We look back at the remarkable life of Barclay Howard, an amateur golfer who won the silver medal at The Open at Royal Troon 19 years ago. Tremaine Edmunds Jersey . In finishing as the top amateur in 1997, Howard him became the oldest player to achieve the feat in half a century and it was made all the more special as it came towards the end of an incredible journey.Howards talent had never been in doubt and as a 15-year-old he won the county boys championship by 14 strokes and picked up almost 100 amateur titles playing out of Cochrane Castle Golf Club - just half an hours drive from Troon. He worked in a factory on a production line, said childhood friend and Sky Sports presenter David Livingstone. He was like one of these comic book heroes who did his job and then went to play with the rich boys on the weekend and competed against them. I think people saw him as one of them.However, struggles with an alcohol problem saw Howard banned from every pub in town and thrown out of Cochrane Castle for bad behaviour.After quitting drinking at the age of 38, Howard gave golf his full attention and the results were outstanding as he twice made the Walker Cup team and also enjoyed a magnificent week at Royal Troon in The Open.Not long after the Walker Cup in 1997, Howard was diagnosed with leukaemia and eventually died of pneumonia in 2008. He is though still revered at Cochrane Castle and remembered fondly at Royal Troon. Also See: Sign in to watch Leaderboard The eagles have landed Donaldson in the thick of it Taron Johnson Bills Jersey . The goals took Liverpools tally in the Premier League this season to 70, overtaking Manchester City as the top scorers, and left the fourth-place team just four points behind league leader Chelsea. 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There are Deflatriots bumper stickers, Deflaters Gonna Deflate T-shirts and even Deflategate cookies shaped like saggy little footballs with icing laces.Much ado about nothing, said David Schultz, who works in IT in Boston.I think its ridiculous. Its like theyre going after Brady and Belichick, said David Ellis, a civil engineer from Falmouth.Patriots fans are used to playing defence.Theyre still fending off criticism of Spygate — revelations that New England videotaped the New York Jets signals during a 2007 game. Coach Bill Belichick was fined $500,000, and the team was fined $250,000 and stripped of its 2008 first-round draft choice by the league.For several years, the Patriots have been the team the rest of America loves to hate, in part because of their success. Eight Super Bowl berths and three NFL titles (the last in 2004) will do that to a team.Quarterback Tom Bradys good looks and supermodel wife probably dont help. Nor does Belichicks trademark scowl, worn on and off the field, with or without the hoodie. Those who revile New England accuse it of hypocrissy for using underinflated balls while preaching the Patriot way — Belichicks insistence that his players avoid trash talk and do their jobs. Phillip Gaines Bills Jersey. .Little wonder, then, that social media would blow up over Deflategate, which was trending Thursday on Twitter. Or that Pats fans would laugh off that and other hashtags, which have included Belicheat, Ballghazi and Hate-riots.Nick Stevens, a popular online Boston sports commentator whose alter ego is Fitzy, has a simple if crude response to anyone who suggests the Patriots gained an unfair advantage over the Colts and cheated their way to Glendale, Arizona:Deflate this.We ignore the noise, embrace the hate. Its the coal that fires our engines, he says in a mock Patriots news conference circulating on YouTube.Its not just New England fans who are having a little fun at the teams expense. Krispy Kreme tweeted an ad showing a football-shaped doughnut with the line: Ours are fully filled.Etsy stores sprang up overnight, hawking shirts with slogans such as They hate us cause they aint us, a reference to a line James Franco uses in his latest movie with Seth Rogen, The Interview.Critics insist the Patriots legacy will be forever tarnished no matter the outcome on Feb. 1. But faithful fans like Luis Mariano arent buying that.Right now its the Patriots vs the world, he said. 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