British Open: Claret Jug Is a Trophy With Tales to Tell
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Like Lord Stanleyâs Cup and the Masters green jacket, the claret jug, the oldest trophy in major championship golf, has long held a mystical and celebratory quality.
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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AFP/AFP) - Padraig Harrington won the British Open here on Sunday defeating Sergio Garcia in a four-hole play off as once again Carnoustie threw-up a high-drama finish over its closing stretch.
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It was an emotional reunion. Heck, it nearly brought Zach Johnson to tears. That's the degree of attachment between Johnson and the clubs he used to win the Masters.
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This is no time for Colin Montgomerie to get excited about Carnoustie. He already has suffered enough. The sometimes burly, often surly Scot should be positively chuffed with the British Open only a week away. Having gone 18 months without a trophy that belonged only to him, Montgomerie ended one of the longest dry spells of his career when his 6-iron somehow stayed out of the water on the 18th hole and he won the European Open by one shot.
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Annika Sorenstam, Karrie Webb and Se Ri Pak are out of their so-called slumps and winning majors again. Michelle Wie feels she's on the brink of winning her first tournament. The Women's British Open begins Thursday at wind-swept Royal Lytham with a field featuring this season's three major winners holding a combined total of 22.
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Oxford, the pre-match favourites, reclaimed the MMC Trophy in one of the better Varsity matches for some time here yesterday. But this, the 123rd staging of the annual amateur
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The honour roll at the Hamlet Golf and Country Club reads as a who&#39;s who of modern-day US Open tennis champions. Ivan Lendl, Stefan Edberg, Andre Agassi and Patrick Rafter have all triumphed
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Out on the golf course in Sunday's final round of the Tour Championship, the ongoing story of human athletic skill was being provided by Tiger Woods.
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Q: Congratulations, Tiger, on your second championship here at the Target World Challenge. It&#39;s been pretty special to have your dad hand you that trophy again.
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STEPHEN Gallacher won a European Tour event at the 188th attempt yesterday. The talented Scot, who turned professional nine years past, birdied the first extra hole of a sudden death play-off at the Old Course
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The bargain is rarely this simple. Make birdie at either No. 17 or 18 and force a playoff. Birdie them both and the U.S. Open trophy rides home in the back seat of the car that carried Tiger Woods out onto Hulton Road late Sunday afternoon and away from Oakmont Country Club.
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For great athletes like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods, there is a fellowship at the top.
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The British Open will be played at Royal St. George's in 2011 and Royal Lytham & St. Annes in 2012, the first time golf's oldest championship will be held in England in consecutive years.
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Marc Warren birdied the second playoff hole Sunday to beat Simon Wakefield and become the first Scottish winner of the Johnnie Walker Championship.
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Mark Calcavecchia has gone through his share of ups and downs, from winning a British Open to finishing countless rounds without a full set of clubs because some of them wound up at the bottom of ponds.
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South Africa's Anton Haig won a three-way playoff with compatriot Richard Sterne and England's Oliver Wilson to win his first European Tour title at the Johnnie Walker Classic on Sunday.
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Paul Lawrie won the British Open the last time it was played at Carnoustie, but the 1999 tournament will for ever be known as the Open Jean Van de Velde lost.