ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — This year, it’s Mark Calcavecchia doing the old guys proud.
The 1989 British Open champion posted the early low score of the day with a 5-under-par 67 on Friday, his best round ever at St. Andrews.
With the wind wreaking havoc on the Old Course, the score stood up, leaving Calcavecchia alone in second place, five strokes behind leader Louis Oosthuizen.
Not bad for a guy making the shuffle to the senior tour after turning 50 on June 12.
“It’s confidence,” Calcavecchia said. “You see a guy like Tom Watson last year almost winning at 60. It doesn’t really matter how old you are if you’re feeling good about what you’re doing. I think old guys can hang with the young guys.”
And nowhere, it seems, is age merely a number more than at the British Open.
Two years ago, for example, Greg Norman nearly won his third Claret Jug at 53.
