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By Cameron Morfit Senior Writer, GOLF Magazine Published: July 15, 2008 SOUTHPORT, England — Players have downplayed the absence of Tiger Woods at the 137th British Open at Royal Birkdale this week. "It's bigger than any one golfer," Lee Westwood and others said in lockstep. Second-ranked Phil Mickelson steered around the subject of the ghost hovering over this Open, but his questioner pressed on: "You can't say anything about Tiger?" "Oh, I'm sure I could," Mickelson said, prompting laughter. Then Geoff Ogilvy came into the interview room and said, with tongue only half in cheek: "I just hope they've taught the engraver how to put an asterisk on the trophy." There was an audible gasp in the media room. "No, it is what it is," Ogilvy continued. "Tournaments feel better when he's here, for sure. If any tournaments can stand up... [read full story]
