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...play means Morariu is already a winner. FORMULA ONE Another Race, Another Win The great thing about sport is unpredictability. Unless you have your shirt riding on it, there is no better fun than seeing the favorite beaten. Watching the sublime Tiger Woods struggling against the elements at Muirfield fed the need among the rest of us to know that nobody's perfect. That is why the Formula One season has become a bit of a bore. The Ferraris have been so strong that unless the two red cars take each other out on the first corner, no one else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Money, No Kickoff | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

...Young Tom), Bobby Jones and Henry Cotton, a serious golfer cannot be confirmed without going home to the broom and bracken of the Old Course. Furthermore, it is considered a crime against nature to trace a route any less circuitous than by way of Turnberry, Troon, Prestwick and Muirfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Misty Birthplace of Golf | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...last stop before the city of St. Andrews in the kingdom of Fife is the east coast and Muirfield, the most elegant estate on the Firth of Forth. No trees, no burns (creeks), 165 sand traps. It is raining sideways, and one of the caddies is a matron named Heather, who replies in confusion to every profane mention of the stuff. Keep a grip on the club, get a grip on yourself. The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers goes back to 1744 and leather golf balls filled with boiled feathers. But the club still hasn't got around to building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Misty Birthplace of Golf | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...table, a steely old Scot with a military carriage who ought to have side- whiskers introduces his grandson and retells his favorite Muirfield tale of the day Watson both won the 1980 Open and was kicked off the course. With authentic old niblicks and featheries, he had gone back out after hours in the company of the historian Ben Crenshaw, only for a hole or two, to cement his memory. The club secretary, Paddy Hamner, dragged them off by the ears. "But, of course," the grandfather says, "you're on that same sort of mission, aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Misty Birthplace of Golf | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...lost two years ago at the Belfry Club in England to Spain's Seve Ballesteros and Germany's Bernhard Langer, the foremost golfers in the world. This time Captain Jack Nicklaus is optimistic about the Yanks' chances. Australian Greg Norman is neutral, and the site, Nicklaus' own Muirfield Village course in Ohio, is particularly unfamiliar to the foreign players. The annual Memorial Tournament there regularly conflicts with the British P.G.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Newly At A Loss for Worlds | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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