[Photo: Ross Flannigan/Australian Golf Digest] Adam Scott and Cameron Smith played a practice on a balmy Tuesday evening at Royal Troon. The two Queenslanders might be 14 years apart in age, but they’re both chasing the same thing: major championship win No.2. And both hope it comes at this week’s 152nd Open Championship. Fresh off Read more…
A year after watching the Open Championship from his couch with chemo in his system for a leukaemia diagnosis, Michael Hendry, offered a medical exemption by the R&A, was emotional teeing up with three fellow New Zealanders in a practice round at Royal Troon.
The question was bound to be asked of Tiger Woods at his Tuesday press conference ahead of the British Open. And his response was a predictable mix of sarcasm, cheekiness and clap-back.
Players at the Open will be competing in threesomes on Thursday and Friday at Troon. Official tee times have not been announced so we are simply listing all the players in the field here.
To put the absurdly confounding difficulty of the relatively microscopic 8th hole at Royal Troon in perspective, consider this: The average proximity to the hole on the PGA Tour for a shot played at a similar distance to the 8th’s 123 yards is just a shade over 20 feet. Whether the pin is set in the front, middle or back on the hole’s relatively wee putting surface, such a miss could very well not be on the green.
There is room for debate as to whether the claret jug is the most iconic item awarded to a tournament winner in golf, a chorus of folks representing a sleepy town in Georgia likely arguing that a certain emerald blazer has an awful lot of cachet, too.
The claret jug, the coveted prize presented to the winner of the British Open, has seen quite a bit of the world—and probably parts of it many folks might not want to see.
Australian Golf Digest
