Category: British Open Championship
Its proper name is the Open Championship, but on my side of the pond, its known as the British Open. The first Open Championship was held in 1860, with Willie Park winning over Tom Morris. As far as the Golf Blogger is concerned, this is the most interesting of Golf's four majors because the courses are generally so different from what we see on the PGA Tour.
Check back with this section for links to articles and updates on the British Open Championship
Jacklin To Come Out of Retirement
First Nancy Lopez ... now Tony Jacklin. This coming-out-of-retirement thing seems to be catching on.
Tony Jacklin, one of the best and most popular of the British golfers of the 1960s and 1970s, will play the British Open this year at age 62.
Jacklin won the 1969 Open Championship, becoming the first British player to do so in 18 years. He won the US Open in 1970—the first and only by a British player since 1920. He also won eight events on the then-fledgling European Tour, as well as events in Europe, South America, Africa and Australia.
Jacklin’s biggest claim to fame, however, was as a playing member of a series of losing European Ryder Cup teams, and the Captain of the 1985 European team, which racked up the first Euro victory in 28 years.
Jacklin was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002.
Tiger Would Miss Open For Child’s Birth
Tiger Woods says that he would miss the Open Championship to attend the birth of his child.
There are 156 players out there hoping for just such an event.
R&A To Permit Women In Clubhouse
After 153 years, the clubhouse for the Royal and Ancient will allow women to cross the threshold during this year’s women’s Open
Mighty generous of them, don’t you think.
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What’s a Weetabix?
This weeks’ British Women’s Open is sponsored by Weetabix.
What’s a Weetabix? It’s a cracker-like breakfast cereal that was first produced in 1936 by Weetabix, Ltd. It’s now owned by Nabisco.
Weetabix outsells corn flakes in Britain, and is publicly enjoyed by various members of the royal family.
You eat Weetabix like regular cereal—with hot or cold milk. The biscuits reportedly are extremely absorbent and turn soggy quickly. After a while, they apparently have the consistency of a bowl of oatmeal.
Hating The British Open
Now that its over, Detroit Free Press columnist Carlos Monarrez says that he “hates" the British Open.
This is golf. Or at least it’s supposed to be golf. Instead, we have to watch the best golfers in the world strike balls that land and roll another 50 yards on courses so rock-hard and dried-out they make I-94 look soft and supple. And I’m getting tired of it.
I’m tired of seeing so many pot bunkers in play it makes the course look like the face of an acne-riddled teenager.
I’m tired of the Brits calling it “the Open championship,” as if it were the only golf tournament with the name Open.
Carlos is in a really bad mood.
And I don’t agree with him. I think that the British—with its course conditions—has a great place in the Majors cycle. There’s Augusta with its perfectly manicured look, the US Open with the USGA’s tricked up conditions, the British with its back to nature look and the PGA that seems to me often is the most even handed of the bunch.
