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The 2015 Emirates Australian Open was the first event in The Open Qualifying Series and three players (who finished in the top ten and ties who were not already exempt) earned places in The OPEN at Royal Troon from 14-17 July 2016.
The Australian trio of Matt Jones, Rod Pampling and Nick Cullen qualified for the 145TH OPEN in Sydney.
Jones qualified in style by winning the Emirates Australian Open, finishing on an eight-under-par total of 276 for the championship, one shot ahead of Adam Scott and Jordan Spieth, who are both exempt for The Open. Pampling finished a shot further back on six-under-par, three ahead of Cullen who tied on three-under-par with fellow Australian Lincoln Tighe but secured the qualifying place thanks to his higher position in the Official World Golf Ranking.
Sydney-born Jones, who is a member of The Australian Golf Club, which hosted the event will make his third consecutive appearance in The Open after finishing tied 30th at St Andrews this year.
“It’s one Major I would love to win, it’s one Major that I think suits my golf game the best,” said 35-year-old Jones. “I’m absolutely ecstatic to get back to The Open. I have played it the last two years and to be able to qualify this early on means I can schedule around it and get ready for it.
“I just love it over there, being in Europe playing golf is just fantastic. I can’t wait to get over there for The Open. Apart from winning this golf tournament, that was my next goal - to qualify for The Open. I want to play as many Majors as I can and to qualify for The Open already this year is fantastic. I am going to go over a week early this time and prepare.”
Pampling started the day at four-over-par and a bogey at the first did not augur well but from there the Queenslander birdied nine of the next 16 holes before holing a putt across the length of the green on the last for a dramatic eagle for a ten-under-par, course record 61 that took him into the qualifying places.
The 46-year-old will make his ninth appearance in The Open at Royal Troon, where he finished tied 27th in 2004, his joint best finish in the Championship. Pampling came through The Open Qualifying Series at the Emirates Australian Open last year to secure his place at the 144TH Open at St Andrews.
“To know you’re in the event is fantastic,” said Pampling. “Peter Dawson let me start the event off last year and it was fantastic to have that honour.
“I’m delighted to get back there. Obviously it’s where the game started. The results haven’t shown it, but I really enjoy playing The Open. Hopefully this year, maybe I will work it out and who knows what we can do. It’s certainly awesome to be getting back into The Open again.”
Culllen mixed five birdies and four bogeys in his final round 68 but an eagle on the par five 14th hole helped him move to three-under-par for the championship. When former US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy’s challenge faded after dropping three shots on the last two holes to finish on one-under-par, the 31-year-old from Adelaide secured his second appearance in The Open after making his Major Championship debut in The Open at Royal Lytham in 2012.
“It is probably one of the most memorable experiences I have had (playing at The Open in 2012),” said Cullen. “Unfortunately I missed the cut by a shot but links golf I have always loved it so playing at Troon is going to be amazing. “It’s unbelievable. I didn’t think it would be enough coming in. I thought I needed to make a couple of putts in the last couple of holes but I’ll take it. I’m very happy.”
The Open Qualifying Series continued at the Thailand Golf Championship this week.
The Australian trio of Matt Jones, Rod Pampling and Nick Cullen qualified for the 145TH OPEN in Sydney.
Jones qualified in style by winning the Emirates Australian Open, finishing on an eight-under-par total of 276 for the championship, one shot ahead of Adam Scott and Jordan Spieth, who are both exempt for The Open. Pampling finished a shot further back on six-under-par, three ahead of Cullen who tied on three-under-par with fellow Australian Lincoln Tighe but secured the qualifying place thanks to his higher position in the Official World Golf Ranking.
Sydney-born Jones, who is a member of The Australian Golf Club, which hosted the event will make his third consecutive appearance in The Open after finishing tied 30th at St Andrews this year.
