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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Global Golf Post: Amid What's Wrong, The Open Has It Right

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, ENGLAND -- Oh, woe is England. Pickpocketing and shoplifting are on the increase. "Shameful" -- that's what the headline said -- civil servants planned to strike Heathrow Airport as Olympic Games traffic reached a peak.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Triple bogey undoes Tiger Woods' hopes

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England -- The game plan, Tiger Woods said, was to shoot under par going out. Instead, with a triple-bogey 7 on the sixth hole after landing in one of Royal Lytham & St. Annes' steep and evil bunkers, he shot himself in the foot.

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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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