Marks, but descriptions of various holes - especially the fourth, the " Himalayas,'' with a bunker as big as a swimming pool - are identifiable. In "Goldfinger,'' where Bond takes on Auric Goldfinger and his evil "caddie,'' Oddjob, Fleming named the course Royal St. If that sounds like the plot of a James Bond novel, Bond's creator, Fleming, became a St. He was a rookie then and benefited from back-nine failures by Woods, Vijay Singh, Davis Love III and Thomas Bjorn. George's in 2003 produced one of the biggest "Who's he?'' champions, Ben Curtis of Ohio. While McIlroy was climbing the ladder of stardom when he won the U.S.
"Now he's got that ahead of him and on the first tee, I think he will be mentally tired - but who am I to say?'' Whether it was the French or the Scottish Open, he could have got that out of his system and out of the way so he can start the Open afresh. "He's so natural, I don't think there are any fears about his game,'' Montgomerie pointed out, "but it's the locker room.
"I wanted to get everything out of the way and sorted, so when I did start playing again, I could just concentrate on golf.''īut Graeme McDowell, McIlroy's more experienced countryman and winner of the 2010 U.S Open at Pebble Beach, and three-time major champion Padraig Harrington said just receiving congratulations is a huge distractionĬolin Montgomerie, captain of the 2010 European Ryder Cup team which beat the United States, seemed worried about the same thing. It's because of what happened at Congressional and the way it became such a big deal. "Some people may have wondered why I chose to go straight from one major to another, without anything in between,'' the 22-year-old McIlroy said this week. McIlroy showed up at least twice at Wimbledon and jetted to Hamburg for last Saturday's Klitschko-Haye heavyweight championship fight. Open champion, will find out how it suits his game this week, and he hasn't played a competitive round since his overwhelming victory at Congressional.
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