Tiger Misses Cut; Watson Keeps Lead

(NEWSER) - Our outsized expectations for the “best player in his sport” mean Tiger Woods can’t get any “slack,” Michael Rosenberg writes for Fox Sports. “He missed the cut at the British Open last month and it was like he showed up drunk and club-less.” And his most recent win? “Tiger shot 19-under in the final three days of the Buick Open. Nobody else could do better than 17-under in four days.” More»

Leader's bogeys put him 1 stroke behind Brit

(NEWSER) - Tom Watson squandered a chance to become golf's oldest major champion today, as the 59-year-old American missed an 8-foot putt on the 72nd hole of the British Open, then lost a four-hole playoff to Stewart Cink. Cink won his first major title, but this one will be remembered as the one that Watson let get away when he had a historic victory in his grasp. More»

Hip replacement can't stop five-time American champ

(NEWSER) - A teary Tom Watson moved one hole closer to history today at the British Open, using two late birdies to take a one-stroke lead over younger upstarts Matthew Goggin of Australia and Ross Fisher of England, Golf.com reports. “It’s a surprise,” Watson said. The 59-year-old American, hoping to win a record sixth Open championship in tomorrow’s final day of play, already is the oldest player ever to lead a major going into the last round, Bloomberg notes. More»

(NEWSER) - Tom Watson—yep, that Tom Watson—found himself in an unusual spot today: explaining how on earth he's atop the leader board at the British Open at age 59. “I think there was some spirituality out there," he said after his 5-under-par 65, "just the serenity of it was pretty neat." Watson beat Jack Nicklaus by a stroke in a legendary duel 32 years ago on the same course, notes Bloomberg. More»

They do what they have to for kids

(NEWSER) - Relations are apparently so frosty between Tiger Woods and still-wife Elin Nordegren that the two were barely civil to one another at a recent birthday party for their 3-year-old daughter, Sam, reports Radar . The bash was the second thrown for Sam because Woods missed her first party to attend the US Open in California. He arrived nearly an hour late to the new 2-hour party. More»