151st Open Championship running thread

[Shropshire Slasher]

FWIW, sunrise today Merseyside was 5:09 a.m. local time (12:09 a.m. EDT) and sunset was at 9:29 p.m. local time (4:29 p.m. EDT). That's 2 hours more sun in the summer than I get at approximately 33ºN.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

NBC has turned more favorite event of the year to watch into a debacle.
At 5:30 this morning my time, your commentators were Sands (who is just this side of awful as pxp), Faxon, and Curt Byrum, who was still in the U.S.
No one on the course and one person doing the holes.
For as much as ESPN has dicked up a lot of things, they got this right.
Everyone and their dog came over.
SVP
McDonough
Woj
North
Rankin
Strange
Then they drug Alliss (RIP) out from his stool in the BBC lounge for an hour or two.

I will always be amazed Steve Sands is still around.

 

[Chef2]

I will always be amazed Steve Sands is still employed.

FTFY

 

[Chef2]

Just for the sheer humor of it, I’d love to see 5’7 Harman and 6’8 Lamprecht in the final group.

 

[maumann]

Lamprecht is unraveling right from the first shot. Or way left, as the case may be.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Well, Brian Harman has set the bar rather high. Let the chase ensue.

 

[Chef2]

Lamprecht is unraveling right from the first shot. Or way left, as the case may be.

This kid may not break 80.
I had visions of the old Spike and Chester cartoon for a moment.

 

[User 149557]

Love being pitched on a $100,000 electric SUV, a Rolex and a $600 coffeemaker at 6a.m. as a bleary-eyed hungover zombie drinking Kroger coffee and an Aldi-brand pop-tart.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Jon Rahm takes moving day quite literally with a third-round 63, including a 30 on the back nine.

Think he isn't hoping the weather turns right now?

 

[User 149557]

Does anybody get rolling downhill better than Rahm? He just catches fire and looks unstoppable for periods.

 

[I Should Coco]

Love being pitched on a $100,000 electric SUV, a Rolex and a $600 coffeemaker at 6a.m. as a bleary-eyed hungover zombie drinking Kroger coffee and an Aldi-brand pop-tart.

Maybe that’s what Rahm had for breakfast today. It worked for him!

 

[I Should Coco]

As for me, the one good thing about being awakened at 6:30 a.m. on a Saturday by a pacing, howling husky is being able to flip on The Open and see the leaders tee off.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Love being pitched on a $100,000 electric SUV, a Rolex and a $600 coffeemaker at 6a.m. as a bleary-eyed hungover zombie drinking Kroger coffee and an Aldi-brand pop-tart.

Frosted brown sugar cinnamon?

 

[Chef2]

I got up at 12:30 my time yesterday to watch. Caught maybe an hour or so then went back to sleep.
I watched part of the early coverage that started at 4…..
Tirico and Faldo are still very good together. Hicks is awful. Begay is OK. I like Kaufman. Byrum is meh.
Wood probably knows the game more than the rest of them combined. I really miss Mr. Michelob.

 

[playthrough]

Yeah, it's a sad moment when Tirico hands over the PxP to Hicks on these long days. Should be the other way around.

 

[User 149557]

Frosted brown sugar cinnamon?

Of course. The king of the Pop-Tarts.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

What's with all the ****ing "WOOS"? This isn't the 9th inning of a blowout at a deserted Reds game.

 

[qtlaw]

Being a Fleetwood fan at Open today is probably like watching your team get shutout 10-0 at the home ballpark.

 

[playthrough]

Rory leaves the premises without a word to the media. Another major season lost. And bookies laughing all the way to the bank again after he was a hero a week ago at the Scottish.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Rory leaves the premises without a word to the media. Another major season lost. And bookies laughing all the way to the bank again after he was a hero a week ago at the Scottish.