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I thought the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie approached the biggest botched golf course setup in major championship I had ever saw. (That was until Shinnecock in 2004…) Tiger Woods commented on that tournament in the lead up to this year’s Open Championship, which returns to Carnoustie.

“It was hard. It was really hard. I’ve never played a golf course as hard as that was set up - and as unfair as it was set up as well.”

He added: “I remember number six, stepping off the fairway nine yards wide in a lay-up area. That’s not a real big lay-up area when you have to hit a four iron.

“I think it’s a great golf course. I played two Scottish Opens there (1995 and 1996) and I thought it was one of the best golf courses I’ve ever played.

“Lo and behold, we come back in 1999 and it was not that way any more.”

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