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Dawson, a 52-year-old Champions Tour golfer, qualified for Royal Troon by winning the Senior British Open last year.
Day, 28, is world number one and has won seven times in the past 12 months, including the 2015 US PGA Championship. Dustin Johnson is happy to have shed the major-less tag.
It was good enough to bring him his first major.
I’m afraid, at this point, I’ve utterly convinced myself that Colt Knost is winning the Open!
OPEN champion Dustin Johnson, THE MASTERS champion Danny Willet, and world #1-ranked player Jason Day.
” That being said, I felt for me it was going to be a great experience and possibly once in a lifetime”.
“Ever since the first time I came over I just liked it”.
The last six British Opens held at Royal Troon have been won by Americans and Dustin Johnson, the hottest player in golf, looks like he has all the credentials to send the United States into seventh heaven this week.
“Hopefully that is the struggles out of the way for that hole”, he added.
“The Claret Jug is something I’ve held in my hands”, said Spieth, who was on the plane back home from St. Andrews past year with Zach Johnson, who won the Open.
Slumbers declined to take credit for Troon’s recent vote to admit women, although the vote came early in July, less than two months after Muirfield, another traditional Open venue, voted against letting in women – leading the R&A to drop Muirfield as a future Open host.
Spieth’s stock has risen sharply in the a year ago after he won the Masters and U.S. Open and made a spirited run at the Grand Slam.
Five major chances have come and gone since, and he missed out on a sixth at St Andrews previous year due to the ankle ligament injury he picked up on a football field. I crave to have that trophy in my possession at some point. I did a lot of that on Saturday and Sunday. “Obviously I’m playing very well right now”.
Sweden’s Henrik Stenson sees little significance in precedent or nationality when seeking a potential victor, though he does make the point that he plays a lot of his golf in the US, so maybe the portents for him could be taken as good. The process of getting into contention I am a little more hesitant with. “I could use HGH and get away with it”. I’m a huge believer in playing for your country.
“Everybody’s entitled to their own opinion”, Spieth said. “It just doesn’t feel quite the same to me”.
“I’d give anything to spend half an hour with Spieth”.
Rory McIlroy, who was unable to defend his title in 2015 due to injury, has finished third, fourth and first in three of his last four events, but missed the cut in the other at Oakmont and has not won a major since lifting the Claret Jug at Hoylake.
“I know I’ve done it, played well and competed and won against the best guys”, said Willett, who tied for 37th place at the US Open in June. “T he rest is going to be about ‘Can you go out and do it?’ I feel ready and excited”. The objective on that one is to keep it just short of the greenside bunkers.
He says the Open is scheduled for Royal Birkdale next year, Carnoustie in 2018 and Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland in 2019. He played them in even par to win by three.
The Open, the world’s oldest professional golf tournament, is one of nine golf events being hosted in Scotland this year. “If you didn’t get nervous, then something’s wrong because then it doesn’t mean anything to you”, he insisted.
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Todd Hamilton has returned to Royal Troon for the first time since 2004 after deliberately staying away to preserve the memories of his shock Open victory.
