Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the July 11 issue of Golfweek.
Jean Van de Velde’s return to Carnoustie for the Senior British Open this month gives writers the potential to wax lyrical. The Frenchman turned 50 on May 29 and will make his European senior debut at the Scottish course with which he is inextricably linked.
Rough drafts of stories about fate playing its hand in delivering to Van de Velde the senior version of the British Open title that he tossed into the Barry Burn 17 years ago are burning in more than one golf writer’s mind.