The Open Saved Summer Sports, and In a Way It Saved Walker's Rants

2) they definitely need to at least change it so pitchers who pitched the sunday before the all-star break are not on the active roster. You don't need pitchers getting hurt for an exhibition game and you don't need pitchers on the roster who the managers don't want to use.

3) Posey is definitely not worth the money, but more power to him for getting it. maybe he can have some man love for CP3 this year.

That's more remarkable then winning the US Open on messed up knee and leg??? (which he made worse in the tournament) That's more remarkable then sinking tieing putt on the last hole of a Major Championship?

For Norman to have won The Open Championship, he'd have had to shoot 70 in the last round, which was as good as he'd done in the rest of the week. 71 to force a playoff. Harrington shot 69 in the final round to beat him, which given that only a handful of rounds all week were under 70 (par for the course), was a brilliant achievement. There was no way that Norman was going to shoot 70 on the last day. Harrington won The Open, rather than Norman lost it, and I think Norman realised that.

As for the course, as Kelsdad said, The Open is the best major championship, because it doesn't have to have 525 yard par 4 holes to make it difficult. Because we hold it on a links, we can rely on the wind and possible rain to make it challenging. That's the problem with golf in America, you don't have the weather to make it difficult. Even Pebble Beach isn't a true links in that the wind never gets up to what it can do/does on a British links. That's why the USGA has to make courses stupidly long to stop players going too far under par. The only criticism of the course that I had was the 6th hole. It was 499 yards, and used to be a par 5, but for The Open, it became a par 4. It was into the wind all week, and nobody could reach it in 2. So, the R&A brought the tees forward 20 yards. They did that on a number of holes that were unplayable due to the wind. The 6th should be a par 5 anyway, it was never designed as a 4. Apart from that, the course was magnificant, a true test of links golf. Nobody complained about it, in contrast to the courses used for the three majors held in the US in recent times.