ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — A lot of crazy things happen in the British Open.
Jean van de Velde quickly comes to mind. It's just the way things are with the oldest championship in golf, a culture shock for many on and off the course.
Players have plenty with which to contend when they head to the Open Championship — from finding good places to eat to packing clothes for all four seasons to adjusting their games to succeed on rumpled, windswept ground. They know about haggis and the Hell Bunker and the Road Hole at the Old Course, the Home of Golf and the home to the 144th British Open.