- "The" Open. That is the name of the tournament. The long form is "The Open Championship, as determined by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews". The same for the "Amateur Championship". Americans, alone in the world, insist on calling these the "British Open" and "British Amateur". Its is just as wrong as Euros who insist on calling The Masters, "The US Masters".
- Almost every * State U is correctly "The * State U". Outlaw Staters will argue you until they explode that their school is unique in this respect, when it is not.
- Woods. Watching golf without Woods is just so much more enjoyable. Then networks, all of them, focus on him 40% of the time, even when he is 5 or more shots out, and 95% of the time if he is close. Its just not the way golf was covered before. DirecTV should have a "Traditional" channel in its multiplex and just cover the golf based on the current scores of the players, like they will this weekend, and not this guy.
- Equipment. Leaving out steroids, golf and tennis went in one direction, and baseball went in the other, when technology came in. In some alternate universe, it would be interesting to see a golf and a tennis that kept iron irons, wood woods, and so on. The "hit it really far and then use a recovery club" strategy of Woods and most of the pros of his generation would not be the standard there.
- Another reason to love golf, especially majors golf, and most especially The Masters and The Open Championship is where are the ads, other than on the players and then mostly only for golf equipment? There are not any. Golfers don't try to squeeze every penny out of a sport and make it a maze of commercialism.
