Because of the history of the Old Course, moving hazards is not the option it would be at many other places, ... You can't simply move a bunker here and there on The Old Course. All that leaves is to move tees. |
Because of the history of the Old Course, moving hazards is not the option it would be at many other places. You can't simply move a bunker here and there on The Old Course. All that leaves is to move tees. |
Golf likes to come to St Andrews with reasonable frequency and when the eyes of the world are on St Andrews it does the Open a lot of good. |
I am delighted that a qualification route has now been established for the best women players to gain access to the championship, competing alongside men on the same courses and from the same tees. |
I completely disagree. The Road Hole bunker has never been the same from one Open to the next. To say it has been ruined from what it was is completely false. I think that bunker has improved from what it was. |
I have to confess we have made a mistake on that, ... We could stand accused of making it totally inconvenient for players competing in America, so we are going to adjust the dates but they will be that week. |
I personally hope we will see women enter the championship. We didn't open the event up to them in the hope they wouldn't come. It's a shame if none of them takes up the opportunity. |
I really felt for him on the line but I take a win when I get one, |
I'd been suspicious for a while. We had some players put their wedges in for approval prior to last year's [British] Open, and we didn't allow some of them to be used. |
It's been a long time since I've had a really big win like this so I'm ecstatic. |
Mark did some very good turns and Matt put in an awesome ride. |
Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open, |
The 18th hole will present a birdie opportunity but as a dog-leg hole with out-of-bounds ever present it will also be a hole for potential disaster. |
The difficulty we had was establishing equivalence between the men's and women's game. |
The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before. |