LYTHAM ST. ANNES, ENGLAND (AP) - Thirteen seconds elapsed from the moment Adam Scott anchored the broomstick-length putter to his sternum and watched the 7-foot par putt slide by on the left side of the cup at 18, causing his knees to buckle. The rest of his golfing life may pass before he puts himself back in that position again. The major championship trophy that Scott seemed destined at long last to hold was firmly in Ernie Els‘ grasp instead. The Aussie’s eyes were still dry, but glassy. A few hundred yards away, a crowd that packed the last grandstand at Royal Lytham expecting to celebrate a once-precocious talent finally coming into his own at age 32, filed out in...
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