08:00:00: Welcome to the 2008 Live Blog of the final round of the 2008 British Open. In a world currently without the #1 player, Tiger Woods, a former #1 player has a two-shot lead. Can Greg Norman, revitalized by his new bride (and lightened by his $103M divorce settlement) shave the decades and hold off last year’s winner, Padraig Harrington, and others like K.J. Choi, Simon Wakefield, Anthony Kim, Ben Curtis, and others?
08:18:30: In case it’s not obvious, I would like to see Greg Norman win. The last thing I want to see is another collapse. I’d rather someone slowly overtake him than that, but as I said, I’d rather nobody overtake him at all. Go Greg.
08:26:00: Greg makes his way to the practice range wearing the opposite colors of yesterday: cream below with black on top. Tom Watson talks about how Greg is practicing on the far right side, giving himself a right-to-left breeze, and points out that he’ll face a left-to-right breeze on the first hole.
Kenny Perry wins again, but still isn’t going to play in a major. Paula Creamer wins after collapsing at a major. Also this week, Tiger’s self-inflicted injury, Luke Donald, the psychology of golf hole size, and a whole lot more in this episode of Golf Talk.
Despite being known for making great irons and wedges, Mizuno has languished a bit in relative obscurity while irons and wedges from Titleist, TaylorMade, Callaway, and others have sold several times faster than those from Mizuno. Despite offering a pure, forged wedge, Mizuno doesn’t get a lot of play in the U.S. because, among other things, they pay very few PGA Tour pros to play their wedges. Go ahead, name a PGA Tour player (besides Luke Donald) who uses Mizuno? I’ll wait.
Last year at Oakmont, after arriving at 5:00am and still being only the sixth to make my way to the 18th hole grandstands, I watched Tiger Woods miss a birdie putt to force a playoff. This year, from about 50% closer, he