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Making his Senior British Open debut is another former major winner Fred Couples, who plays the first two rounds alongside fellow American Mark Calcavecchia, Open champion at Royal Troon in 1989, and England's Barry Lane, twice a winner on the European Senior Tour last year when finishing second in the money list to Peter Fowler of Australia.
"Turnberry is a beautiful place and I can't wait to get started in my first British Senior Open tomorrow," Couples said. "I feel like I will be one of the guys up there this week, but you have to play really good golf. You can't screw around and miss shots or you'll be bogeying a lot of holes."
Calcavecchia, who finished in a share of ninth in the British Open at Royal Lytham last weekend, was also happy to be back.
"It's a beautiful course, a great course," he said. "I played pretty well in the two Opens I played here in '94 and 2009, so I've been looking forward to this for quite a while."
Other American major winners in the field include 2010 Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin, Tom Lehman, Larry Mize, Tim Kite and Craig Stadler as well as Bernhard Langer, a prolific winner of titles around the world.
Throw into the mix British former major winners Sandy Lyle, Ian Woosnam and Tony Jacklin, and Turnberry should provide plenty of exciting play in the next four days.
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