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British Open 2009, Watson hangs in there at Turnberry
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Tom Watosn shares the lead at British Open
The race for the Claret jug at the 138th British Open at Turnberry has never been more hair-raising, as 59-year-old, 5-time Open winner, Tom Watson, hangs in at the top of a shifting leaderboard. The sun is shining over the scraggly gorse and the narrow fairways on a legendary Scottish links course, and the winds are up. Jack Nicklaus said this morning, "The wind makes Turnberry," and if the breezes blow hard today, it may help Watson keep the lead he has maintained most of the last three days of the Open. Earlier in the week, Watson said he would love to take his chances in a howling gale.
Watson topped the leaderboard at the finish of play on Saturday and said, “Now you kind of perk up your ears and say, this old geezer might have a chance to win the tournament. I don't know what's going to happen, but I do know one thing, I feel good about what I did today. I feel good about my game plan."
Leading by two shots in early holes today, rising star Ross Fisher stumbled with a quadruple bogey to sink to 7th position, while Watson, Chris Wood and Lee Westwood now share the lead (Fisher's wife is about to have a baby, he has vowed to leave the Open if she goes into labor).
2-tim U.S. Open winner, South African Retief Goosen, and the Tasmanian, Mathew Goggin, who comes from eighteen top-10 finishes in the last five years, are hot on their heels.
Can the old master, Tom Watson, stay on his game plan? Watson has been able, so far, to do what the legendary Alisa links course demands, and that is to keep the ball within the fairways and out of the sucking rough and the impossible tall bunkers, and to putt his brains out. On Friday, he holded a 30-footer on the first hole, a 25-footer on nine and a 60-footers on both 16 and 18, followed by a crucial 40-footer on the 16th on Saturday, while just missing a 25-foot eagle putt on 17, tapping in for a birdie. Then he parred the 18th, finishing at 71, enough to lead the pack.
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Read about the first round of the the 2009 British Open.
Read about the British Open 2009 at Turnberry, part 1
Read about the British Open 2009 at Turnberry, part 2, the first Open
Read about the British Open 2009 at Turnberry, part 3, the resort
Read about the British Open 2009 at Turnberry, part 4, the academy
Founder/editor of BestGolfResortsofTheWorld.com, Karen Misuraca is a travel and golf writer from the California Wine Country. She follows the little white ball around the world and blogs golf travel at bestgolf.typepad.com/blog/
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