In 2017, the last time the Open Championship was at Royal Birkdale, the back-nine drama belonged to Jordan Spieth with a now-infamous sequence on the 13th hole that sparked his run to the claret jug. In 2026, the chaos came for Scottie Scheffler instead.
Australian Cameron John can hardly believe he’s set to feature in the shake-up to a major championship for the first time after another fine round at Birkdale.
Australian Lucas Herbert has paid the price for a poor finish to ‘moving day’ as American Sam Burns took the reins going into the British Open last round.
Before anything else, I would like to say three positive things: 1. The children love Bryson. In the time I spent following Bryson DeChambeau in his third round at the Open, just one child was guilty of punk-ish predilections, and I only heard about the kid secondhand – apparently, the precocious little snot-nosed guttersnipe shouted Read more…
A day after the R&A issued a two-stroke penalty to Bryson DeChambeau at the Open Championship for inadvertently improving the area of his swing path for his second shot on the fifth hole during the second round, R&A CEO Mark Darbon shed a little more light on how the penalty came to be in an interview with BBC Radio.
Bendigo golfer Lucas Herbert leads the British Open after a second-round 62 at Royal Birkdale that equalled the lowest round in major championship annals.
The claret jug, the coveted prize presented to the winner of the British Open, has seen quite a bit of the world—and probably parts of it many folks might not want to see.
A putting grip change and a heavy dose of grit have Min Woo Lee within touch of the leaders after Round 1 at Royal Birkdale, finishing level par alongside Cameron John, Lucas Herbert and Kazuma Kobori.
The seven-strong Aussie contingent at the British Open have failed to really hit top stride, none managing to break par at Birkdale as 38 other players did.
In his first-ever Open Championship start, Jackson Suber fired a 5-under 65 to take the outright lead at Royal Birkdale, edging Sungjae Im and Dan Brown by a shot.
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