The Special One Alasdair Reid Meets a Man Who Struck Up a Relationship with the Great Ben Hogan
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THE finish. The endgame.
The stretch. Call it what you will, the one certainty about the four-act play that is Carnoustie's Open Championship is that its lasting imprint will be provided not by what we have seen so far but by its final scenes today. The lengthy preamble of the first three rounds might have tantalised the senses, but the denouement that is played out on the Angus linkslands will hold them in a vice-like grip.See the full content of this document
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The Special One Alasdair Reid Meets a Man Who Struck Up a Relationship with the Great Ben Hogan
So it always was. The first Carnoustie Open, in 1931, gave us the meltdown of the hapless Argentinean Jose Jurado, whose double-bogey at the 17th and a miscalculation at the last presented the title to Tommy Armour; the most recent, in 1999, brought the tragicomic shenanigans of Jean Van de Velde, paddli...
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