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Many of the world's best humbled by Royal Birkdale, Mother Nature

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Thursday, July 17, 2008

SOUTHPORT, England -- Ever play golf in a car wash? Wish you could hit 4-irons in a wind tunnel? Enjoy watching your fingers turn Dodger blue? Well, we'd love to have you here at the cold and flu season known as the 137th British Open. It's the Kimbo Slice of majors. "It was miserable, miserable, miserable weather," said Vijay Singh, who posted an opening-round Jeremy Shockey (80, 10 over par) at cold, heartless Royal Birkdale. "If this is the summer, I couldn't live here," said Boo Weekley ...

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