Australia has three strong chances of another Major victory with Hannah Green, Minjee Lee and Stephanie Kyriacou are all inside the top 10 heading into the weekend of the AIG Women’s Open at Muirfield.
On Sunday evening the winner of the year’s final Major championship will be paid $US1,095,000, which is $225,000 more than Anna Nordqvist earned for winning at Carnoustie 12 months ago.
It took 275 years and two votes for the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers to let in female members – and set up one of the more anticipated weeks in women’s golf.
It was an epic save. And thanks to video captured by someone behind the green, golf fans can get a different look at it – one that somehow might even make the improbable par even more impressive.
Noted fisherman Cameron Smith reeled in Rory McIlroy for the biggest catch of his life, delivering a final round for the ages with a 64 at the Old Course. There is so, so much to discuss. Here are 18 parting thoughts from the 150th Open.
The forecast means the Open Championship weekend rounds are likely to be warmer than Saturday and Sunday were at Southern Hills for the PGA Championship in Oklahoma.
The R&A’s not-so-subtle stiff-arming of the defectors – there are 23 players in the field who have either played in a LIV event or committed to doing so in the future – began before the week even started.
When the 150th Open Championship begins at St Andrews on Thursday, there will be 11 Australians taking part. A century ago there was only one, and if not for one dramatic collapse he would have been Australia’s first Open champion.
The first groups of golfers have been revealed for The R&A Celebration of Champions but Australian legend Greg Norman won’t be one of them after the R&A confirmed it told the LIV Golf commissioner he won’t be welcome at the 150th Open festivities.
The task at St Andrews Opens is to provoke the best players in the world into displaying their peerless talents to the most evocative extent – no matter the winning score.
The victory earns him starts in the 150th Open at St Andrews next month and the 2023 US Open at Los Angeles Country Club, and a likely invitation to the 2023 Masters.
Australian Golf Digest
