(Reuters) - The man who played with Tom Watson in the final round of the 2009 British Open believes, perversely, that a good putt on the penultimate hole may have cost the American an astonishing victory and a place in the record books.Watson, then 59, agonisingly failed to make history as the oldest major winner after he bogeyed the final hole at Turnberry, before losing a playoff to compatriot Stewart Cink.
With his Australian playing partner Mathew Goggin looking on, Watson hit an eight-iron approach at the par-four 18th that ran through the green and the tightly-mown fringe, his ball not stopping until it had reached a collar of thicker grass.