The number one golf world, Tiger Woods the U.S., will seek to add to his honors its fifteenth 'big', taking advantage of the disputed British Open, starting Thursday in the field of Scots Turnberry.
The three previous editions of this forum saw outperformed Tom Watson Jack Nicklaus (1977), Greg Norman how he conquered his first Grand Slam title (1986) and how the Zimbabwean Nick Price was imposed eight years later.
Woods, champion and three British Open '(the last in 2006), also try to obscure their discrete actions in the first two years of major, the Masters and U.S. Open.
You'll be faced, for example, the Irish Pádraig Harrington, winner of the 2007 and 2008. But the defender of the British Open title is not at its best.
Harrington has not been cut six times in his last seven outings in the U.S. and European circuit. "If I'm in position to win, I know I can get," warns, warning of its potential.
"When Padraig is important and has to achieve a result, it does so," confirmed Woods. "Men who have won here are part of the best players of all time, or at least, of his era," the world number one.
Among the British representatives, the English Lee Westwood is in the form now, while their compatriots Paul Casey, third in the world list, and Ian Poulter, second last year, also appear with options.
The Spanish Sergio García, who likes this particular tournament, will try again to shine as two seasons ago when he was about to lift the trophy and it fell in the final tiebreaker.
