{"id":21475,"date":"2017-07-13T09:07:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T09:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/british-open-versus-the-open\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T09:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T09:07:14","slug":"british-open-versus-the-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/british-open-versus-the-open\/","title":{"rendered":"British Open versus The Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is the eternal debate, pitting traditionalists (usually of UK origin) against heretics from other parts of the world who fiercely defend the status of their own national tournaments\u2026 US Open, Spanish Open, Australian Open, et al.<\/p>\n

During an NBC\/Golf Channel teleconference, a reporter asked Johnny Miller (winner of the 1973 US Open and 1976 \u201cBritish\u201d Open) if he ever got himself tripped up by calling the tournament \u201cthe Open Championship\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nick Faldo (1987, 1990 and 1992 \u201cThe Open\u201d champion) eagerly plunged into the discussion. \u201cThe Open Championship is incorrect. It\u2019s now the Open,\u201d he said, pointing out the tournament\u2019s recent re-brand. \u201cYou see? It\u2019s gone from the British Open, the Open Championship, now it\u2019s the Open.\u201d <\/p>\n

Miller replied that he was still confused by it all, but that it was always known as the British Open during his playing days and that\u2019s what he still called it \u2013 at least when he was not on air. \u201cI have trouble with it,\u201d Miller said. \u201cI screwed up one time last year, if you call it a screw-up, which is pretty good in four days.\u201d <\/p>\n

Prompting Faldo to conclude, \u201cIn another five years it will be just called \u2018The'\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is the eternal debate, pitting traditionalists (usually of UK origin) against heretics from other parts of the world who fiercely defend the status of their own national tournaments\u2026 US Open, Spanish Open, Australian Open, et al. During an NBC\/Golf Channel teleconference, a reporter asked Johnny Miller (winner of the 1973 US Open and 1976 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}