LONDON (Reuters) - Jean van de Velde, involved in an unforgettable finale to the 1999 British Open at Carnoustie, will not be granted a special invite when the major championship returns to the ...

STRAFFAN, Ireland, July 6 (Reuters) - Jean Van de Velde has decided not to play next week's Scottish Open and now has no chance of qualifying for the following week's British Open at Carnoustie. Van ...

Jean Van de Velde loses a three-stroke lead on the 72nd hole, then loses the crown to Paul Lawrie in a playoff. The cruelty of Carnoustie yielded to craziness at the end. The Scottish gallery sat in ...

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland | Jean Van de Velde would have preferred to be at Carnoustie this week, staring down his golfing demons in person. Instead, the guy who threw away the 1999 British Open is ...

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland - Jean Van de Velde would have preferred to be at Carnoustie this week, staring down his golfing demons in person. Instead, the guy who threw away the 1999 British Open is ...

Instead, the guy who threw away the 1999 British Open is tackling a much more frightening adversary: a mysterious ailment that has his doctors puzzled and Van de Velde fretting about whether he's got ...

You could almost forgive Jean Van De Velde for throwing away the opportunity to win the Claret Jug by slicing, blocking, and chunking his way to a triple-bogey seven on the 72nd hole of the 1999 ...