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As any golf fan knows, feel-good stories at majors normally last a day. The lesser known kid has a great opening round, or the player that had a family member pass away gets out to a fast start, or an old-timer comes back for one last shining moment. The latter of those three would be Tom Watson at the British Open on Thursday. Playing a venue he famously won in 1977, Watson rolled the clock back with a 5-under 65 to land within a shot of the lead on day one. The problem, however, is that the 59-year-old Watson is not going anywhere. On a windy day where Watson was on the bad side of an afternoon draw, the older TW shot even-par on Friday to tie Steve Marino at the top of the leaderboard, and put an exclamation point on his round with an across the green birdie putt on 18 that dropped in.
Watson looked rather hopeless as his day began. A birdie on the first hole had him at 6-under for the championship, but bogeys on five of his next six holes had the five-time champion at 1-under, four shots back of Marino who was already in the clubhouse.
Some would have thought that that was it. He's too old to contend in these conditions anyway, right?
A birdie on ninth, followed by a bogey-free 32 on the back nine has Watson in the final pairing for Saturday with Marino, a relative unknown. Marino was an alternate in the field at Turnberry, playing his first links golf ever this week after he found out he was in the field.
Maybe you don't know a lot about Marino's game, but he isn't some halfway punk. The 29-year-old once shot a 59 in a mini tour championship and is 23rd on the FedEx Cup standings this year. Marino finished second at the Colonial, and is in contention at Turnberry after solid rounds of 67-68.
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