Missing links turns up to dramatic effect

So it was only an 18-hole British Open this year.

Brief that it was, it was highly entertaining.

Certainly, for the first three rounds of the 141st edition of the most flavourful of golf tournaments, it felt like a weekly stop on the pro golf circuits — be they in the US, Europe or Asia. The wind was down at Royal Lytham & St Annes, so the ball was up — way, way up, in the air, that is, and when it landed on the greens, more times than not it checked up, moved just a few feet, and came to a stop.