RealClearSports: Did Adam Scott Really Choke?

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — The word was everywhere, making a bad situation worse, as if what happened to Adam Scott the final day of the British Open, the final holes of the British Open, could be worse.

Scott not only lost the Open, blew the Open, came in second to Ernie Els, but was being branded a “choke,’’ and there’s nothing more demeaning in sports, nothing more damaging.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Ernie Els wins British Open as Adam Scott collapses

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England -- Adam Scott cried the day Greg Norman blew the Masters. It was 1996 and Scott was a teenager in Australia who idolized Norman.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Scott in control of British Open; Tiger, McDowell, Els lurk

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England -- The opportunity is in front of Adam Scott, because for the first time after three rounds of a major championship everyone else is behind him.

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RealClearSports: Tiger Shows Up Late While Others Talk

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. -- He showed up, if late. Took his bag, his caddy and his suspicions into the blast furnace they call summer in Georgia. Tiger Woods was on site, practicing his swing and, maybe the way things have been going, his counter attack.

Tiger talks Wednesday, his official media interview in this prelude to the 93rd PGA Championship, which starts Thursday at Atlanta Athletic Club. Don't expect revelations. The question is what we should expect from his golf.

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RealClearSports: A Masters to Be Remembered

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The tales are about the azaleas and the green jacket and the difficulty in purchasing tickets. But what makes the Masters the Masters is the golf.

It's wide open, and wild scoring. It's golf the way the NBA plays basketball, dramatic and entertaining, where the best — Charl Schwartzel's historic four closing birdies Sunday — and the worst — Rory McIlroy's awful collapse — are as close as the next shot.

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