No one knows more about leaving a field in his dust than Tiger
Woods. He won by eight shots here 2000; five in 2005. And, well,
there was the 12-shot win at the 1999 Masters and the 15-shot win
at the 2000 U.S. Open. So what does he think of Louis Oosthuizen's
version of front-running here at the British Open? Pretty much an
A-plus. So far. When Woods finished, Oosthuizen still had a four
shot lead over Paul Casey and was up by eight over Lee Westwood and
Henrik Stenson. "He's doing all the things he needs to do,'' Woods
said of Oosthuizen. " He's being consistent, putting all the
pressure on Paul to come get him. He doesn't need to go out
there and shoot a low round today, just needs to be around par. "I
figure par or under par is going to win the tournament for
him. Like I said to Tom (Rinaldi of ESPN) earlier, there's
only one hard pin coming in, that's 16. Otherwise he can play
real defensive, real conservative and keep making his pars, and if
he happens to get a hole like 14 where he can get there in two or
18 he can drive, take advantage of making a birdie there, and
basically the tournament is his.''
-- Melanie Hauser