The Open Championship 2026: Crowning the champion golfer of the year

[MileHigh]

And misses the putt, settles for 62 to tie the lowest round in major history.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Ties Roy McAvoy

 

[TigerVols]

Ties Roy McAvoy

And Sam Burns now!

 

[SixToe]

Birkdale reminds me of a PGA C'ship at Southern Hills on a hotter than hell August windless baked course.

Also, Bryson is about to have some fun.

 

[hondo]

Never mind all that. Who the hell is Jackson Suber?

All-American at Ole Miss. Ranked No. 1 in college golf during one season.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Dry, fast and no weather or much wind. These guys are too good not to eat it up.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Ties Roy McAvoy

Now ... for Mr. Herbert NOT to pull a Roy McAvoy - or Jean Van de Velde - on the 72nd hole ...

 

[TigerVols]

Scottie deserves a two-shot penalty for the poop brown pants he's wearing today.

 

[playthrough]

Dry, fast and no weather or much wind. These guys are too good not to eat it up.

Never fails. Some are howling "obsolete links courses!" and forgetting the fact that firm and fast and windless 8,000-yard U.S. parkland courses are torn up by pros too.

 

[UPChip]

I do appreciate that there were multiple 62's in the field today and yet it still looks highly competitive for the weekend.

 

[rtse11]

I think Spieth is cooked for good. He may never win another tournament, let alone a major.

 

[brn623cl]

Did Bryson do a no-no?

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Bryson in a little Patrick Reed-esque situation?

https://clutchpoints.com/golf/bryson-dechambeau-embroiled-rules-controversy-open-championship

 

[Deskgrunt50]

DeChambeau and Wyndham Clark in a tight competition for golf’s biggest douchebag. **** that guy.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Here's one thing I don't understand. There's a rules official with every playing group. Obviously he was there when DeChambeau was standing in the mush at the 5th hole. Shouldn't said official have the power to then and there tell the golfer "you may have violated a rule there, and we're going to look at it." That's a lot fairer than these end of day surprises.

 

[TigerVols]

He clearly, purposely stomps the grass down.

 

[SixToe]

I think Spieth is cooked for good. He may never win another tournament, let alone a major.

Texted this to my brother and son earlier. I think he’s done.

 

[da man]

Here's one thing I don't understand. There's a rules official with every playing group. Obviously he was there when DeChambeau was standing in the mush at the 5th hole. Shouldn't said official have the power to then and there tell the golfer "you may have violated a rule there, and we're going to look at it." That's a lot fairer than these end of day surprises.

Early on Gannon asked their rules guy if it was spotted on the course and he said no, someone called it in afterward.

 

[rtse11]

Here's one thing I don't understand. There's a rules official with every playing group. Obviously he was there when DeChambeau was standing in the mush at the 5th hole. Shouldn't said official have the power to then and there tell the golfer "you may have violated a rule there, and we're going to look at it." That's a lot fairer than these end of day surprises.

Good point

 

[UPChip]

Based on what I saw, I think he's probably guilty but without intent. I see him lifting his feet in and around the tall grass, most likely out of a fear that he's going to step on his own ball.

It seems counterintuitive to me that he would stomp around with the express intent of improving his lie, because he's just as likely to make it worse under those conditions.

That said, his actions did improve his lie, and thus are cause for penalty.

As they said on TV, hopefully an hour or two of bashing balls around the range will remind him that he's merely three shots off the lead in the Open instead of one and give him cause to focus up. Because if we're in 2020 US Open Bryson mode through the weekend, it might just be whether he wins by four or six. That tee shot on the dogleg, other than braining someone in the last row of the bleachers, is one of those shots no one else on the property has.

As for Bryson the guy, he seems like something of a cross between Gronk and Mike Leach. If I could have 15 minutes on golf topics only, I think I'd find at least that facet of him fairly interesting.