Shootout delivers final spot at the Open for e Morrisons driver Joe Dean
32-year-old, who admitted feeling ‘the stress’ with six holes to go, won by one shot with his fiancee as his caddie A greenside bunker shot
32-year-old, who admitted feeling ‘the stress’ with six holes to go, won by one shot with his fiancee as his caddie A greenside bunker shot that landed like a butterfly with sore feet. A knee-knocker of a 4ft putt, thumped into the back of the hole.
Joe Dean did not win the Open Championship on Monday – and inevitably will not on Sunday, either – but the drama delivered by the former delivery driver from Sheffield fully justified R&A innovation. It has long seemed unsatisfactory that focus shifts towards golfers beginning their Open buildup as a tournament concludes elsewhere.
Scottie Scheffler missed the cut at the Scottish Open yet the world No 1 drew eyeballs at Royal Birkdale on Sunday as he plotted a Claret Jug defence. A day later, the Open’s organisers broke with recent form by delivering some of the real stuff.
The Birkdale scene was all the better for that. Continue reading...
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