otter...
...you got that right...
Alex...This course evens everyone in the field out
...and it isn't horribly long like Bethpage although a few holes, well, I couldn't get there on a bus.
(aside: I was playing at this nice little muni in Phoenix years ago, (I mean nice! and this place was as public as it gets). I played with a trash truck driver and two civil servant types. Anyway, I'm in the middle of the fairway on a par 5 after CRUSHING one, oh, maybe 230 or so, right down the middle. I'm out at least 300, thinking as always of how to get home in two, looking for a yardage, right? So, here's a sprinkler head a few paces CLOSER to the green and the plate says (I am not kidding) "Not even on a bus". True story.
...ANYWAY, this Open should be a real stampede because the field is chock full of GREAT players (as always) and a bunch of them actually have a chance because of the course.
I see no way for Tiger to pull this off. To many people have a legitimate shot and he isn't patient enough to wait 'em out and let them all fade on Sunday.
Or...maybe he is???