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Woods has claimed two of his three Open Championships at his favourite venue St Andrews. "I love the fact it takes imagination to win there," Woods said. "Look at the past champions at St Andrews: they all had great imagination and great ball control." That final point is verified by Euan Grant, currently course manager at Turnberry but head greenkeeper at St Andrew's in 2000: "Tiger hit towering approaches that landed softly on the big greens. Others were hitting lower shots that ricocheted in all directions off the humps and hollows." All of that is impressive but there remains the great imponderable: what state is his head in? He has lost his coach, appears set to lose his wife and seemed keen to lose his caddie after the US Open; will he have also lost his St Andrews Mojo? As usual he travelled to Ireland in preparation for this week, but he then flew home to see his children. The press jumped on this fact and Tiger's week in Scotland might get messy.