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Watson turned Turnberry's tide

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Friday, July 17, 2009

TURNBERRY, Scotland -- Thanks, Tom. Thanks for saving this Open Championship from post-Tiger Woods withdrawal. Thanks for single-handedly rescuing a tournament that had its steering wheel turned toward ZZZZZurnberry and a leaderboard of Who's-That?, What's-His-Face and So-and-So. We owe you, Tom Watson. When Woods, the world's No. 1 and favorite of every major and minor, shockingly couldn't make the cut here, the Open suffered an immediate star-power outage. But the nearly 60-year-old Watson k ...

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