https://pinhighpress.com/tags/joe-dean/ Recent content in Joe Dean on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/joe-dean-wins-open-last-chance-qualifier-2026/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/joe-dean-wins-open-last-chance-qualifier-2026/ <p>Twelve players teed off from Royal Birkdale at half past seven on Monday morning for a tournament that had never been played before, competing for a single place in a championship that has been played since 1860. The inaugural Open Last-Chance Qualifier was billed as a piece of theatre as much as a golf event, a 12-man shootout at the very course hosting the 154th Open three days later, and by early evening it had produced exactly the kind of winner the R&amp;A must have been hoping for when they dreamed the format up. Joe Dean, a 32-year-old Englishman who spent stretches of the last few years driving a delivery van for Morrisons, shot a two-under 68 to take the last spot in the field by a single stroke.</p>