Runaway second round leader Brian Harman gave his pursuers brief hope that he might come back to the pack when making bogeys at two of the first four holes on Saturday afternoon, but the left-handed American soon regained his composure and reeled off four birdies over the next 14 holes to maintain his five-shot lead going into Sunday’s final round at the 151st Open at Royal Liverpool. Just when it looked like the pressure of leading the season’s final major […]
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Brian Harman will take the joint-biggest half-way lead at The Open for 89 years into the weekend after the American shot a course record 65 at Royal Liverpool to seize control of The 151st Open.
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With over 250,000 fans set to descend on the Wirral this week as the 151st Open Championship roles into Royal Liverpool Golf Club, the stage is set for a grandstand finish to golf’s major season. But who will be left holding the Claret Jug once the dust has settled? Nick Bayly examines the likely lads to enjoy their moment. After hosting one of the most visited Open Championships in history in 2014, the people of West Wirral are once again […]
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Tiger Woods arrived at Hoylake in the long, hot summer of 2006 on the back of chalking up his first ever missed cut in a major after shooting back-to-back 76s in the US Open. That hurt a man who back then, aged 31, felt that every major golf championship was his to lose – a belief that was drilled into him from boyhood by his father, Earl, who had passed away just two months earlier. Determined to put his lacklustre […]
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The 151st Open is to played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club (Hoylake) from July 14-17, 2022. The occasion will mark the 13th time that The Open has been played over the famous Merseyside links, where many of the greatest names in the sport have lifted the iconic Claret Jug. The Open was last played at Hoylake in 2014, when Rory McIlroy completed a wire-to-wire victory to become the third golfer from Northern Ireland, after Fred Daly (Holyoke, 1947) and Darren Clarke (Royal […]
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