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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — One hundred twelve years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt delivered his famous “Citizenship in a Republic” speech in Paris, 750 miles southeast of Fife. The 1910 Open Championship was played at St. Andrews a few months later. The Masters wouldn’t be conceived for another quarter-century, but the 50th Open ended with James Braid winning the Claret Jug.
One hundred Opens later, the words Roosevelt spoke that April day in Paris still resonate, and the Open Championship is more illustrious than it’s ever been entering the tournament’s 150th playing.
The two are even intertwined. The R&A used words from Roosevelt’s most famous passage of that speech, commonly known as “The Man in the Arena,” in a promotional package it made for this historic Open at St. Andrews. Jordan Spieth narrated.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Few men have ever entered this particular arena. Fewer still have ever left it a champion.
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