Paul Mac has a problem with people (I guess like me) calling the British Open, "the British Open." Here is what Paul said to me yesterday...The “British” Open is not the “British” Open… it’s THE Open Championship. Tiger Woods has registered to play in THE Open Championship not The British Open. The US Open came along a long time after The Open championship… there is no real need to say “British…”
Paul, you know I love you brother, but seriously? Are you Irish? Scottish? A Limey Brit? I just have to disagree with you Body. Just because it is old, you think it should JUST be the OPEN without the "BRITISH?"
Honestly, without America, golf isn't what it is now. Why do you think so many Euros come to America to play golf? Tons. Paddy, Sergio, Rory, Seve, Monty, Paul Casey, Ian, the list goes on and on.
How many "Yanks" go across the pond to play in the European Tour?
ZERO. that's how many.
The British Open IS WHAT IT IS because of the US of A. They should feel lucky that we still go play in those cow pastures over there. Who would NOT be in favor of dropping the British open in favor of calling The Players Championship @ TPC Sawgrass the fourth major? Any title Todd Hamilton and Ben Curtis have won shouldn't be a major.
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the TPC Sawgrass has not an 8th of the prestige of St Andrews or Carnoustie even if they are glorified cow pastures. Jacksonville is hardly cosmopolitan.
My point is not what is more relevant…. It’s the name of the tournament. I don’t call the Masters the “Southern Major Invitation Only Tournament”
Nor do I call the PGA the August Rotating Major Tournament somewhere in the US.
The name is “The Open Championship”
They don’t let you call the Peach Bowl the Peach Bowl anymore; it’s the Chick Fil A Bowl instead and they get very peeved if you don’t call it that… why do we call it the “British Open” if it’s really The Open Championship?
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