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2023 British Open

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I think we fall into the trap of thinking because the leaders aren’t major winners, that the leaders are only leading because the great players are playing poorly. But I don’t see that. Harmon is playing like he was playing different course today. Fleetwood really pushed to save par on a bunch of holes. Kudos to both of them. I hope both of them hold their own the next couple of days.

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I thought I’d put up a quick travel log of our trip to the open.  Well we woke up  this morning to clear blue skies and warm sunshine. Murphy’s law I suppose after the massively wet day we spent

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And we have an early candidate for the most noted drop of the championship.  It appears a bird confused Viktor Hovland for Ian Poulter.  I don't know how you could make that confusion, Ian isn't even

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I'll have to keep that shot in mind for the future   Also is it my imagination or is "Tour" misspelled in both the name and address?

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  On 7/22/2023 at 2:05 AM, boogielicious said:

I think we fall into the trap of thinking because the leaders aren’t major winners, that the leaders are only leading because the great players are playing poorly. But I don’t see that. Harmon is playing like he was playing different course today. Fleetwood really pushed to save par on a bunch of holes. Kudos to both of them. I hope both of them hold their own the next couple of days.

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  On 7/22/2023 at 2:44 AM, billchao said:

 

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I wished they would have paired little Harman along with that 6'8" South African amateur that played so well the first day. Both were Georgia bulldogs. The contrast would have been interesting. 


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Rahmbo just carded a 63, 8 under on the day, -6 for the tourney.

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Leaderboard is gearing up for Sunday. Even if Harman has a similar lead tomorrow, it’s far from over.

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  On 7/22/2023 at 2:32 PM, snapfade said:

Rahmbo just carded a 63, 8 under on the day, -6 for the tourney.

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First round of 64 or lower at Hoylake in the Open.

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Leaderboard is gearing up for Sunday. Even if Harman has a similar lead tomorrow, it’s far from over.

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The scoring average is down today and so far he’s moving in the wrong direction.

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Are you guys watching some golf championship in Liverpool? All I’m getting is a Beatles tribute interrupted by a few golf shots.

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The R&A should be ashamed for letting the course get so easy! They should turn up the wind machines, turn off the rain and grow the rough around the greens to 6” (15cm) overnight to make this a tougher tournament.😜

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The R&A should be ashamed for letting the course get so easy! They should turn up the wind machines, turn off the rain and grow the rough around the greens to 6” (15cm) overnight to make this a tougher tournament.😜

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And what’s up with those amateur pot bunkers? Minimum walls of 8ft otherwise it’s not even a hazard!

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I so wanna swing like Fleetwood when I grow up. That's gotta be one of the most ideal links swing of all time.

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Are you guys watching some golf championship in Liverpool? All I’m getting is a Beatles tribute interrupted by a few golf shots.

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I could watch 50 hours of golf this week with zero ads. Maybe one or two the first and last minute of the broadcast. No Beatles here. 😀

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I could watch 50 hours of golf this week with zero ads. Maybe one or two the first and last minute of the broadcast. No Beatles here. 😀

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Along with your 50 hours of golf in Norway each year. 😃

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The R&A should be ashamed for letting the course get so easy! They should turn up the wind machines, turn off the rain and grow the rough around the greens to 6” (15cm) overnight to make this a tougher tournament.😜

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I have often said that the golden age of major championship golf (aka, the years when I was getting into golf, naturally), the Open Championship's strategy of giving some of the gardeners a few weeks off from maintaining the second cut was the best. ;-) 

It is nice to see three people who I wanted to see win last year's British in the top 11 of the leaderboard this year. 

Oooh, and it was nice to see a spectator wearing a New Orleans Saints hat.  And I don't even like the Saints, I just love seeing NFL apparel overseas. 

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Still hoping for a  Harman collapse. 

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I do not know much about Harmon, why do I see a lot of negativity about him?

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