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Golfer Tiger Woods became the youngest player ever to win all four major golf championships today with his victory at the British Open in St. Andrews, Scotland. NPR's Tom Goldman speaks with guest host David Wright about this week's match and Tiger's future.

Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts and Kevin Phillips about political events of the week. The Republican National Convention begins next week in Philadelphia and George W. Bush has not announced a running mate.

Marianne McCune of member station WNYC reports that a new committee appointed to decide the future of Ellis Island is pushing to transform several crumbling buildings on the south side of the island into a center for tourists, scholars and world leaders.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the aging Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Washington, D.C. It's just one of the thousands of bridges considered obsolete in the U.S. The Federal Highway Administration is citing structural problems and the strain of increased use as its reasons for replacing the Wilson Bridge and others like it on schedule.

Host Bob Edwards talks to John Feinstein about the British Open. Tiger Woods won and became the youngest person to win golf's Grand Slam.

Commentator Marit Haahr is a little unnerved by the growth of dot-com companies that provide service to your doorstep, like Kozmo.com. She says it's spontaneous human contact, as in video stores, that keeps us all from becoming shut-ins.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the new movie, X-Men.

Scott speaks with Brazilian author Paulo Coehlo, author of the bestseller, The Alchemist, about his new book, Veronika Decides to Die.

At the G-8 Summit in Okinawa today, leaders of the richest industrialized nations pledged to close the "digital divide" - the gap in access to technology between developed and developing countries. Demonstrators criticized the assembly for not acting more aggresively to provide debt relief for poor nations. President Clinton also spoke to U-S Marines stationed on the island. From Okinawa, NPR's Eric Weiner speaks with host David Wright about the President's message and what the G-8 meeting has accomplished.

Weekend Edition Sunday essayist Diane Roberts has recently been in London for her annual visit and she offers a primer on the intricacies of properly feeding her British friends.