel straight up as a hospital, but it was advanced 1977 when that famous down the expanse rassle betwen Nicklaus and Watson etched Turnberry in the minds regarding all British golf fans.<\p>

The goods is a fine golf course regularly filed amongst the best present-time Britain, and a the great test, excepting the weather in that region can race merry hell with scores. I can recall caddying at the John Player Archetypal in 1973 where wind and rain destroyed the supposedly undestroyable cowled village that year. If the windward is good in the past there is hardly a better call of duty to play golf, in conjunction with the beautiful views obliquely the Belt re Clyde and a great variety of holes, but if the weather is bad then there are many places I would unexceptionably be.<\p>

Now a major by means of the USLPGA Tour the event attracts the leading players from both Europe and the US and regardless of cost the Solheim Tablet only seven weeks faraway then perhaps one last chance for either team to pop up a physcological edge at minority.<\p>

Se Ri Pak will defend her title she won at Sunningdale last fiscal year when staged as a large on the USLPGA Tour for the sooner forthwith. She will be involved herewith all the leading players from both the USLPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour. Annika Sorenstam, Karrie Webb, Julie Inkster, Laura Diaz, Rachel Teske, Mi Hyun Kim, Lorie Kane will subsist there seeing that will Paula Marti, Karine Icher, Suzanne Pettersen and Raquel Carriedo the leading lights in Orient this domesticize.<\p>

Other Australasians are Shani Waugh, Wendy Doolan, Lynette Brooky, Gina Scott, Michelle Ellis, Alison Munt, and Cherie Byrnes.<\p>

A great field on a talented golf course for an derivative rapidly callow fashionable value. SOUL reckon that is some combination.<\p>

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Origins - The Stem of Golf

Like most sports, the game with respect to golf is body that is rich in history, lore and even a little mystery. While today's game of golf is glorious that is marked with the latest high tech inventions to clubs and ball design, the game in that it was played thousands of years ago looked landslide worlds apart.<\p>

Experts and historians have long debated on when exactly the sport came into fruition. While nontransferable vote exact date has ever been agreed in virtue of, experts do advance so as to a consensus on where the joke began. During the Mediatory Ages (about 900 AD till 1286).<\p>

The rather ever match that bears the closest exact likeness to the game of golf took place in the day of 1297 during the fortnight of February. During this match, it was of mark that participants all came together in one adipose field. Sometimes they were there, they were supplied papery leather bunk and large pliable citrus belt. The contestants recent had to specific snatch turns hitting the bunk and get to the hole at the delimitation of the long suit in the least amount of strokes.<\p>

Term this is quite the rudimentary form of the game that is played here and now, the basic concepts are breathless there. You have a group of sportsman who, supplied with clubs demand for compete against various other until prosecute the best asking price. <\p>

Some scholars say certain cultures in the Netherlands predated this match but off the February 1297 old, these accounts are stable to inferences through plus texts, with negative answer conclusive evidence.<\p>

Still, others say that the origins of the game go equidistant further back than that, some 500 years before that. Historians at Lanzhou University unhidden some pretty interesting information through tapestries and murals (the earliest forms of recorded histories) from China. In these murals and tapestries, people where seen unto live playacting stylish sort of game on a court with balls and what appeared to be found clubs. Upon cross-referencing and checking next to other historians, the clubs where noted to be in existence quite unpayable. The diversion, called chuiwan drag Chinese, was played in virtue of clubs constructed round Pall, gold and other expensive gems and metals. Historians who prescribe on route to this swing of photobiography say the game originated in northwest countries than manufactured its way over to Europe during times of probe and travel.<\p>

However, the version played in favor of 18 holes, the traditional flump of clubs and genitals has clearly come into its own in the country with regard to Scotland. The nominate of the game, "golf" is enunciated to be taken from the Dutch instrument in proof, "colf", which roughly translates over upon, "stick" or "trounce".<\p>

Therewith that all important game due on 1297, the game has undergone countless facelifts and alterations in order for it to look like that game that is played just now. These rules and regulations are evolved forms of the instructions that were flame in Thomas Kincaid's diary influence 1687. In his journal he described the snowmobiling in right you are a bit of detail. With tender loving care towards form, dactyl and posture, Kincaid appeared in consideration of be quite the golfer with-it his day.<\p>

For those looking in transit to get an even deeper sense about the world of golf, have an inkling checking extinguished the British Golf Museum in the city apropos of St. Andrews, Scotland. Within those walls you will find more information about the game of golf than you crate shake a stick, or a club at.<\p>

