Golf: Oldcorn Responds to Denial of Open Start with Play-Off Ticket

Birmingham Post › July 12, 2004

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Andrew Oldcorn, furious at being denied entry to the Open by a change of rules, last night secured his place via a play-off in final qualifying.

Oldcorn and fellow European Tour professional Sven Struver birdied the first hole of a five-man sudden death play-off to qualify for the 133rd Open at Royal Troon.

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Golf: Oldcorn Responds to Denial of Open Start with Play-Off Ticket

The 44-year-old Oldcorn holed from five feet after rounds of 66 and 73 at Irvine left him tied with Germany's Struver and the English trio of Ian Spencer, David James and Micha...

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