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MICKELSON BRINGS TROON TO ITS KNEES WITH STUNNING 63

Phil Mickelson made one of his trademark charges up the leaderboard at the Open Championship on Thursday, grabbing the first-day lead and a share of the record for the best score in a major championship. Aided by birdies on 10, 14, 16 and 17 on Royal Troon’s tricky back nine, the 46-year-old American posted an eigth-under par 63, equalling the record low score for majors first set by Johnny Miller in the 1973 US Open, and equalled by only handful of […] The post MICKELSON BRINGS TROON TO ITS KNEES WITH STUNNING 63 appeared first on Golf News.

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LANG WINS US WOMEN’S OPEN AFTER NORDQVIST SUFFERS LATE PENALTY

Yet another major championship has ended in an unfortunate rules controversy after Sweden’s Anna Nordqvist was given a belated two-stroke penalty for touching the sand in a bunker during a three-hole play-off for the US Women’s Open. The penalty was only handed out to Nordqvist on the 18th hole, after USGA officials reviewed TV footage of an incident in a fairway bunker on the second play-off hole, where her club was deemed to have grazed the sand as she prepared to […] The post LANG WINS US WOMEN’S OPEN AFTER NORDQVIST SUFFERS LATE PENALTY appeared first on Golf News.

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