Bad sports, good sports: No walkers allowed on the 18th green

Twenty-six years after he last won a major, 59-year-old Tom Watson nearly won the British Open this week . In fact, he had a one stroke lead on the final hole, before he bogeyed the 18th and was forced into a playoff against Stewart Cink, who outlasted him in the playoff. Winning the tournament would have been an accomplishment of staggering proportions. Not only would Watson have been the oldest player to ever win a major, he would have bettered the record by eleven years. On the one hand,