TROON, Scotland -- The Open Championship, the final major championship of the season, starts Thursday at Royal Troon Golf Course on Scotland's west coast.
The Open is typically the most wide-open of the four majors, which is how it produced previous champions like Todd Hamilton, Ben Curtis, Paul Lawrie and others. The firm fairways and slow greens of links golf help make it anyone's tournament to win.
"I can just see how somebody who is either a bit older or maybe not as talented as some of us out here, like you take a 10 handicap that only carries it 200 yards, they can run it up and have fun and not lose many balls," world No.