The amazing thing about Henry Cotton's first two rounds in last week's British Open Golf Championship at Sandwich was not that the first (67) tied Walter Hagen's record for the Open nor that the second (65) set a new record and put him nine strokes ahead of the field. It was the fact that Cotton is a Briton. No Englishman has won the British Open since Arthur Havers (1923).
A tall, handsome, debonair young golfer, with a job at the Waterloo Club at Brussels, Cotton plays without the characteristic nervous waggle of his British...
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