ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Tiger Woods loitered on the 16th green of the Old Course on Monday night, spending several minutes hitting putts to different spots. It was the last hole he was playing in his practice round, but before Woods could leave, he had one piece of unfinished business.
Woods, who has won two British Opens on the course, waited until the solitary golfer who had started several minutes after him struck his approach at No. 16. Then, as Jordan Spieth reached the green, Woods met him with a congratulatory handshake. A day after playing 20 holes at the John Deere Classic, including two in a sudden-death playoff that sealed his fourth victory of 2015, Spieth was getting in a full round at the Old Course to better acquaint himself with a layout he had seen only once before.