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Sal Johnson’s Golf Observer preview of the British Open

…or should I say Open Championship.

The article is here.

Things to note – “The old timers are saying this will go down as the greenest British Open ever.”

“on Sunday, it’s supposed to be sunny with 15-20 mph winds.”

…and this is huge…

“Talking about the media here at Royal Birkdale, the numbers are way down, I believe there is under 50 American’s in attendance. In the peak years of 2000 through 2005 I could swear that every media person in America came over (about 200), but with newspapers under a dark cloud the only papers that sent over golf writers are the USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, Oakland Tribune, New York Daily News, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times (their London writer, not there regular golfbeat writer). The future of newspapers is not very bright, for the folks in cities like Philadelphia, Palm Beach, Detroit and Chicago that are use to a lot of their own writers will have to do with wire copy that is on every source.”

Anyway, here are his picks.  He lists a few surprises and has some hysterical commentary!