“I’d like to be one of those people to have that happen”.
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“It hasn’t come up in my head while I’ve been playing yet, if I have a chance coming down the stretch, if it creeps in, I’ll embrace it. I’ll embrace the opportunity that presents itself”, Spieth said of grand slam thoughts. No amateur has led the Open after three rounds since 1927. Oosthuizen (“oo-west-HIGH-zin”) doesn’t own the most glamorous or easiest-to-pronounce name in the game, but he has the chops – and putter – to excel at major championship golf.
Lefty was moving up the leaderboard Monday in the British Open with a string of birdies that got him to 10-under, just 2 shots off the lead.
Several players took a run at Johnson’s score before he got on the Old Course. “I just couldn’t hole the putts”.
Three putts later, Johnson had his second bogey of the week. Leishman badly missed his birdie putt that would have won it, while Oosthuizen hit a flawless wedge to 5 feet for birdie and a 69 to join the playoff. Nothing about his game particularly was sharp after that. He found pot bunkers off the tee on 12 and also 16, and ended up in the Road Hole bunker as well.
He still thinks he can make it three in a row. Tied for the third-round lead with Ricky Barnes, Piercy birdied three of four holes starting on No. 13 and finished at 19 under on Grand National’s Lake Course. Spieth is one shot off the lead heading into the final round. He couldn’t summon any of the brilliance he displayed over the first two days, finishing with three sloppy bogeys, and when it was over, he could only shrug.
“He made me so nervous on my second shot because I was going a completely different route, low, running, and I tugged it a little bit to the left. There’s nothing you can really do about that”. Mostly, he said, he’d be trying to make contact with the golf ball off the first tee, though he looked nerveless Sunday. The PGA Championship is next month at Whistling Strait. Whatever the truth is, it clear Johnson has been dealing with an enormous amount of personal baggage, and you have to commend him on some level for getting control of his life. That was Jim Simons in the 1971 U.S. Open at Merion. There are more important things in life than trophies, after all.
Piercy began the season on a major medical extension after surgery on his right arm previous year.
This will be his toughest challenge. But you would be hard-pressed to understand what their strengths are by watching them interact when they’re on the course.
The pair safely negotiated the next before play was halted. The two nearly never have debates about club selection.
This could only happen to Phil Mickelson. I’ve watched those videos over and over again.
“I’d like to have a chance to do something nobody has ever done”.
Just not for Woods. “He’s just playing phenomenal golf”. Would Johnson have closed out Chambers Bay if he had LaCava, or someone like him, on his bag? Not after the way he staggered to a 3-over 75 Sunday while most of the top contenders were ripping up the Old Course, taking advantage of the soft greens and slight breezes. But he also seemed resigned to the reality that he’d likely let yet another major slip from his grasp. Instead, he three-putted and lost to Jordan Spieth by a single stroke. He strolled in the direction of his courtesy auto, rain already dripping from his cap.
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“Walking off of nine green was as frustrated as I’ve been in a tournament other than off of 14 yesterday morning”, he said.
