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Article: A GRAND SLAM FOR THE AGES BRITISH OPEN WIN A RECORD-BREAKER.(SPORTS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2000
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Five hundred years of legend and lore hardly prepared golf's hallowed home for Tiger Woods.
On the same linksland that Old Tom Morris nurtured and Jack Nicklaus conquered, along came a 24-year-old with a keen eye for history.
Woods not only became the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam, he completed it faster than any of the four greats who did it before him.
The final piece came Sunday, when Woods held the silver claret jug under the cool, gray skies of St. Andrews after another record-breaking performance to win the British Open.
''It's the ultimate,'' Woods said. ''This is the home of golf. This is where you always want ...