It is the speed and the clarity with which we respond and I think it’s a function of us sitting here, just about 50 yards away, being able to respond and provide instructions back to the referees.
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DUSTIN JOHNSON: Yeah, it’s definitely something I’d like to get to.
The hole got its name when two-time Open champion Willie Park Jr., writing in “Golf Illustrated” sometime after the turn of the last century, described it as a “pitching surface skimmed down to the size of a postage stamp”. “I always feel like I’m the best player in the world, but that’s just me”. I’ve received a lot from the game of golf.
“I was out in the second-last group in the third round previous year and played with Paul Lawrie there, and we had great support with massive crowds following us, and it’s nice to know you are capable of getting yourself into that situation”.
“I always expect to come out and perform and to contend”, he said. It has no difference in whether you’re playing here or in the U.S. I mean, one of the big things is you’ve got to putt it well. At that moment even he will surely start feeling some tension, not that he sees that as a problem. “I’ve got four major championships, and I’d love to add to that tally – just as those guys would love to add to their one or two majors that they have and just keep going”.
“I think you’ve seen, with the amount of top professionals that have decided not to go this time, where it stands in our minds and maybe it would have been best served with amateurs going to play”.
TROON, Scotland (AP) – On the Royal Troon links where his father once served as the club secretary, Colin Montgomerie got the British Open started on Thursday morning by hitting the opening tee shot. The organisers believe the first Open not live on the BBC for decades will prove successful, as the R&A “take control” of the TV pictures through new broadcasters Sky and NBC and put their brand on it as the USGA do with the US Open and Augusta do with the Masters.
It has been played here eight times, with the last six winners all American, most recently the unheralded Todd Hamilton in 2004. I’m not trying to win the first one. “Even though it’s only 115, 120 yards, you just have to not be that aggressive….”
“If you take four threes there this week, you’re probably going to gain a bit of ground on the field”. That may well be an advantage when he tees off two days from now. He has four straight Top Five finishes, which is very encouraging. McIlroy followed him into the room and blasted golf officials who for the last seven years have preached the Olympics as an opportunity to grow the game.
“It is the speed and the clarity with which we respond, which is something we are very focused on”, Slumbers said.
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“Everyone goes through peaks and valleys”. Although he hasn’t won, he’s finished in the Top 10 every year since 2012. He lifted two out, only to have the ball not clear the slope and roll back in. He tied for fourth at Chambers Bay on Puget Sound in 2015, famously crushing his drive out of bounds on the 16th hole in the final round to give way to Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson.
