As dusk turned to twilight — or as the Scottish fancy it, "gloaming" — came Friday, ceremony and nostalgia trumped all at the British Open on the Old Course.
Tom Watson walked across the Swilcan Bridge, the crossover from the 18th tee to the 18th green, for the last time.
It was 9:45 p.m. Even here, in the northern reaches of the United Kingdom, it is quite dark at that time. But the Royal and Ancient, the group that runs the British Open, let Watson and his playing partners, Ernie Els and Brandt Snedeker, play on.