Best major this year was yesterday's British Open.
Carnoustie just sets up for perfect drama on the closing holes.
Plus they resolved the overly dense rough of the 1999 Open.
I'll agree that it was a great championship because of the great theater down the stretch. It was wrenching to watch Sergio choke just like it has been wrenching to watch Lefty do the same under pressure. Having said that, I do have to shoot this across the bow: 18 at Carnoustie just might be the stupidest finishing hole for a big-time tournament that I've ever seen! The hole would never be built today because it makes no sense off the tee and no sense into the green. Just because a course is very very very old doesn't mean that one can't criticize a crucial hole and I think 18 is an abomination.
Okay, Brits, have a piece of me...
I'll start. 18 at Carnoustie isn't very, very old. It was, I believe, developed in the '30s with the specific intention of turning Carnoustie into a potential Open venue. I don't understand why you thinkit makes no sense off the tee or into the green. Tough shots both but then they should be for the closing hole of a Major but there are options off the tee (and more than just driver or long iron, as Harrington showed in the play-off). I think 18 makes the players think more than most holes of that length. KJ Choi, for one, played the hole as a par 5 each day.