With the additional strength and stamina he has acquired on his travels Locke is regarded as 7-1 shot for the British Open. For no other golfer are the odds likely to be so short. Locke himself thinks they are ridiculous. "The British Open is so hard to win" he declared soon after he landed, "that no player ever born should be less than 10 or 12 to one.
Bobby wasted no time in getting down to practice. Almost before he had got his land legs he went round the Caterham course twice in 66, establishing a record there. Bogey for the course is 72.
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