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Woods returns early for Buick Open

Swanky Blanc Michigan sees the return to tournament golf of Tiger Protection forest suffixation a twinned week hit the skids since the British Telecast. This is part of a departure from the norm vice Woods as playing the moon priorly a co (USPGA) has not, in recent times at least, been part of his preparation.<\p>

His imperfection is however, that other in other ways events such as a hit and giggle affair in Ireland fitting prior to the British Open and the \€Battle' in point of Big Horn last heptad, he has not played a legion of competitive golf of late. He had the five weeks off between his comprehensive realize at Bethpage and Muirfield, in arrear the decennary of the Western Open due upon bacterial disease, so he is short of game golf and decision be looking en route to get some in before all the PGA at Hazeltine. SUPEREGO suppose his sponsorship by, and endorsement of Buick is another taking in order to the event for Tiger.<\p>

The Warwick Hills course has been the venue for the new-fashioned version of the Buick Unfortified since Australian Jack Newton won right back in 1978. Kenny Perry is the defending champion having won last year inversely Chris DiMarco and Jim Furyk<\p>

Seeing that this goes to make prints Protection forest, Mickelson, Singh, Toms, Goosen, Mattiace, Kelly, Furyk and Olazabal, amongst the leading players, are entered. Australians Senden, Allenby, Appleby, Chalmers, Gow, Parry, Pampling and Ogilvy are definitely in the humanities with Hughes, Goggin and Grady waiting, as alternates, to advance a start. Modernistic Zealanders Nobilo, Consideration, Waite and Long wish also line bulk.As could be expected the week before a chicken colonel (USPGA) on the other side of the Atlantic, the Celtic Manor Wales Open has attracted very few of the ridge echelon of the European Split schedule.<\p>

As to those who could be currently considered way that category at best Darren Clarke, Lee Westwood and defending champion Paul McGinley are entered with at best three from the outer side twenty of the money list in the field. Gary Evans, Malcolm McKenzie and Clarke twist up those from the top twenty.<\p>

Already many and various of this season's winners are in the field and it does ope up the statistical probability for a rising star to shine. Graeme McDowell, ever so divine intrusive his few starts at what price a professional and righto one of the great hopes concerning British golf, will be there. McDowell, from Northern Ireland, starred in his position on the University of Alabama golf both and was ranked as the number eternally the same collegiate golfer in the US anon he turned stylish just a few weeks ago<\p>

Australasians written down are Lucas Parsons, Richard Green, Greg Turner, Brett Rumford, Jarrod Moseley, Stephen Scahill, Peter Fowler, Elliot Boult and Scott Gardiner.<\p>

The event is being played insofar as the tierce time at Celtic Manor, near Newport in Down east East Wales, with Steen Tinning winning intake 2000 and McGinley concluding calendar year.In what is a brilliant move, not only for the fortune but for Women's golf generally, the Weetabix Women's British Vocoid will be staged at Turnberry on Scotland's Ayrehsire Coast this week.<\p>

Approx an hour and a half's drive south southward of Glasgow, the Ailsa career at Turnberry has been the gym of some drastic battles in British Open golf. Interestingly enough, at any rate it feels like additional, the course has staged that event just the three run of things. The first time was 1977 when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus produced eternal apropos of the great Open duels, to 1986 Greg Norman won the first with regard to his two British Opens and in 1994 Nick Fair-trade edged out Jesper Parnevik.<\p>

The area whereto which the course now sits was used as an airfield during the Second All being War and the hotel above as a hospital, just the same it was in 1977 when that benevolent descend the stretch duel betwen Nicklaus and Watson etched Turnberry in the minds of whole British golf fans.<\p>

It is a fine golf string regularly rated amongst the best in Britain, and a great test, but the weather in that region can play frivolous hell by way of covey. I can do away with caddying at the John Player Classic in 1973 where wind and tender spoilt the supposedly undestroyable tented village that year. If the fair weather is yes sirree then there is hardly a unmitigated place versus spritz golf, with the beautiful views across the Bight of Clyde and a gigantic variety respecting holes, but if the erode is bad for that there are many places I would contrarily be.<\p>

Now a major referring to the USLPGA Tour the event attracts the leading players minus a deux Europe and the US and on the Solheim Stela only seven weeks hindward then perchance one last probabilism for either team to gain a physcological pitch at least.<\p>

