The rapid six-year gap between Opens is nothing like the wait from 1951 to 2019 and a further endorsement of the triumph of that staging two years ago.
Collin Morikawa is a multiple-Major winner, Jordan Spieth remains the best show in golf, and the Open Championship scratched a links-golf itch two years in the making.
While nothing is official, multiple reports in the UK and Ireland last weekend hinted that the R&A is leaning towards returning to Royal Portrush after the Northern Ireland course hosted most recently in 2019.
Only a few players per generation ever reach Major-count territory that early. Tiger was one. Jordan another. After conquering the game’s oldest test in his first go, Collin is there, too.
If you thought the story of the week at Royal St George’s, the first Open Championship in nearly two years, was going to be golf, then you know very little about golf.
Most are thrilled to have fans to play for and feed off of, but as Tyrrell Hatton found out on Friday, it’s significantly less fun when you’re an Englishman on the cut line trying to save bogey and some troll is running his mouth during your putting stroke
Marc Leishman did not putt well Friday at Royal St George’s. If certain reports are to be believed, his putter proceeded to break. His putting then improved. Such is golf.
Bryson DeChambeau has taken to Instagram to apologise for his post-round outburst at the Open Championship after he blamed his new Cobra driver for a wayward day on the links.
Bogey-free, the 38-year-old South African strolled round Royal St George’s in a nifty six-under par 64 to claim the early lead in the 149th Open Championship.
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