For a place dripping with centuries of history, St. Andrews got more than it could have wanted Sunday.
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Jordan Spieth in action at the Open Cha, pionship on Sunday.
In contrast McDowell took two to escape from a shallow fairway bunker on the 14th and ran up a double bogey seven, before dropping another shot on the next. I still believe I can win this tournament. I played the worst round, and I don’t feel like I played that bad. I’m not sure you can say the same about anyone else on this list. “I want to win”.
“He’s a heavy favourite tomorrow, just being one shot back”, said Day who is yet to win a major championship despite a string of top-ten finishes.
Johnson had one birdie and bogeyed the final three holes en route to a 75 that left him five behind.
“The golf course wasn’t playing that hard”, Woods said.
Paul Dunne has turned the British Open into amateur hour.
“It’s surreal I’m leading The Open, but I can easily believe that I shot the three scores that I shot”, he said.
“The only thing they were able to go off was what the officials themselves saw when they were out there before we even got to the golf course”.
Asked about the incident on the 14th, where his ball was blown down a slope towards that of playing partner Spieth, Johnson added: “Fortunately it happened in kind of the end part of the second round, so we’ve still got a lot of golf to play, so it is what it is”.
Marc Leishman threatened the major championship record with his 64 today.
With the exception of midway leader Dustin Johnson, the competitors at the British Open pretty much had their way at St. Andrews in the third round of the British Open.
Jason Day is in the box seat to become the first Australian to win The Open since Greg Norman in 1993 after gaining a share of the overnight lead in St Andrews.
Spieth counted the cost of taking five three-putts in his round, but he insisted he was still in good shape to contend for a third consecutive major title. I’m doubtful, but it would take down Jordan Spieth as the golf story of the year.
When he returned, having caught up on some sleep, he bogeyed the par-4 17th but rebounded with a birdie on the last hole after matching big-hitting Johnson in driving the green.
Grand Slam in the making? His impressive U.S. Open performance, coupled with a victory here five years ago at the Old Course, make him impossible to ignore …
“Only one person has ever done it before”. “That opportunity very rarely comes around”. Those two moments were as frustrated as I’ve been.
Louis Oosthuizen knows how to conquer the Old Course in wind, sun and rain.
One day after raging wind off the Eden Estuary caused a 10-hour delay and forced a Monday finish, the flags were soaked from passing showers and limp from no wind.
That’s what made Dustin Johnson’s collapse so shocking.
The 22-year-old Irishman shot a 6-under 66 on Sunday and strolled to the clubhouse tied for the lead at St. Andrews. His only blemish came at the ninth were he missed a short four foot putt for par and made bogey.
Even with the enormity of the task before him, Spieth seems calm and collected, expressing a demeanor that is well beyond his young age.
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An amateur has not won the British Open since 1930, when Bobby Jones accomplished the feat.
