Course has changed since Tiger’s ’06 win
Woods won his third and most recent Open here in ’06 during a season which had seen him come up short at the Masters — watched for the last time in a Major by his dying father Earl — then miss the cut at the US Open in the wake of his mentor’s death.
When he got to the seaside village of Hoylake, on England’s Wirral peninsula, a sense of peace had taken over his mind and he found a dusty, sun-parched links at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in the midst of a heat wave that helped him set about dominating the field by leaving his driver in the bag for all but one of the 72 holes.
