ST. ANDREWS, Scotland
Louis Oosthuizen stepped to the microphone stand, but no words came out. At the end of a numbingly long workday, Oosthuizen had no energy to talk over his playing competitor, Tiger Woods, who was conducting his postround post-mortem several feet away.
“I’m so tired,” Oosthuizen said Saturday night after finally finishing his second round at the British Open.
The son of a South African farmer, Oosthuizen gravitated to golf because he wished to escape the sunset-to-sundown work grind. Negotiating six holes over 12 hours was hard labor of a different sort, but Oosthuizen, 32, did not give up.