Sam Burns opened his week at Royal Birkdale with a one-over 73, the kind of round that gets a player talked about as a missed-cut candidate rather than a …
Ryan Fox stood over an eleven-foot putt on the 72nd hole at Royal Birkdale knowing that making it won the Open Championship outright and missing it left the …
Royal Birkdale has spent three days quietly rewriting how firm and fast a links course can play in a heatwave. On Friday, Lucas Herbert and Sam Burns both shot …
Royal Birkdale has form for this sort of thing. Nine years after Branden Grace shot the first sub-63 round in major championship history on this same Southport …
Nobody built a storyline around Jackson Suber this week, and that was rather the point. A 26-year-old Korn Ferry Tour graduate with three top tens on the PGA …
Nine years ago Royal Birkdale played soft enough that Jordan Spieth could throw darts at flags from the rough and watch them stop, the kind of Open that let a …
The 154th Open begins on Thursday at Royal Birkdale, and for most of the 156 players in the field that means a flight, a hotel, and a week of trying to feel at …
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 …
Final Qualifying for The Open does not get the build-up of a Tour event, but it produces one of the more honest days in golf. On Tuesday, 288 players went out …
In five weeks the Open Championship returns to Royal Birkdale, and the certainty worth holding onto amid all the build-up is this: whoever lifts the Claret Jug …
