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Stewart Cink: Open Champion

He seemed to come out of no where, an afterthought tugging at the coattails of a parent involved in important adult conversation. With a 12 foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole of his tournament, Mr. Cink seemed to get afterthought attention. Oh look, Stewie is 2 under, lets go back to the real story of the battle between the Great White (English) Hope Lee Westwood and Old Man Who Walks on Water Tom Watson. I have to admit I never expected Mr. Cink to make that putt. Yes he’s been a Ryder Cup player and yes he’s made some clutch putts in that format, but in stroke play my recollections of Mr. Cink and the lead are more of the throat grabbing, what’s that terrible choking sound variety. No offense to Mr. Cink, I know he’s won six times, and made over $27 million during his career, but he never seemed like a clutch guy to me. Nice game, nice guy from all reports, attractive family, lots of bank, but clutch, no way, clutch guys win more than six times in fourteen years.

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17 years ago

Jul 20, 2009

Eric Schuster

The story of the tournament will be always and forever, 59 year Tom Watson leading the Open championship after 71 marvelous holes. Needing a par on the 72nd hole to capture his 6th Claret Jug and make all kinds of history, most of which had been chronicled ad nauseum by the adoring broadcasters, Mr. Watson drilled a tee shot to the middle of the fairway. Here’s were the fairy tale go horribly wrong. His eight iron second shot, juiced with whatever reserves of adrenaline and Geritol flowed through his veins, went over the green (the post mortem eulogizers all agree he should have hit the nine). His chip was overly agressive and went 8 feet by the hole. And his putt to win the Open for a sixth time was a weak wimpy effort. The only really wimpy effort of the day, and the kind that reminded everyone watching that hey, this guy is 25 years past his prime. When that putt trailed off short and left all the magic that had propelled Mr. Watson for the week decided it was time to return to the haunts of Robert the Bruce’s ruined castle. If you didn’t know it was over, you certainly entertained the thought desperately attempting to stuff that sacreligiousness back whence it came. Too late. The end had arrived, the formality of a burial service left undone. The four hole playoff was a lot like Requiem for a Dream, during which I couldn’t help but think that dreams are like rainbows, only idiots chase them (apologizes to the folks at Despair Inc).

All the hoopla concerning Mr. Watson age seemed, ah, overdone, overcooked, maybe totally overboard. Yes he is 59 going on 60 years old, but take a good hard look at the man. Now go out to the nearest mall and look at all the men there who seem to be 59 almost 60 years old, heck look at most of the men in their mid-forties. Take a good look at the guys on the Champions Tour. Do they bear any kind of resemblance to Mr. Watson? Seriously now. I don’t care how old he is, the man has taken care of himself and still looks like an athlete. Mark Calcavecchia looks older than Mr. Watson, and he’s eleven years younger. There’s still the competitive fire in Mr. Watson that in most older players dissapates after you’ve worked for your entire life to be the best. Age is not what it used to be, don’t be surprised to see something like this again, maybe not soon, but it will happen. What with all the advancements in diet, exercise, and medicine you’ll see more and more old farts being competitive, under the correct conditions, at this age.

I feel for Mr. Watson, he was so close. So very very close. I salute Mr. Cink, he won himself a Major, something a lot of really good players have never done. It was an Open to remember, and at the risk of hyperbole, it was one for the ages.

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Jul 24, 2009 at 3:55 am

It says a lot more about the Alisa Course, a resort course, than it does about Mr. Watson’s prowess, however distinctive it may have been over four days. Except for St. Andrews, the Brits are short of gutsy, unyielding championship courses and rely on the weather (they can’t be said to have a climate) to prop up the degree of challenge. Having said this, Mr. Watson would have made history, but
what a competitive spirit in Stewart Cink, we did not know existed.

I always found Nicklaus more accomplished than Watson, similarly
Sandy Lyle a better golfer than Colin Montgomery, notwithstanding either’s accomplishments.

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