Can Tiger tame Turnberry?

IF Tiger Woods gets his putter working and manages to keep his golf ball in play for a reasonable amount of the time over the next four days, there can be no doubt as to who will be holding the claret jug on Sunday evening.

The runaway world number one has been denied a 15th major championship chiefly by poor putting and that weakness was at the fore in the US Open at Bethpage last month.

Having finished sixth there – just as he had done at the Masters in April – Woods groaned: “My good ones aren’t going in and my bad ones aren’t even close.”