British (or come to think of it European) players very rarely win The Open. I was wondering if it had anything to do with the lack of links championships on the regular European Tour?? Do you think that if the Scottish Open (for example) was played at a true links course every year that the Europeans would at least become a little bit familiar with how to play a links course and thus would have a better chance of winning the Big One. It seems to me that so little links golf is played throughout the year - except for a few rainy rounds of St Andrews in October - that The Open turns into a bit of a lottery and that's why we get these "strange" winners?? Augusta is Augusta but the US Open and the US PGA both use the same styles of courses that the Americans play week in week out - albeit set up a little bit harder. No wonder the Europeans find it hard to break through out there. Perhaps we should make it harder for everyone else to come over and win our major by at least giving our players a feel for the courses - also it would mean that fantastic courses like Troon would get an outing more than once every 6 years or whatever it is. Anyone know why so little links golf is played on tour???? Thoughts?