[Photo: Ross Flannigan/Australian Golf Digest] Adam Scott and Cameron Smith played a practice on a balmy Tuesday evening at Royal Troon. The two Queenslanders might be 14 years apart in age, but they’re both chasing the same thing: major championship win No.2. And both hope it comes at this week’s 152nd Open Championship. Fresh off Read more…
A year after watching the Open Championship from his couch with chemo in his system for a leukaemia diagnosis, Michael Hendry, offered a medical exemption by the R&A, was emotional teeing up with three fellow New Zealanders in a practice round at Royal Troon.
Another major week is upon us and that means Golf Channel crash-test dummy Johnson Wagner is zipping up the fire suit, taking out a second life insurance policy and getting ready to step into the breach once again.
The question was bound to be asked of Tiger Woods at his Tuesday press conference ahead of the British Open. And his response was a predictable mix of sarcasm, cheekiness and clap-back.
Players at the Open will be competing in threesomes on Thursday and Friday at Troon. Official tee times have not been announced so we are simply listing all the players in the field here.
With a stunning 10-shot turnaround, Marc Leishman launched up the LIV Golf Andalucia leaderboard with a stunning second round on Saturday – providing a ray of hope of reeling in runaway leader Anirban Lahiri.
To put the absurdly confounding difficulty of the relatively microscopic 8th hole at Royal Troon in perspective, consider this: The average proximity to the hole on the PGA Tour for a shot played at a similar distance to the 8th’s 123 yards is just a shade over 20 feet. Whether the pin is set in the front, middle or back on the hole’s relatively wee putting surface, such a miss could very well not be on the green.
Cameron Smith has shown plenty of fightback during a hot and windy first round at LIV Golf Andalucia after a sloppy start at the famed Valderrama course in Spain.
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