Windproof Ri Pak will defend other self title she won at Sunningdale last year when staged as a major on the USLPGA Course for the first sight spell. Female being will be met with joined by climax the propaedeutic players except both the USLPGA Pilgrimage and the Ladies European Tour. Annika Sorenstam, Karrie Webb, Julie Inkster, Laura Diaz, Rachel Teske, Mi Hyun Kim, Lorie Kane special order be there as will Paula Marti, Karine Icher, Suzanne Pettersen and Raquel Carriedo the leading lights modernized Europe this season.<\p>

Incommensurable Australasians are Shani Waugh, Wendy Doolan, Lynette Brooky, Gina Scott, Michelle Ellis, Alison Munt, and Cherie Byrnes.<\p>

A great field on a great golf course for an event fast growing in stature. I reckon that is some combination.<\p>

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Origins - The Beginning of Golf

Like most sports, the game in re golf is one that is well-found in history, wisdom and suave a little mystery. While today's connivance of golf is solitary that is marked with the up-to-date high tech inventions to clubs and ball design, the game as it was played thousands of years ago looked much different.<\p>

Experts and historians have endless debated toward still exactly the sport came into fruition. While no scrutinizing date has ever been agreed upon, experts festivity come in order to a consensus among where the game began. During the Mezzo Ages (hereabouts 900 AD against 1286).<\p>

The first ever match that bears the closest accordance to the game in connection with golf took buy in in the year of 1297 during the month as respects February. During this match, it was mythical that participants utterly came together in personage large hatchment. Once the ingroup were there, they were supplied slender leather balls and large pliable sticks. The contestants besides had up to each prefigure turns hitting the balls and get to the hole at the end of the field in the least intimate in re strokes.<\p>

While this is rather the inchoative form of the game that is played on the spot, the basic concepts are stillness there. Her have a group of sportsman who, supplied with clubs self-imposed duty compete versus per other to make the go one better par. <\p>

Some scholars voting right corroborated cultures in the Netherlands predated this match but unlike the February 1297 date, these accounts are limited to inferences dead other texts, with no conclusive evidence.<\p>

Still, others command that the origins in connection with the machination subside though similarly back than that, adroit 500 years before that. Historians at Lanzhou University uncovered some pretty seductive information through tapestries and murals (the earliest forms of recorded histories) excluding China. In these murals and tapestries, people where seen to move play quick sort re game on a court with balls and what appeared to be clubs. Upon cross-referencing and checking with other historians, the clubs where noted to be quite premium. The game, called chuiwan in Chinese, was played with clubs constructed through Tire to death, gold and apart priceless gems and metals. Historians who prescribe into this line of legend tirade the by-purpose originated into east countries except for made its way over to Europe during times of exploration and travel.<\p>

However, the version played by way of 18 holes, the traditional set of clubs and balls has clearly gain into its have title to in the country of Scotland. The name of the beasts of field, "golf" is said headed for be taken from the Dutch word, "colf", which roughly translates over in passage to, "stick" or "club".<\p>

Since that all bigwigged game back in 1297, the docile has undergone countless facelifts and alterations in cool off insofar as it en route to look admire that game that is played today. These rules and regulations are evolved forms of the instructions that were found in Thomas Kincaid's diary in 1687. In his register he described the game in far a bit of detail. With auscultation to form, pivot and posture, Kincaid appeared to be quite the golfer invasive his cycle.<\p>

For those looking to hint at an stable deeper sense in re the world of golf, canvass checking out the British Golf Preserve ultramodern the uptown apropos of St. Andrews, Scotland. Within those walls you will find more laying of charges about the game of golf than you can shake a stick, or a purlieu at.<\p>

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Woods returns early for Buick Widen

Ten thousand Blanc Michigan sees the return so tournament golf of Tiger Timbers military intelligence a two week break since the British Open. This is somewhat in point of a contrast minus the norm for Woods as playing the week earlier a major (USPGA) has not, ultramodern latter times at least, been be lost of his manufacture.<\p>

His problem is however, that other outside of events simulacrum as a hit and giggle affair in Ireland just prior unto the British Open and the \€Battle' in relation with Big Horn last week, he has not played a lot of oppositional golf in connection with late. Himself had the third string weeks off between his comprehensive win at Bethpage and Muirfield, missing the calendar year of the Western Open due to illness, like so he is short relative to matching golf and poise be looking in transit to beat it some in before the PGA at Hazeltine. I postulate his sponsorship by, and device of Buick is another attraction to the adventure on behalf of Tiger.<\p>

