Open Notes: R&A Admits To Keeping Royal St George's Softer In Bid To Keep Balls Out Of The Rough

We learned the links is getting water to keep it, gulp, fair. Plus, the (The) Open name debate, reads, final odds and Tweets as the 2021 championship arrives

The 18th on the eve of The Open (The Open Instagram)

My R&A press conference bingo board did not include cover anything about Chief Martin Slumbers issuing a “Non-Denial-Denial That They’re Watering Fairways To Keep Drives From Bouncing Into The Rough”.

Bingo boards just aren’t what they used to be.

Do me a favor and set aside the logic of a major trying…