Walking up to the 15th green at Turnberry, his ball safely in the middle, Tiger Woods turned to his left and pointed to a spot a few yards off the putting surface.
“Is this where Watson made the putt?” he asked Monday morning.
Indeed, it was. Tom Watson holed a putt from some 60 feet for birdie in the final round of the 1977 Open Championship, pulling into a tie with Jack Nicklaus and sending him to a one-shot victory in one of the great duels in major championship history.
Two holes later, as gray clouds gathered at sea over the Ailsa Craig, a gust came up over the dunes.
Woods then asked about the time Greg Norman shot 63 at Turnberry in similar conditions in 1986, which some believe was the best of the 23 scores at 63 in any major.Woods is hardly a history buff, certainly not in the same league as Ben Crenshaw, from another generation, or Geoff Ogilvy, from this one. He does have a working knowledge of where he is playing, however, which is why his thoughts on Turnberry sounded ominous.
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