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I did not watch 1 minute of the British Open this weekend. Not even 30 seconds. I usually don't start watching a golf tournament until the weekend and once I found out Tiger Woods had missed the cut I decided this was one Major I would skip. Plus who can be bothered to wake up before noon?

I personally don't feel like I missed much but don't tell that to any sports writer in America because they will have you believe it was a British Open for the ages.

Tom Watson, age 59, was attempting to become the oldest man to win a PGA Major but was defeated in a 4 hole playoff by Stewart Cink. Watson had a chance to win the tournament but choked on an 8 foot putt that would have won it.

The tournament is being heralded as one of the greatest in history. To someone who makes this claim I have only one question: why?

Tell me why a 59 year old irrelevant golfer beating a younger irrelevant golfer is so significant.

Cink has only 6 PGA wins in his 14 year professional career and before Sunday he had never won a major. His last tour win occurred just over a year ago at the Travelers Championship.

Watson has 39 PGA wins in his 38 year career and has won 8 Majors with the latest being in 1983 when he won the Open Championship. He hasn't won on the PGA tour since 1998 and has been out of the spotlight for quite some time.

So these are the two men who apparently made the British Open worth watching. A former great and a mediocre player.

Watson was the star of the story as people kept trying to make it seem as though being the oldest man to win a Major was impressive. To them I have only one comment. It's golf.

Being old and winning at golf isn't impressive to me. It is not a physically demanding sport and is the only major sport in which people compete well into their 60s and sometimes 70s. I mean they have a Seniors Tour!

Show me Watson leading a football team to the SuperBowl at age 59 and I will be in awe. A man age 59 doing well at golf, who cares? This is merely the media trying to make a PGA event without Tiger interesting.

The only impressive thing that Watson did was play 18 holes without having to run to the bathroom every 5 minutes.

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