“It’s one Major I would love to win, it’s one Major that I think suits my golf game the best,” said 35-year-old Jones. “I’m absolutely ecstatic to get back to The Open. I have played it the last two years and to be able to qualify this early on means I can schedule around it and get ready for it.
“I just love it over there, being in Europe playing golf is just fantastic. I can’t wait to get over there for The Open. Apart from winning this golf tournament, that was my next goal - to qualify for The Open. I want to play as many Majors as I can and to qualify for The Open already this year is fantastic. I am going to go over a week early this time and prepare.”
Pampling started the day at four-over-par and a bogey at the first did not augur well but from there the Queenslander birdied nine of the next 16 holes before holing a putt across the length of the green on the last for a dramatic eagle for a ten-under-par, course record 61 that took him into the qualifying places.
The 46-year-old will make his ninth appearance in The Open at Royal Troon, where he finished tied 27th in 2004, his joint best finish in the Championship. Pampling came through The Open Qualifying Series at the Emirates Australian Open last year to secure his place at the 144TH Open at St Andrews.
“To know you’re in the event is fantastic,” said Pampling. “Peter Dawson let me start the event off last year and it was fantastic to have that honour.
“I’m delighted to get back there. Obviously it’s where the game started. The results haven’t shown it, but I really enjoy playing The Open. Hopefully this year, maybe I will work it out and who knows what we can do. It’s certainly awesome to be getting back into The Open again.”
Culllen mixed five birdies and four bogeys in his final round 68 but an eagle on the par five 14th hole helped him move to three-under-par for the championship. When former US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy’s challenge faded after dropping three shots on the last two holes to finish on one-under-par, the 31-year-old from Adelaide secured his second appearance in The Open after making his Major Championship debut in The Open at Royal Lytham in 2012.
“It is probably one of the most memorable experiences I have had (playing at The Open in 2012),” said Cullen. “Unfortunately I missed the cut by a shot but links golf I have always loved it so playing at Troon is going to be amazing. “It’s unbelievable. I didn’t think it would be enough coming in. I thought I needed to make a couple of putts in the last couple of holes but I’ll take it. I’m very happy.”
The Open Qualifying Series continued at the Thailand Golf Championship this week.
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Teenage Thai talent Phachara Khongwatmai will become one of the youngest players in recent history to tee it up at The OPEN after securing one of the four qualifying spots on offer at the fifth edition of the Thailand Golf Championship.
The US$1 million event, which has been part of The R&A's Open Qualifying Series since 2014, saw Jamie Donaldson claim his first victory of the season in fine style. The Welshman, who clinched the winning point for Europe at the last installment of the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, fired a brilliant 65 to finish three shots ahead of two-time Thailand Golf Championship winner Lee Westwood and rising French star Clement Sordet on 21-under-par. Donaldson, Westwood and Sordet also earned their berths at The 145th Open thanks to their play at the award-winning Amata Spring Country Club, but it was the performance of Phachara that stood out. Phachara, who is fighting to retain his Asian Tour card after an inconsistent season, was only assured of his place in the Thailand Golf Championship field after getting through the qualifying tournament on Monday. Now, thanks to a fine 66 in the final round to finish the event in solo sixth – which earned the final Open spot for those players who were not already exempt – he can look forward to making his major debut. "I am overwhelmed with happiness that I can be included in The Open," said an emotional Phachara, who moved up into 63rd on the Asian Tour Order of Merit. "I played with no expectations so I guess that was the key to playing well today. "I was already very happy to get a chance to play with the top stars this week," continued Phacahara. "I didn't think so much and I surprised even myself to finish so well ... I am really happy with how I played. I had a great day out there." |
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Zach Johnson @ZachJohnsonPGA · 1h1 hour ago
Happy New Year! Excited to see what God has in store for 2016. Listen and follow. |
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Three players today at the Joburg Open - Haydn Porteous, Zander Lombard, and Anthony Wall - earned invites to this year's OPEN.
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The next qualifying event isn't until the Mizuno Open in Japan from May 26-29.
