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8:20AM

Newsday (N.Y.): Brandt Snedeker charges to lead at British Open; Tiger Woods 4 back

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England -- Brandt Snedeker tied a British Open scoring record Friday, sat down in the media tent and true to his hang-loose character insisted, "I'm sure everybody in the room is in about as much shock as I am right now.''

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Copyright © 2012 Newsday. All rights reserved.

10:50PM

Newsday (N.Y.): Golfers expecting rough time of it at British Open

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England -- It is a course of too many bunkers and too little room. Royal Lytham & St. Annes is squeezed between railroad tracks and brick Victorian homes, where Bobby Jones got a title, Tiger Woods got confidence and David Duval's fling with greatness reached its apogee.

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Copyright © 2012 Newsday. All rights reserved.


9:55AM

RealClearSports: Tiger and the Course of History

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England - It is a place of history, not beauty, a links course next to Victorian homes instead of the coastline. Blackpool, Britain's idea of Coney Island, is up the road, and the Beatles' home, Liverpool, is some 30 miles to the south, another reminder of the area's proletarian setting.

Royal Lytham & St. Annes, where the 141st British Open starts Thursday, isn't much for aesthetics. The elegance comes from the test it provides and from the players in 10 previous Opens, Bobby Jones to David Duval, who conquered her.

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10:34AM

PGA.com: Americans play crucial role in Open's success

By Art Spander
Special to PGA.com

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England – In a land of royalty, we begin with The King. Not of the nation but of the country of golf, Arnold Palmer. He believed in the Open Championship, in what could be described as a sporting manifest destiny, of Americans crossing not mountains but the sea, to accept a challenge and win a championship.

Since 1922, when Walter Hagen, also given a title that would fit in Britain, “Sir Haig," there have been 89 Opens and 40 native-born American winners. That includes the last two at this year's venue, Royal Lytham & St. Annes on the Lancashire Coast -- Tom Lehman in 1996 and David Duval in 2001.

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9:42AM

RealClearSports: Mickelson, U.S. Women Are Not Losers

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com


SANDWICH, England — Wonder what the One Great Scorer is thinking these days? He's the one Grantland Rice poetically told us will take more notice on how we played the game than whether we won or lost.

Not a very modern concept one would conclude. Or is it?

The heroes and heroines deservedly were Darren Clarke, who took the British Open ...

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