The Open 2017: The real Rory McIlroy ‘ecstatic’ with Birkdale fightback
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By Kent Gray at Royal Birkdale Rory McIlroy needed his caddy to remind him that he was, well,…
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The Open 2017: Spieth flaunts claret credentials as Birkdale bites back
By Kent Gray at Royal Birkdale Strike Mother Nature off the list of outside agencies standing between Jordan Spieth and the Claret Jug then. If the 23-year-old Texan was stressed…
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The Open 2017: Kuchar savours the sanctuary of the sofa
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By Kent Gray at Royal Birkdale Sometimes even the best players in the world prefer being armchair experts…
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Birkdale Morning Report: 5 things for your Open Friday
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By Kent Gray at Royal Birkdale Thirty nine players bettered par on an absorbing opening day at the…
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Spieth fires 65 and promptly puts Birkdale rivals on notice
with 9 out of 10 self assessment
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By Kent Gray at Royal Birkdale From the breakfast table to the range, on to the first tee…
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Poulter struts his stuff with opening 67
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By Kent Gray at Royal Birkdale Thomas Bjorn apparently detected Ian Poulter’s trademark strut return for the first…
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Why another first-timer (probably) won’t win this Open Championship
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By Kent Gray at Royal Birkdale Much has been made of first-timers claiming the seven most recent majors…
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Rory knows he’s a broken record but ‘As I keep saying, it doesn’t feel that far away’
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By Kent Gray at Royal Birkdale When Rory McIlroy backed up his Open Championship triumph at Royal Liverpool…
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Jason Day mightn’t be overly confident for The Open but believes “good and big things are coming for me”
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By Kent Gray at Royal Birkdale Asked to sum up his form leading into the 146th Open Championship…
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Jon Rahm plays the “New Seve” comparisons as they lie
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By Kent Gray The question was uncomfortable, historically unfair and utterly inevitable for a young Spaniard is such…
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Henrik Stenson feeling (just a little) more upbeat about his Claret Jug defence
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It turns out reports of Henrik Stenson’s form demise has been greatly slightly exaggerated, by the Swede himself.
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Jordan Spieth: British weather makes The Open ‘easiest of the majors to win’
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Talk of golf’s ‘Big Four’ is redundant and you can forget another Tiger-esque era, perhaps ever. Oh, and…
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It’s golf before love for Sergio Garcia, this week at least
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The opening line of questioning was the same for Sergio Garcia as it had been at the Omega…
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Tommy Fleetwood on faking signatures, sneaking on to Royal Birkdale and the lure of the Claret Jug
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As a kid, Tommy Fleetwood would to sneak on to the links at Royal Birkdale with his father,…
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Stenson and Spieth, DJ and Rory match-ups headline Thursday’s opening round
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Mark O’Meara, the 127th Open champion at Royal Birkdale in 1998, will hit the opening shot of the…
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Justin Rose, the ‘history books guy’, ready for his Royal Birkdale encore
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By Kent Gray at Royal Birkdale – Justin Rose’s last hole hole-out at the 1998 Open Championship was…
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Stenson treats Claret Jug “like my baby” but knows its time to let it go
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So, what’s it really like becoming a major champion for the first time? For Open champion Henrik Stenson,…
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Could you earn a play date with Rahmbo?
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Need inspiration to keep grinding away at your game on the range this summer? May we suggest a…
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