IT WAS synonymous with the soggy summer. On the eve of the 141st Open Championship – the 11th to be staged at this splendid Lancashire links – preferred lies were on the agenda. Thankfully, it seems we will be spared the sight – an unthinkable one normally at any time on a seaside course – of a lift, clean and place process being in operation after summer did break out, briefly, yesterday afternoon.




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