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See that young 21-year-old SA lad ZANDER LOMBARD is sleeping-on-second-place in the Tshwane Open in Pretoria CC tonite.
He is looking to be the fifth first-time winner of the season and third South African in the last few weeks to claim a maiden European Tour victory after Brandon Stone (The BMW SA Open) and then Haydn Porteous (Joburg Open) at Royal Johannesburg & Kensington Golf Club. Lombard has enjoyed an excellent start to the season, missing out on a play-off at the Australian PGA Championship by one shot where he finished 4th, finished in a tie for 12th at the BMW SA Open and slept in a 4-way-tie for the lead, with Porteous, USA's Daniel Im and Anthony Wall in Johannesburg, finishing -16 on his own in second place with 71*64*65*71. Zander held a two-shot lead after 7 holes of the front nine in Joburg but a few 3 putts cost him dear !  |
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a tough finish for lombard today, but one for the notebook no doubt
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EIGHT players earn a place in THE 145TH OPEN as one of the TOP 50 ranked players in the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) as of Week 21.
Russell Knox, runner-up in last week’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, is the highest ranked of the new entries at 23, it is a superb opportunity to build on a growing reputation in the game, sparked by his victory in last year's WGC-HSBC Champions event, where he became the first player to win a World Golf Championship on debut. In his last three starts alone Knox has finished runner-up at The Heritage and tied 19th at THE PLAYERS Championship, in addition to last week’s effort at The K Club where he briefly led the tournament on the back nine, before he was overtaken by an inspired late charge from tournament host Rory McIlroy. The 30-year-old originally hails from Inverness so will enjoy the visit to nearby Castle Stuart for the Scottish Open in the week before THE OPEN. He will also be keen to improve on last year's debut in the Championship, when he completed rounds of 72-74 to miss the cut on The Old Course at St Andrews. Also securing a berth at Royal Troon is American Kevin Chappell who has three runner-up finishes this season. The 29-year-old has earned those results at the RSM Classic, Arnold Palmer Invitational and THE PLAYERS Championship. It’s been a stellar year for the Californian with another two top tens, but he still seeks his first win. His appearance at Royal Troon will be his first at THE OPEN, but he does boast two major championship top ten finishes at the US Open back in 2011 and 2012. Another in-form player to seal his place is Spain's Rafael Cabrera-Bello who has posted no less than nine top 20 finishes around the world in 2016, including third place in the World Golf Championship-Dell Match Play. The 31-year-old, currently ranked 4th on the European Tour's Race to Dubai, will be making his fifth appearance at THE OPEN and hoping to claim a first top 20 finish. Like Chappell, Argentina's Emiliano Grillo will be making his Championship debut at Royal Troon. The 23-year-old made a spectacular breakthrough in 2015, first winning the Web.com Tour Championship to graduate to the PGA TOUR and then claiming the Frys.com Open two weeks later. He will be inspired by compatriot Roberto De Vicenzo who in 1967 became the only Argentinian winner of THE OPEN and who also finished second at Troon in 1950. Also certain of his debut in THE OPEN is Justin Thomas, the Kentucky player who won the CIMB Classic in Malaysia and cemented his place with a third placed finish at THE PLAYERS Championship earlier this month. Ryan Moore, the 33-year-old four-time winner on the PGA TOUR, will make his seventh appearance at THE OPEN. The 2004 US Amateur champion will be hoping to improve on his best finish of tied 12th at Royal Liverpool in 2014. Three-time PGA TOUR winner Billy Horschel is best known for completing back-to-back victories at the close of the 2014 season, including the Tour Championship which earned him the lucrative FedEx Cup. The 29-year-old has played in the last three Championships, missing the cut in 2013 and 2014 before closing with a 67 at St Andrews last year to finish tied 30th. The last man to confirm his spot, right on the number at #50 OWGR, is Sweden's David Lingmerth. The 28-year-old made the cut on debut at THE OPEN last year and will be seeking to become the first Swedish winner of a major championship. |
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Just wondering at preso time will Dawson or whoever announce it as
The winner of the Gold Medal(as has been the case) or will they just stay with,the champion golfer of the year. |
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http://www.scotsman.com/sport/golf/opening-tee-shot-of-the-open-to-be-on-tv-live-for-first-time-1-4144015
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Kodai Ichihara, Shugo Imahira, Sang-hee Lee and Hideto Tanihara qualify for The OPEN thru the Mizuno Open.
