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Article: * not needed for this British Open
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 16, 2008
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SOUTHPORT, England -- The claret jug deserves an asterisk.
How else to describe a British Open in which the winner did not
have to beat the best player around? Your name is engraved on the
oldest trophy in golf, but did you really earn it? Was it a true
test?
We're talking, of course, about the '76 British Open at St.
Andrews.
That would be 1876.
Davie Strath was in the lead and on the 17th hole when he hit his
third shot while the group ahead was still on the green. The ball
hit one of the players and stopped near the hole, instead of
possibly running over the back of the green and onto the road. He
two-putted for 5, took a double bogey on the 18th and finished two
rounds at 176 to tie with ...