TROON, Scotland — The wind shifted, the rain fell, the temperatures dropped and the best golfers in the world—or at least a good number of them—were left to navigate their way around a tricky course rather than blast their way through it.
Perhaps that is a bit simplistic take on the first round of the British Open at Royal Troon, where mostly benign weather was replaced by a far more blustery chill Thursday and a tricky wind that came from a different direction than all had practiced in the days leading up to the tournament.