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Lasse Jensen is looking forward to testing himself against the best players in the world after earning a berth at the Open Championship with his second-placed finish at the Nordea Masters. A spot at Royal Troon was available to the highest-placed non-exempt player within the top five at Bro Hof Slott Golf Club and with winner Matthew Fitzpatrick already exempt, Jensen's 13 under par total was enough to take him to Scotland.
Jensen made two eagles on the final day in shooting 4-under-par 34-34=68 at Bro Hof Slott GC to finish solo second in the Nordea Masters, three shots behind winner Matthew Fitzpatrick. The Dane had only once before breached the top ten in 61 starts on the European Tour, when T7 in the 2014 Made in Denmark tournament. But he recorded his best performance yet with another round of composed aggression in Stockholm. He had started the week slowly with a 72 but followed it with 69-66-68; he was 44-for-54 in greens in regulation in those final three rounds. On Sunday his two nines were startlingly similar. He started with bogey (on 2 and 10), then made eagle (on 6 and 13), before adding birdie (on 9 and 15). His 13-under 275 total left him one shot ahead of Nicolas Colsaerts in third. |
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5 past US Open winners at Oakmont have gone on to win the open
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Americans Steve Stricker T2, Brian Gay 6th, and Russell Henley T7, and Korea’s Seung-Yul Noh T7 qualified for Troon at the FedEx St Jude Classic in Memphis, Tennessee. With 4 places available the winner Daniel Berger was already qualified, as was Koepka T2, Mickelson T2 & Dustin 5th.
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Billy Hurley III make his Open debut in 2014, 21-year-old Spaniard and former #1 World Amateur Jon Rahm T3, Vijay Singh who made his first appearance in The Open at Royal Troon in 1989, will play in his 25th Championship and 89th major after finishing runner-up behind Hurley, and along with Harold Varner III qualified at the Quicken Loans National at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland.
Six players also qualified for The Open through the European Tour Race to Dubai and the PGA TOUR FedEx Cup rankings. In the Race to Dubai, England’s [b]Andrew Johnston, Sweden’s Rikard Karlberg, South Korea’s Soomin Lee, and Joost Luiten from the Netherlands all earned a place at Royal Troon, while Americans William McGirt and Smylie Kaufman booked their place through the FedEx Cup. |
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The Final Qualifying Series for 12 places at The Open takes place today at these four venues - Gailes Links, Hillside, Royal Cinque Ports and Woburn.
Monty currently leads in the clubhouse at Gailes Links after his first round. Ireland's Kevin Phelan lies third in the clubhouse leaderboard. |
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Ireland's Paul Dunne is T2 @-4 in Woburn after his first round 68.
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https://twitter.com/TheOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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The Final 12 Qualifiers...
