The championship is at Turnberry, a resort and course owned by American businessman Donald Trump, who will attend the first round Thursday. “I told him I didn’t like the tone of his statement and since then I have been proven to be right on illegal immigration in the United States and I am No 1 in just about every poll”.
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In the meantime, it seemed everyone was in lockdown on Trump as there’s no appetite to bite the hand that feeds them, but Lizette Salas, the US Solheim Cup player of Mexican descent, bravely fronted up. Trump even dared the event to be moved. “Without him, I wouldn’t be here”.
“I kept playing good today”, said Kim, who donned earmuffs to combat the early morning chill. The reporter reiterated the question as: “Why have you come here, Mr. Trump?” But his remarks will not go unnoticed in St Andrews, Ponte Vedra and Daytona Beach, which was undoubtedly his intention. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican Presidential nomination, lives firmly by the mantra of no such thing as bad publicity, which is not the case in this instance.
The mogul answered that he was in Scotland, as reported by NBC, “because I love Turnberry and we’re doing a lot of work on Turnberry and we have the British Open, the Women’s British Open, here”. The 20-year-old from the town of Kangwon-do made five birdies and an eagle on the par-five 14th, not once dropping a shot on the 6,410-yard layout.
“You know, my goal is to hopefully have one major in my career but It doesn’t need to be now”, said this extremely level-headed young woman who had benefitted from a links tune-up in the Scottish Open at Dundonald last weekend. He was responsible for getting his daughter into golf at age 7 and he will be cheering her on at Turnberry this week.
Ko has acclimatised to links golf.
Hall finished tied 33rd at the Scottish Open at Troon on Sunday before shooting a four-under-par 70 at Irvine to guarantee a spot at the British Open.
“I’ve had a good practice over the last few days so I’m excited”.
The New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko says she got most parts of her game going well as she started the British Open in style. So it was a great way to prepare for this event.
Korea’s Hyo Joo Kim was just 19 when she burst on to the scene with major victory in the Evian Championship last year and she signalled her intent yesterday with a seven-under 65 that thrust her to the head of the field.
“Hit the ball pretty solid”.
England’s Florentyna Parker is one of nine players three shots off the pace on four under, while world number one Inbee Park is a further shot back after a three under 69.
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If only everyone at Turnberry could have displayed the same brevity.
