If he can win here, he can win anywhere, and probably will. After the mistake last year at Carnoustie when the Royal and Ancient Golf Club absurdly copied a U.S. Open layout with tight fairways and gruesome rough, it has, in the year of the millennium and at the home of golf, let St. Andrews be St. Andrews. I have to say we have exactly the golf course we wanted. Before the Open, there was talk that no course better suited Woods' game, especially his distance off the tee, which would enable him to not only drive six of the course's 14 par-4 holes, but fly the deep and deadly bunkers intimidating ordinary players. The fairways are so firm Woods had called them faster than the greens.
Balls hit downwind go unrecognizable distances.
Colin Montgomerie won't use the Callaway ERC driver, even though it is legal here but not in the United States. I don't have to hit it any farther, thank you very much, because that farther distance can get you into trouble. I did it yesterday. It is where you hit it and how close you can get it to the hole that will matter most. In a way, St. Andrews has been made shorter rather than longer to slow down Woods.