Steven Alker Eighteen years on from his first Open appearance, the New Zealand journeyman will be back for more at Royal Troon after ending runner-up at Royal Cinque Ports. The 44-year-old has played on numerous tours in a career spanning two decades, appearing mostly on the Web.com Tour this campaign having featured heavily on the PGA Tour last time around. Alker has eight professional victories worldwide, while his best Open performance saw him end tied-19th at Lytham St. Annes in 2012. Alker's last win came on the Web.com Tour in 2014 Oskar Arvidsson The little-known Swede was the surprise winner at Gailes Links, firing a bogey-free opening-round 64 on his way to finishing four clear of the chasing pack. Ranked 1418th in the world, Arvidsson posted three top-20 finishes in as many weeks at the start of the Asian Development Tour season, but hasn't registered one since. Arvidsson failed at the first qualifying stage in his efforts to reach this year's European Tour, but will now have a chance to impress in Scotland next month. Dave Coupland The Lincolnshire player followed a tied-sixth finish on the EuroPro Tour earlier in the week by edging through the play-off at Hillside. Coupland narrowly missed out on a top-10 finish in Austria last year. Coupland bounced back from a second-round 73 to become the first player to progress via extra holes. The Woodhall Spa-based golfer has appeared frequently on the Challenge Tour this season, having ended tied-11th in his first European Tour start at last year's Lyoness Open. Paul Dunne Dunne will make a maiden major appearance as a professional after winning Woburn qualifying for the third year running. The Irishman, who missed the Open cut in 2014, famously held a share of the 54-hole of the lead last year as an amateur before eventually ending tied-30th. Dunne held the 36-hole lead at St Andrews. After winning the Walker Cup and turning professional, the 22-year-old has since gone on to claim six top-20 finishes on the European Tour. Ryan Evans The Wellingborough GC member continued his rise in the sport by posting back-to-back rounds of 68 at Woburn and earning his Open debut. Evans impressed in his first season on the Challenge Tour last year, posting two top-fives and ending 28th in the Road to Oman standings, before progressing through Q-School to secure his European Tour card. Although Evans has missed the cut in nine of his 13 worldwide starts this season, he did post his best finish of his career by ending tied-12th at the Mauritius Open. Scott Fernandez The 23-year-old is one of several to be added to an Open roster for the first time after an impressive showing at Gailes Links. A birdie-filled 66 during the second round of qualifying gave the Spaniard, who was educated in America before turning professional, a first major start. Playing predominately on the Challenge Tour this campaign, Fernandez has ended inside the top-25 in five of his last eight starts. James Heath The 33-year-old made it a week to remember after following a long-awaited victory by coming through qualifying with a fast finish at Royal Cinque Ports. Having ended a 10-year drought by winning the SSE Scot Hydro Challenge, Heath birdied the last two holes of his final round to end qualifying tied for second in Kent. Heath's only other professional win came on the Challenge Tour at the 2006 ECCO Tour Championship, while the Londoner's best showing on the European Tour came via a share of fourth at last year's M2M Russian Open. Paul Howard Howard is another player to secure a first major start after taking the first round lead on his way to progressing through the field at Hillside. The Southport & Ainsdale golfer was in the initial squad for last year's Walker Cup, only to miss out on final selection after turning professional a few months before Great Britain and Ireland's victory. After mixing the rest of 2015 between playing the Challenge Tour and the EuroPro Tour, Howard has been a regular in Europe's second tier this season and recently finished joint-second at the Swiss Masters. Colin Montgomerie The five-time major runner-up and three-time senior major champion booked his first Open appearance since 2010 after coming out of the Gailes Links qualifier in third spot. Montgomerie finished tied-25th the last time it was held at Royal Troon. Although he hasn't appeared on the European Tour since missing the cut at last year's PGA Championship, the Scot has already posted four top-10 finishes on the Champions Tour in 2016. Montgomerie, who is relishing the chance to play on his home course, will also be part of the Sky Sports Golf pundit team during the tournament. Robert Rock The English needed a play-off to book his spot at Royal Troon, posting a second-round 66 before edging past Aaron Rai. Rock made an early exit during his last Open visit in 2012. Rock missed the cut in the last of his six Open starts four years' ago, while his best showing came when he ended tied-seventh at St Andrews in 2010. The world No 213 fell narrowly short of a third European Tour title at last month's Trophee Hassan II, ending tied-third one stroke short of Jeunghun Wang, with his last win coming at the 2012 Abu Dhabi Championship. Jack Senior The Lancastrian posted rounds of 69 and 70 to claim a three-shot win over the chasing pack at Hillside and secure a maiden major