Glover quietly working away

IT was an inquiry regarding an Open Championship long ago, the 1999 debacle at Carnoustie. Wasn’t it Davis Love who said something to the effect that championship officials got the winner they deserved, meaning that a tricked-up course couldn’t help but produce a winner (Paul Lawrie) deemed as undeserving?

Seems to me that Love has always denied saying that, but anyway, my bigger concern was this: What did that have to do with the 138th Open Championship, which commences today at Turnberry?

For one, came the answer, Love is paired with Lawrie in Game 42 today. Given that we’re 10 years removed from Carnoustie, it made sense to yawn.