Halcyon days for two Toms

IT was as if they had turned the clocks back 140 years or so, to those days when Old Tom and Young Tom ruled the fairways of Prestwick in the annual British Open Championship.

Because there they were for so many moments in pulsating warmth on the edge of the English Channel, Old Tom and Young Tom, dominating the Royal St George’s stage in the second round of the 140th British Open.

Tom Watson, 61, and Tom Lewis, 20, for two days traded highlights that captivated crowds of people spread out high atop sand dunes over this massive links.