When you consider the 151st Open Championship through the prism of history, the contrasts are staggering. While some lament that Brian Harman, an otherwise uninspiring journeyman player, just won the 2023 Open Championship with plodding methodical golf, others celebrate his victory as a win for the little guy. We all love a feel-good story of unsung heroes finally...
The Open Championship Spotter’s Guide or Who is That Guy Again? —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— Back in the day, Dan Jenkins, King of All Golf Writers, was asked about a Masters leaderboard full of golfers he found obscure, milquetoast, or otherwise inconvenient. “Whose chances do you like?” one of the other writers queried of him. Jenkins took a long...
Rahm Surges, Harman Still Leads Open Championship at Royal Liverpool —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— Two-time major champion Jon Rahm of Spain fired a tournament low and Royal Liverpool Golf Club record 63 in the third round of the 151st Open Championship to surge into contention, but leader Brian Harman continued his unflappable play carding a 69 for a...
Stars Aligning for Amateur Phenom Christo Lamprecht at Royal Liverpool Open Championship —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— Somewhere in Heaven the Golf Gods are smiling, because a young amateur is leading the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, the club with, perhaps, the richest amateur history in the game. South African Christo Lamprecht – who won...
Welcome to the most Jekyll and Hyde of the Open Championship Rota courses, Royal Liverpool Golf Club – Hoylake to its friends. When one thinks of the town of Liverpool, rock music comes to mind first, of course, not golf. The Beatles put the town on the world map forever and are still the alpha predator of the modern music world. Everyone wants the Beatles as their...
Open Championship week begins imminently, so don’t put those strawberries and cream away. It’ll be early morning golf on the shores of Royal Liverpool, where some of the greatest names in golf were crowned de facto World Champion. Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Peter Thomson, Roberto DiVicenzo, Tiger Woods, and Rory McIlroy all hoisted the Claret Jug at...
“May you live in interesting times.” Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â —Ancient Klingon Curse It’s Championship Sunday, and not just any Championship Sunday, but the 150th Open Championship Sunday at the Old Course of St. Andrews, the home of golf. It’s supposed to be a time of joyous celebration and poignant reflection, a moment when all...
It sounds like an old school comic book exclamation: GREAT SCOTT! Maybe it’s Spider-man, or maybe Superman, or maybe it’s Captain America, but whomever, add Adam Scott and Scottie Scheffler to that list as they both shot themselves into contention at the 150th Open Championship, the de facto world championship of golf. Reigning Masters champion and...
He’s the hero we need right now, but don’t deserve. Golf’s current white knight, Rory McIlroy, opened the 150th Open Championship with a scintillating 6-under 66 over the Old Course at St. Andrews, delighting the over 40,000 attendant fans and millions more worldwide hoping to see him win his first major championship in eight years and his second...
It’s not just any Open Championship week, it’s the 150th Open Championship at the home of golf, the Old Course at St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. We’ll be covering the even for Golf News Net, with a piece a day all week, followed by coverage on iHeartRadio and updates for 92.7 the Drive. We’ll take our usual walk through golf history, get into...
Royal Portrush (Dunluce Links), Northern Island’s most iridescent emerald of a golf course, has been awarded the 2025 Open Championship. Ireland’s Shane Lowry brought the Claret Jug home to Ireland after winning in 2019, the last time Portrush hosted the Open, one of the most widely celebrated wins in the 149 years of the tournament. Here are the sites...
Fresh-faced recent college grads that play video games, eat hamburgers every day, don’t have a sense of golf history, and never played links golf in their life aren’t supposed to be taking home ancient championships with silver encrusted trophies that have names, but damn “paying your dues” and “learning how to win,” just point...
With England under the inept tutelage of a weak king, Edward VI, the only legitimate son of Henry VIII, in 1457 a French raiding party made its way to Kent and burned much of the city of Sandwich to the ground. What was left was pillaged under the orders of the Marshal of France, one Pierre De Breze. During the carnage, the Mayor of Sandwich was murdered. Ever since...
Top Reasons to Watch the Open Championship this Morning GOLF FOR BREAKFAST Don’t you just love it? Wake up to the greatest golf tournament in the world. The heck with playing; it’s high summer, there’s plenty of time for 18 holes after the Open is over. Think of this weekend as golf’s proper rejoinder to breakfast at Wimbledon. And speaking of...
Louis Oosthuizen fired a scintillating 65 in the second round of the 149th Open Championship at Royal St. George’s Golf Club to post 11-under 129 and take a two shot lead over 2020 PGA Champion Collin Morikawa and three strokes over three-time major champion Jordan Spieth. Oosthuizen also set a new Open Championshjip record for the lowest opening 36 holes. A...