Ladies British Open, 2009.


This week has the only ladies 'Major' on the European Tour, the British Open, being played over the wonderful links course at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. A true links golf course in located on the north west of England it has held 10 Open Championships that have been contested by the men since 1926 and will be host to it's eleventh Open in 2012. David Duval won the last mens Open played over Lytham in 2002.

The course is playing pretty tough over these first couple of days and this has been reflected in the cut being set at +9.

Now far be it from me to criticise the professionalism and atheleticism of the ladies game, but it does seem that the essential art of chipping from 80 yards, and in, on the links seems to be beyond these 'modern' women professionals. Extraodinary that the highly paid golf coaches have not been advising this part of the game prior to a Major tournament being played on a legendary links golf course.

I'm certainly looking forward to the weekend's competition as I feel anyone that has made the cut can win. A good favourite will be the wonderfully composed Scottish LPGA player, Catriona Matthew. She is currently in the lead after a superb couple of days, which has included a hole in one, and has her at the top of the leaderboard at -3 under.

A wee footnote to Catriona Matthew is that she gave birth to her second child 3 months ago. A tremendous performance already!


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