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Show Great Britain's Guard Has Definitely Passed Great Britain's old guard has definitely defi-nitely passed. Taylor, Braid and Vardon, who won 10 British Open championships between be-tween them and are now behind GO summers, have been pulled back Into the field by age. It was more than "0 years ago' when Vardon won his first British Open. Braid and Taylor won soon alter. For nearly 20 years they dominated golf. Vardon made three attempts to win the United States Open. He succeeded in' 1000 when Tavlor finished second, one stroke behind him. Twenty years later Vardon had the title in his grasp when a wind storm came along and wrecked his chances on the last nine. In his three tries at the United States Open he never finished lower than second. Vardon won seven national Open championships. Bobby Jones has won four, here and abroad. But Jones still has a few decades of competition left in his system. |