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Tom Watson admitted that defeat was a bitter pill to swallow after coming so close to becoming the oldest player at 59 years of age to win a major golf championship. The American legend needed to merely par the 18th hole at Turnberry to claim his sixth British Open title and ninth major of his incredible career.
Stewart Cink claimed the British Open title with an emphatic playoff victory over 59-year-old fellow American Tom Watson who was bidding to become the oldest man to win a major golf title. Watson had missed an eight-foot par putt on the final hole of regulation play to see his hopes of winning the Claret Jug for the sixth time cruelly dashed.