CARNOUSTIE, Scotland -- Zach Johnson strolled through past the stately hotel on the Carnoustie Golf Links grounds on Monday afternoon with his head down and eyes covered by dark sunglasses, drawing nary a glance, a rarity for the reigning Masters champion.
But the real reason nobody noticed him was because he blended in like a tourist. He had a baseball cap on backward, and was dressed in khaki cargo shorts and tennis shoes. He had reason for dressing so incognito.
The same reason he didn't look particularly happy, as it turned out.
"Don't have a choice," he said.
Johnson was one of at least six American-based players in the field this week at the British Open whose luggage was lost in transit crossing the Atlantic Ocean. That would include their clubs, too.
Unless the offending airlines can fast reconcile the problem, this could get ugly, a term that essentially describes the blue jeans worn Monday by rising American standout Lucas Glover. Like Johnson, Glover wasn't sure of the whereabouts of his gear and was not wearing his standard PGA Tour-quality attire. Worse, he could not play a practice round, either, and the week is fast disappearing.
"How we doing?" Glover said sarcastically.
Glover said that on his flight from the States, he was one of four professionals whose clubs did not arrive Monday. Tour veterans Carl Pettersson and Pat Perez were on the same airline, Glover said.
Justin Leonard, who won the 1997 British Open title, is also awaiting the arrival of his clubs.
