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Tuesday Trivia!

golfinglife — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:50:17 +0000

We are going to start Tuesday Trivia off with an easy question. This week’s question is about Tennessee National’s golf course designer Greg Norman.

In what years and what courses did Greg Norman win his two British Open titles? (example answer: 1984, St. Andrews & 1997, Royal Birkdale)

Leave your answer in the comments, the first person to answer correctly will win a Tennessee National golf shirt! Answers will be accepted until 8pm EST, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. The winner will be announced Wednesday morning. Good luck!

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Can these guys still play? The answer is yes.

golfinglife — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:00:18 +0000

As evidenced by Tom Watson’s extraordinary play at the British Open and Greg Norman’s play at last year’s Open. These guys on the senior tour can still play. That’s what Dave Shedloski over at the U.S. Senior Open, is talking about, these guys can still play. Hopefully it will energize a segment of the over 50 population to pick up their clubs and hit the links.

Then there’s Greg Norman, who served as inspiration for Watson’s run at Turnberry. Last year at Royal Birkdale, Norman held the 54-hole lead in the Open Championship before falling to Padraig Harrington. The two men, both winners of the Open Championship at Turnberry in previous editions (Norman in 1986, Watson in ’77) dined together on the Monday prior to this year’s event and talked about being competitive against the young guns.

“We still believe in ourselves and our ability to play certain places, and I think that’s what you saw with Tom, and with what I tried to do last year,” Norman said. “We both physically can still play the game at a high level, but it’s about staying young in the mind more than anything, and there are several guys now who can still compete with anybody in the world on a given week.”

Asked if he thought that he and Watson had earned greater respect for the denizens of the Champions Tour, Norman said: “I would hope so.I would hope it’s the younger generation sitting up and taking stock of the fact that if you are playing golf in your early 20s, you still got another 30-plus years of golf ahead of you. So just be patient and keep on your game plan and keep working at it. The game of golf will take it away from you but also give it back to you over a long period of time.”

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Tom Watson loses a heartbreaker to Stewart Cink in British Open

golfinglife — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:56:13 +0000

Tom Watson, in what could have been the greatest British Open victory in years, lost in a four hole playoff to Stewart Cink in the final round of the British Open. Over at golf.com they have all the details:

TURNBERRY, Scotland — At 6:19 p.m. Sunday, on a spit of land hard by the Firth of Clyde, an old man with a new hip strode down the center of a dusty fairway. The summer sun was bathing Turnberry in gold, exactly as it had 32 years ago, the very first time Tom Watson conquered these storied, ancient links.

Watson’s moment had come again, it seemed, and all of Turnberry felt it. The grandstands at the 18th hole creaked with the weight of the young and old. A silver trophy that Watson had won five times before was waiting in a trailer off the green.

A par would make the 59-year-old Watson the 138th and most improbable Open Champion. But destiny and the languid swing of Stewart Cink would deny him.

What are your thoughts on the final round of this year’s Open? Who did you want to win?

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