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SI.com: Michael Bamberger: Walking the Old Course at St. Andrews

Duped tourists visiting St. Andrews will sometimes send postcards home describing the beauty of the city's most ancient links, the Old Course. Wish you were here! It's amusing, really. To me, the real postcard courses are in Ireland and Hawaii and on Scotland's west coast. Rolling duneland, crashing surf, long shadows, spongy green turf -- that whole thing. The Old Course -- in Fife, on the east coast -- is an ugly ole bastard, to my eye. The game's original 18-holer is hard and knobby, gray and urban and crowded, with weird, toothy animals darting in and out of the bushes at dusk. It's my favorite place in all of golf and all of sport. The place makes me happy. What can I say?

Time.com: Harrington Beats Norman at Birkdale

A smiling Irishman wins with good cheer, while Norman soars with brio and then does an all-too-familiar fade

SI.com: Sorenstam ends frustrating week at British

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) -- The Women's British Open was a mix of fun and frustration for Annika Sorenstam.

SI.com: Ochoa gets first major title at British Open

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) -- Lorena Ochoa won her first major title Sunday with a four-stroke victory at the Women's British Open - the first women's professional tournament played at venerable St. Andrews.

SI.com: PGA Championship Confidental

The knock on Woods

SI.com: Who's Next for No. 1?

Jim Furyk's back-to-back Canadian Open titles doesn't even merit a blip on the radar of this season's surprises.

SI.com: St. Andrews gives new look to women's golf

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) -- The Old Course at St. Andrews is giving women's golf a new look.

SI.com: 10 who could win

Nobody had Zach Johnson penciled in on the list of the game's best players who hadn't won a major. Now that he's won the Masters, he'll never make the list.

Fortune: Greg Norman: How to play my course

The golfing great offers a hole-by-hole guide to the links he personally designed for the Red Sky Golf Club in the Colorado mountains.

SI.com: Where'd everyone go?

YOU WOULD HAVE thought Sergio Garcia was the next Elvis the way crowds responded to him at the 1999 PGA Championship at Medinah Country Club outside Chicago. The smile, the daring, the vigor, and only 19 -- men exchanged high-fives, women swooned, and kids, well, kids adored him most of all. "It looks like they love me,"a grinning Garcia said after narrowly missing birdie putts on 17 and 18 and finishing second to Tiger Woods.

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