Newsday (N.Y.): Justin Rose blooming as British Open awaits

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

HOYLAKE, England — To steal a line from the Beatles, who began just across the River Mersey, Justin Rose's career has been a long and winding road.

Twenty-eight miles from Royal Birkdale to the north — where in the 1998 British Open Rose hit the spotlight before he hit the skids — to the 2014 Open, which starts Thursday at Royal Liverpool.

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Bleacher Report: Tiger Woods Buzz Is Back in Full Force Despite Doubts at 2014 British Open

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

HOYLAKE, England — Suddenly golf is more than a four-letter word. It’s an attraction, a mystery, a sport so significant ESPN is providing live coverage on its website of every shot hit by the man who’s the cause of it all: Tiger Woods.

Tiger in the Open Championship, in a major for the first time this year, held on the course at Royal Liverpool, where he won in 2006. The Return of the Tiger, film at 11.

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Bleacher Report: Phil Mickelson's Major Window Looks Shut as British Open Title Defense Begins

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

HOYLAKE, England — The one admission was unavoidable. “It hasn’t been a very good year,” affirmed Phil Mickelson. Not at all.

Not when he missed the cut in the Masters and finished 28th in the U.S. Open.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Tiger Woods returns to site of great triumph

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

HOYLAKE, England — The timing is perfect. The World Cup finally exits the sporting stage and starting Thursday ready to step on are Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy — and for the first time this year in a major championship — Tiger Woods.

We're in Beatles Country, for those with a nostalgic bent, across the Mersey River from their city, at a golf course formally named Royal Liverpool but known more familiarly by its location, Hoylake, the town where the River Dee Estuary flows into the Irish Sea.

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Global Golf Post: 'Ye Here For The Golf?'

By Art Spander
GlobalGolfPost.com

GULLANE, SCOTLAND - Ay, laddie, Scotland, where Bobby Burns gave us "Auld Acquaintance"...

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