Ian Poulter calls Scottish Open weather the worst in his career, and that's saying something

Ian Poulter calls Scottish Open weather the worst in his career, and that's saying something

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — It’s like this, folks. Always has been, always will be. If you’re going to venture out onto a Scottish golf course in October, days like this are going to happen now and then. Or even then and now. So it wasn’t exactly unprecedented when the third round of the Scottish Open started off wet, veered into torrential, then descended steeply downhill into monsoon-like.

The last groups got the worst of it all, with a couple of extra obstacles thrown in. The halfway leaders finished in near darkness as the greenkeepers swept water off the 18th green at the close of what might loosely be termed “play.”

Still, it wasn’t quite impossible. As an elderly Scotsman who knew a thing or two about the game once said you need three things to be a good golfer: “Big hands, big feet and a big heid (head).” Fair enough, but on this day at the sodden Renaissance Club he might have added, “and a bit of experience helps too.” It is perhaps not a coincidence that three of the top-five places on the leader board are filled by men—Robert Rock, Ian Poulter and Wade Ormsby—of a more, ahem, mature vintage. Old heads more than big heads.

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