Legion are those who will tell you that the back nine on the often bleak, barren and desolate Carnoustie Links is perhaps the most challenging second half in golf.
Playing in the opening round of the 2024 Senior Open Championship, the former Ryder Cupper went to tap in for bogey on the seventh hole after missing a par putt and completely whiffed.
Alister Scott is the regular first-tee announcer on the DP World Tour, so he’s a pro’s pro. And he proved it on Sunday, bringing the energy and a nice Scottish brogue as he stood sentry and read the names of the 70 golfers who played in rotten weather.
The four-time Major champion laid out how he would be handling the current conflict between the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series and the strategic alliance formed by the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour.
It is surely a question asked by many of Bernhard Langer’s fellow competitors on the PGA Tour Champions: What is the secret behind the 63-year-old German’s longevity?
Catching up with mates and then kicking their butts. That’s the strategy that Robert Allenby intends to employ as he makes his Champions Tour debut at this week’s Senior Open Championship at Sunningdale Golf Club in London.