11.   Among the Americans, Tom Lehman, Lee Janzen and Corey Pavin could handle the wind that usually menaces the out-and-back links course.

12.   Both rounds came in the morning before rain and wind over the North Sea dunes toughened the Noordwijkse links course.

13.   Faldo, a three-time British Open champion, was asked if playing on the U.S. Tour had hurt him on links courses like Royal Troon.

14.   He also has experience of links courses similar to Carnoustie having won the British Amateur Championship at Muirfield last year.

15.   I also won the British Boys championship on a links course.

16.   In windy conditions on the exposed clifftop links course at La Moye, players struggled to come to grips with the conditions.

17.   Scores were high even though the links course was bathed in sunlight with only moderate winds.

18.   The Carnoustie links course has not been kind to Ballesteros.

19.   The holes facing the sound are like links courses and the wind can be judged, Johansson said.

20.   The layout was designed by five-time British Open champion Peter Thomson to look and play look like an English links course.