http://www.buzzingolf.co.uk/tom-watson-shines-in-british-open/419 Swing Your Clubs Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:47:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.buzzingolf.co.uk/tom-watson-shines-in-british-open/419/comment-page-1#comment-10795 mario Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:57:08 +0000 http://www.buzzingolf.co.uk/?p=419#comment-10795 Don't know what to say. It was an awful moment seeing Tom Watson up to his knees in the rough on that Turnberry playoff. I remember watching di Marco come so close, against Woods, where he seemingly couldn't get anything to go his way. But that wasn't a fraction of what happened here. That weird bounce on the 18th was agonising. All credit to Cink; but he had no power over that bounce. We can only hope there's some higher order where that awful moment was somehow something other than what it seemed. It was a blow for all who have felt their most supreme efforts in life go unrewarded. It was a bitter taste of the indifference of causality. But it was also a wonderful reminder of what can at least be possible. And Tom's graciousness (in what must have been a totally gut-wrenching defeat... he surely knew he was unlikely ever to come back and get another chance) was deeply inspiring. Sometimes one feels 'hell, it's just golf! - sports, money, fame... so what?' But yesterday was too human for that. I almost wish that players finishing on the same score would share the title. Don’t know what to say. It was an awful moment seeing Tom Watson up to his knees in the rough on that Turnberry playoff. I remember watching di Marco come so close, against Woods, where he seemingly couldn’t get anything to go his way. But that wasn’t a fraction of what happened here. That weird bounce on the 18th was agonising. All credit to Cink; but he had no power over that bounce. We can only hope there’s some higher order where that awful moment was somehow something other than what it seemed. It was a blow for all who have felt their most supreme efforts in life go unrewarded. It was a bitter taste of the indifference of causality. But it was also a wonderful reminder of what can at least be possible. And Tom’s graciousness (in what must have been a totally gut-wrenching defeat… he surely knew he was unlikely ever to come back and get another chance) was deeply inspiring. Sometimes one feels ‘hell, it’s just golf! – sports, money, fame… so what?’ But yesterday was too human for that. I almost wish that players finishing on the same score would share the title.

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