....is underway. Weather forecasts suggests a serious storm or two in the next 48 hrs could disrupt matters.
Hopefully a European can bring some of that Ryder Cup spirit to the greens and fairways as Rose, Westwood, Poulter and Donald need to fulfil Major ambitions.
But most predict Tiger will be the man come Sunday, as do I.
Still plenty of golf to go with turns a-plenty I've no doubt but Tiger will not be committing the fashion faux-pas today: Red and Green Should Never Be Seen.
I've a feeling it'll go to a play-off though, possibly a three way.
Birds? With Peter Alliss commentating, you'd expect us to know by now. You know the kind of thing. He'd wonder out loud, and ten minutes later tell us " Fred Smith, who is a member at Foxworth Abbey,that fine old Dorset course has emailed. Played there many a time myself. Old Bill Jones was the pro there for many years. My old father .....[continues in similar vein for five minutes between shots] Well, Fred says they're black- capped chickadees "
So now we know. See? Quicker than the Alliss method. But the writer of it did play at the Gog Magog, that fine old golf Varsity course outside Cambridge. Old Reg Cox was the pro there for many years, after he left Blackpool North Shore. Fred Puli won the long-handicap cup there one year....