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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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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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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Adam Scott, British Open, Ernie Els, Tiger Woods 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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British Open, David Duval, Tiger Woods 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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