ELEMENTARY, WATSON WINS OVER-50s
OPEN AT MUIRFIELD

Tom Watson, winner of five Open championships, returned to Muirfield, the scene of his third one - in 1980 -- to regain the Senior British Open title he last held at Royal Aberdeen two years ago.
One of the most popular players on the world golf scene, Watson had a double bogey 6 at the last hole on his way to chalking up his third Senior British Open victory in the past five years.
It was his fifth senior major triumph. Seven of his eight major wins either side of 50 have been achieved on Scottish links.
Watson shot rounds of 70, 71, 70 and 73 for a level par total of 284 over arguably the toughest course yet set for the over-50s major in this country. The Muirfield course was 7,034 yards long and the rough was exceptionally long as well.
Watson won by one stroke from Stewart Ginn (Australia) and Mark O'Meara (US).
In all there were sixth Americans in the top eight finishers.
Watson made up for his back nine collapse at the US Senior Open at Whistling Straits three weeks ago where he blew a three-shot lead after 10 holes of the final round to finish fourth.
Making his debut tournament as a senior, Nick Faldo finished joint 14th, having peaked too early and tieing for the leading after the opening round.
ALL THE FINAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4 x 71).
Players from US unless stated.
284 Tom Watson 70 71 70 73
285 Mark O'Meara 72 71 70 72, Stewart Ginn (Aus) 71 70 69 75,.
288 Loren Roberts 74 72 71 71, Eduardo Romero (Arg) 70 71 73 74, Jay Haas 70 75 73 70, Lonnie Nielsen 69 74 74 71
289 John Ross 71 72 74 72
290 Donnie Hammond 73 71 71 75
291 Sam Torrance (Sco) 69 75 71 76, Gordon J Brand (Eng) 68 73 74 76, Des Smyth (Irl) 70 70 77 74, Tom Kite 70 76 74 71
292 Nick Faldo (Eng) 68 74 75 75, Kiyoshi Murota (Jpn) 71 71 81 69
293 Denis Watson 69 74 73 77, Jerry Pate 73 73 72 75, Tom McKnight 72 77 72 72
294 D A Weibring 72 72 74 76, Jean-Pierre Sallat (Fra) 73 77 73 71, Hugh Baiocchi (Rsa) 73 78 76 67, Tim Simpson 71 75 75 73
295 Kirk Hanefeld 72 72 76 75, James Mason 77 71 74 73, Katsuyoshi Tomori (Jpn) 71 75 72 77, Scott Hoch 69 75 78 73, Bobby Lincoln (Rsa) 72 74 77 72, John Bland (Rsa) 71 74 73 77, Tsukasa Watanabe (Jpn) 71 77 71 76
296 Brad Bryant 72 71 78 75, Tim Conley 72 75 78 71, Ben Crenshaw 70 76 74 76, Morris Hatalsky 69 73 73 81
297 Bruce Vaughan 74 76 75 72, Bob Charles (Nzl) 71 77 74 75, Scott Simpson 76 72 77 72, Mark McNulty (Irl) 70 76 80 71
298 Gil Morgan 72 76 74 76, Giuseppe Cali (Ita) 72 76 75 75, Tommy Nakajima (Jpn) 71 80 75 72, Joe Ozaki (Jpn) 74 74 76 74, Kenny Knox 70 79 80 69, Vicente Fernandez (Arg) 75 76 73 74, Rod Spittle 72 74 76 76, Simon Owen (Aus) 70 75 74 79, John Harris 70 80 74 74, Dave Stockton 68 76 72 82
299 Dick Mast 71 80 76 72, Pete Oakley 74 75 78 72, Jon Chaffee 73 77 72 77
300 John Benda 74 71 78 77, Guillermo Encina (Chi) 70 79 74 77
Bob Gilder 70 80 76 74
301 Mike McCullough 74 73 77 77, David Edwards 74 75 76 76, Costantino Rocca (Ita) 73 77 74 77, Tom Purtzer 74 77 77 73, Graham Marsh (Aus) 71 71 76 83, Denis O'Sullivan (Irl) 75 76 75 75, Massy Kuramoto (Jpn) 73 78 75 75
302 John Chillas (Gb) 72 77 76 77, Adan Sowa (Arg) 73 77 78 74, Mark James (Eng) 72 75 76 79
303 Bob Larratt (Eng) 74 73 75 81, Bob Cameron (Eng) 75 74 79 75, Jose Rivero (Spa) 78 73 79 73, Manuel Pinero (Spa) 73 75 77 78
304 Jim Rhodes (Eng) 77 73 77 77, Bill Longmuir (Sco) 71 80 80 73
305 Andrew Murray (Eng) 72 78 77 78, Chip Beck 71 78 79 77
306 Bruce Heuchan 69 78 81 78
308 Craig Stadler 76 75 81 76, Eamonn Darcy (Irl) 77 74 79 78
309 Gery Watine (Fra) 76 74 79 80
310 Gary Player (Rsa) 72 76 79 83