1.   And the Americans are dominating links courses in Europe.

2.   As with any links course, it is only a matter of how hard and from which direction.

3.   Entering the tournament, the suspicion was that Woods was still some years away from the patience and cunning required to master the vagaries of British links courses.

4.   Outside of the British Open, the Europeans play very few tournaments on links courses these days, diluting the advantage they once had.

5.   That same year, British golf-course architect Herbert Strong was hired to design a links course along the ocean.

6.   The changing of the winds on a good links course will make a hole play totally different from one day to the next.

7.   The forecast for Sunday is for high winds and some rain, true British Open weather on the truest of all links courses.

8.   The rough is high around the greens, which is unusual for a links course.

9.   Unlike the Scottish links courses and other seaside courses such as Pebble Beach, Augusta National is not known for its winds.

10.   Players worried privately about being embarrassed by a links course set up longer and narrower than any before.