Hope you’ve had a good week. This is the 24th Golf Traders Newsletter, a British Open Special, enjoy the read…..
Golf News: British Open Week
The Wait is almost over, the British open starts on Thursday night (Australian time). Below is a full list of the Australians playing:
Geoff Ogilvy will be looking for his 2nd major this week
The Other Aussies are:
Robert Allenby ~ Aaron Baddeley ~ Greg Chalmers ~ Nicholas Cullen Marcus Fraser ~ Ashley Hall ~ Brendan Jones ~ Brad Kennedy ~ Marc Leishman ~ Geoff Ogilvy ~ Adam Scott ~ John Senden & Aaron Townsend.
A Typlical British Open lie
The History of Australians at The British Open
Historically, the Australian perform well in the British Open. Here is a list of past Australian winners, including Peter Thompson who has won the Open 5 times:
1993 - Greg Norman (Royal St. Georges) 1991 - Ian Baker-Finch (Royal Birkdale) 1986 - Greg Norman (Tunberry) 1965 - Peter Thomson (Royal Birkdale) 1960 - Kel Nagle (St. Andrews) 1958 - Peter Thomson (Royal Lytham and St. Annes) 1956 - Peter Thomson (Royal Liverpool) 1955 - Peter Thomson (St. Andrews) 1954 - Peter Thomson (Royal Birkdale)
Number 15 for Tiger? He says he’s looking forward to the week
Three-time Open Champion, Tiger Woods returns to England’s North West this week, the scene of his last Open Championship victory in 2006 at Hoylake. Speaking on his blog on his official website, Tiger spoke of his love for links golf, and labelled The Open as his favourite Major. “You can have so many different weather conditions. You just don’t know. That’s one of the unique things about the British Open and why it’s my favourite Major championship. It’s the only tournament besides the sand-belt courses in Australia that we can actually use the ground as a friend and bounce the ball into the greens,” said Woods. Woods, who recently claimed his 74th career victory at The A&T National, will be making his 3rd appearance at Royal Lytham and St Annes, and has fond memories after finishing as low amateur in 1996, and a top 25 finish in 2001. “I like the golf course, but I know they have made some changes since we played there in ‘01. I think they lengthened a few holes, so it will play different. Plus in ‘01, it was pretty dry and firm. They’ve had a very wet summer, as we saw at Wimbledon, and the golf course is pretty soft,” he said. Weather plays such a huge role in the tournament. It will be interesting to see how the course is set up. It’s different, because we’re not really on the water — we’re slightly inland. That train track that runs right along the golf course gets a lot of use that week.” Woods will be eager to perform well this week after missing last year’s Championship at Royal St George’s through injury. Woods has not recorded a top 10 finish at The Open since his last victory at Hoylake in 2006, and will return to England’s North West hungry for a fourth Open triumph.
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