US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick will play with three-time Open winner Tiger Woods in the first two rounds of the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews, which gets under way on Thursday. Fitzpatrick won his first major at Brookline in June, while Woods missed the event to ensure he would be fit to play the Old Course this week. They will begin at 2.59pm in round one, with 2017 champion Jordan Spieth and Spain’s Jon Rahm in the next group. […]
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The uneasy relationship that exists between golf’s traditional power bases and the newly formed LIV Golf Series reared its head ahead of the 150th Open Championship with a statement from the R&A confirming that it had not invited LIV Golf chief executive Greg Norman to attend the Celebration of Champions or attend the Champions’ Dinner in order to avoid ‘an unwelcome distraction’ on the eve of the season’s final major. The Celebration of Champions, which is taking place on Monday, will […]
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The spiralling prize funds being offered for the world’s best golfers took another significant rise following the announcement that the winner of this year’s 150th Open Championship at St Andrews will pocket a cool £2.1m. That sum represents an increase of more than £300,000 on the £1.7m Collin Morikawa won in 2021, while the total purse for the game’s oldest major has risen by 22% from last year to a new record high of £11.2m. Martin Slumbers, chief executive of The R&A, […]
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Sixteen players from a starting field of 288 at four venues qualified for golf’s original championship through Final Qualifying, earning spots in the field for the historic occasion taking place at the home of golf from July 14-17. Prince’s In sunny, but windy conditions on the Kent coast, Matt Ford qualified for The Open to make his major championship debut after he led the qualifiers at Prince’s on a five-under-par total of 139. The 44-year-old from Maidstone started off with a steady […]
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An action-packed day of Regional Qualifying action on Monday saw 142 players book their places in next week’s Final Qualifying for The 150th Open. Terrific weather made for excellent conditions as 15 courses across Great Britain and Ireland welcomed a total starting field of over 1,800 golfers. Fifteen-year-old amateur Sean Keeling stole the show at County Louth, shooting a seven-under 65 in the final group of the day to head the list of qualifiers, while another standout performance came from […]
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