2010 British Open: How Open Championship Suspense Restored Golf’s Fervor

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Published: July 14, 2010

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The fusion of the British Open returning to golf's Graceland and the complete inability to predict this year's champion have generated an electrifying anticipation throughout the golf world.

Why?

We have all become skeptics.

Will Tiger Woods finally win? If he does capture his 15th major, how long until he beats Jack Nickalus' record of 18 major championships?

Can Phil Mickelson win his first, elusive Open Championship?

How will the schizophrenic weather conditions affect the players?

With the overwhelming success of Europeans this year on the PGA Tour, is a European destined to win at St. Andrews?

Will the prolific history of the Old Course at St. Andrews haunt the leader come Sunday at the Open Championship?

There has never been such an array of doubt, wonder, and fascination on the eve of a major championship.

Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods remains one of the crucial reasons for this remarkable excitement.

Returning to St. Andrews means returning home for Tiger. Of Woods' three Open Championship victories, two have come at St. Andrews, one in 2000 and the other in 2005.

For a player of Woods' stature and ceaseless commitment to excellence in the game of golf, competing on the first ever 18-hole track, which is embedded with 600 years of history, must be the ultimate thrill.

Woods' two fourth-place finishes at the Masters and US Open this season only add to his insatiable hunger for victory. St. Andrews may be the course where Tiger's will earns him his biggest win yet.

Phil Mickelson


For Phil Mickelson, winning the British Open would simply be a historic feat.

Not only has he never won the British Open, but to win where golf was born would silence cynics, galvanize fans, and be the purest form of personal success for Lefty. 

But, let's face it: What's re...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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