appearance. Once part of the same 2011 Walker Cup winning side as Andy Sullivan, the 27-year-old has missed in the cut in seven of his 11 appearances so far in 2016. Senior's biggest win to date was in Scotland at last year's SSE Scot Hydro Challenge, where he came through a three-man play-off to claim victory, although he suffered an early exit from the event this time around. Matthew Southgate The Essex-based player missed the cut in his only previous Open start two years' ago, but has completed a remarkable recovery to make the field for golf's oldest major. Southgate was sidelined last season after being diagnosed with testicular cancer, but returned to action after treatment and came through all three stages of the Qualifying School to regain his European Tour card. The 27-year-old took advantage of a late call-up to post a career-best finish at May's Irish Open, before topping the leaderboard in final qualifying at Royal Cinque Ports. And those who missed out… Walker Cup winner Ashley Chesters, who ended tied-12th in 2015, failed to make it a third straight year at the Open when he missed out in a play-off, while Australia's Scott Arnold and European Tour regular Tjaart Van Der Walt also couldn't make it through from Hillside. Kevin Phelan and Scott Jamieson were among those not to progress from Gailes Links and world No 117 Dean Burmester was one stroke off a play-off at Royal Cinque Ports, as former Czech Open champion Oliver Fisher and Sweden's Marcus Kinhult fell short at Woburn. |
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Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the Open and is replaced by Marcus Fraser of Australia.
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Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the Open at Royal Troon because of Zika (18yo tall blond) - with Luke Donald now first reserve.
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Billy Hurley III has withdrawn from The Open and is replaced by Jim Herman of the United States.
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Congrats to Paris qualifiers
STONE, Brandon NOREN, Alex SHINKWIN, Callum STERNE, Richard |
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ONLY 10 DAYS TO GO - Players who made the T10 at last year's OPEN automatically qualify. Backed LUITEN @200/1
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THE Spreadsheet you've all been waiting for...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q-c0Ea6oq1g0LpBWRCdvdr70F5212_RZuxOXHc4eRDI/pubhtml |
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Australian Greg Chalmers booked his place (and his fourth appearance) at The OPEN by winning the Barracuda Championship at Montreux Golf and Country Club in Reno, Nevada. It was Chalmers first win on the PGA TOUR as he held off a late charge from American Gary Woodland and the final PGA TOUR event in The Open Qualifying Series.
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great info catch
you must lov the open |
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Prefer it on BBC tbh
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http://www.theopen.com/News/News/2016/07/Prize-fund-announced-for-The-145th-Open-at-Royal-Troon
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luke donald in after j van zyl withdraws.
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d summerhays in after s cink withdraws.
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Tks Ash
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I met Rory today at Troon as he was about to play his practice round...i'm buzzing for next week.
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whats the rough like gt ?
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Never really got a look at the course itself Donny.
Although I did caddy there circa 1982 lol. For my betting purposes might have a few quid on Rory & a couple of American tour GIR type of guys as the greens are small and accuracy will be paramount. |
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Daniel Berger has withdrawn from #TheOpen and is replaced by Jamie Lovemark of the United States.
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Anyone got any thoughts on next week as yet? Scottish Open comms were talking about the difficulty off the tee that Troon presents. Doesn't bode well for Day after what we saw at Firestone. DJ off the tee though is ridiculous at the moment, and given his current and Open form I don't see how he doesn't start a clear favourite next week. Grace driving the ball very well but don't see huge value in his price any longer. DJ and Kaymer my only two fancies at the moment.
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not a fan of backing DJ.....but like you say the way hes driving..even chipping and putting he is hard to look against. might just be the one bet for me thaat week
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even with all his mental frailties from just losing the plot on certain holes, nt concentrating on putts and just awful course management he was still winning once a year, i think alot of that has been fixed especially the mental area do i think from now on we will see a new Dustbin
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cashbin from now on
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