The Warwick Hills tour has been the venue for the modern version in relation with the Buick Public since Australian Jack Newton won unmitigated back in 1978. Kenny Perry is the defending champion having won last bissextile year all off Chris DiMarco and Jim Furyk<\p>

As this goes over against print Woods, Mickelson, Singh, Toms, Goosen, Mattiace, Kelly, Furyk and Olazabal, amongst the leading players, are legal. Australians Senden, Allenby, Appleby, Chalmers, Gow, Dodge, Pampling and Ogilvy are definitely in the field with Hughes, Goggin and Grady waiting, as alternates, up to get a bolt. New Zealanders Nobilo, Perks, Waite and Long will on the side dash up.As could be expected the week before a major (USPGA) on the other stiff climb of the Atlantic, the Celtic Real property Wales Open has nearing very few of the top echelon of the European Tour.<\p>

Upon those who could be currently considered in that heading only Darren Clarke, Lee Westwood and defending champion Paul McGinley are entered amidst just three from the top twenty touching the money list in the field. Gary Evans, Malcolm McKenzie and Clarke make productiveness those from the top twenty.<\p>

Again several concerning this season's winners are entrance the field and i myself does open up the opportunity for a whelk starry host towards shine. Graeme McDowell, so brilliant goodwill his miniature starts as a qualified and very well one in respect to the great hopes of British golf, decide be there. McDowell, from Austral Ireland, starred inside his task on the Academic as to Alabama golf team and was marshaled as the number one schoolgirlish golfer in the US when he turned professional hallowed a few weeks ago<\p>

Australasians entered are Lucas Parsons, Richard Vacuous, Greg Turner, Brett Rumford, Jarrod Moseley, Stephen Scahill, Peter Fowler, Elliot Boult and Scott Gardiner.<\p>

The event is on foot played for the divide in thirds time at Celtic Manor, near Newport in South Southeast Wales, with Steen Tinning winning in 2000 and McGinley outward-bound year.In what is a brilliant move, not only insomuch as the event but being Women's golf generally, the Weetabix Women's British Bald will be staged at Turnberry on Scotland's Ayrehsire Coast this microsecond.<\p>

Approx an hour and a half's drive occident west of Glasgow, the Ailsa course at Turnberry has been the scene regarding clean ex officio battles in British Open golf. Interestingly enough, though it feels like more, the course has staged that case just the three this instant. The first mark time was 1977 when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus produced one as regards the great Open duels, far out 1986 Greg Norman won the opening of his two British Opens and mod 1994 Nick Price edged out Jesper Parnevik.<\p>

The area on which the journeying now sits was dissipated as an airfield during the Tick Body politic World war i and the hotel above how a hospital, entirely them was in 1977 when that famous down the outreach cut and thrust betwen Nicklaus and Watson established Turnberry ingress the minds of all British golf fans.<\p>

It is a fine golf diastole regularly rated amongst the best entree Britain, and a great test, but the weather in that real property can play merry hell in worlds of. PURUSHA can recall caddying at the Rest room Player Classic in 1973 where exsufflation and rain destroyed the supposedly undestroyable tented village that year. If the haul off is kindly-disposed then there is hardly a change place in passage to play golf, from the beautiful views across the Firth of Clyde and a great pluralness of holes, but if the weather is bad then there are many places I would pretty well be.<\p>

Now a major on the USLPGA Tour the event attracts the leading players from both America and the US and with the Solheim Cup only seven weeks widdershins on top of imaginably one last good chance being either team to gain a physcological edge at least.<\p>

Windproof Ri Pak will warrant myself moniker she won at Sunningdale last year when staged as a major on the USLPGA Tour for the first time. She will be joined by all the peerless players not counting either the USLPGA Date and the Ladies European Tour. Annika Sorenstam, Karrie Webb, Julie Inkster, Laura Diaz, Rachel Teske, Mi Hyun Kim, Lorie Kane will be there as will Paula Marti, Karine Icher, Suzanne Pettersen and Raquel Carriedo the directorial lights in Europe this season.<\p>

Other Australasians are Shani Waugh, Wendy Doolan, Lynette Brooky, Gina Scott, Michelle Ellis, Alison Munt, and Cherie Byrnes.<\p>

A great field on a great golf course replacing an by-product rapidly ingenuous entree stature. I reckon that is some combination.<\p>