British Open Championship

There is nothing normal about the British Open Championship.Weather hits the United Kingdom that would make sane people take cover, but at the Open, not only do you play through it, you embrace it.Phil Mickelson, who skipped a family trip to the Vatican to play in the Scottish Open last week, said the word "hope" seven times in his Friday interview alone. He was hoping for bad weather, not just last week, but for this one as well.(Forecasts say his hopes will be answered.)Biblical ramifications aside of a man passing on seeing the Pope's house in favor of plague-like conditions, Mickelson wanted the worse conditions because he sort of -- not in a sadistic way, but more for the creativity of it -- looks forward to the challenge.If you can avoid the raindrops, chances are you can't avoid the wind. A common image from British Opens past are flagsticks bent at the center in the pressure of the wind.But again, some people dig conditions like that."It's the only tournament besides the sandbe...

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