Golf: Paul Gow has explained the pot holes associated with the iconic 123-yard 'postage stamp' at The Open.
'Miss that green, you're in all sorts' | 01:17After edging Phil Mickelson in a famous finish to the British Open when it was last played at Royal Troon in 2016, Henrik Stenson is a man with a keen eye for its intricacies.
Watch every round of The Open LIVE & Exclusive to Fox Sports, available on Kayo. COVERAGE FROM 3.30pm AEST THURSDAY.The first Scandinavian to win a major, Stenson noted that while he and Mickelson scored extremely well eight years ago, third-placegetter J.B Holmes was well back on 6-under.“It is a wonderful golf course. It is in great shape but even tougher. We’re not going to be getting round in 20-under this year,” he said.
And the course ahead shaped as an almighty challenge for a championship golfer, let alone an amateur pondering how the hell one would manage to find the fairway on the first hole. The bluffs and knolls, beach scrub and sea grass ahead formed a kaleidoscope of colour, with bush flowers breaking the varying shades of green and yellow populating the links.
Watching Jordan Spieth spitting sand from his mouth after the wind blew the remnants from a shot back in his face was just one of the images to remember from Wednesday’s practice. A burn on the third, a 376m par four, might well prove a trick if the fairways, which were beautifully grassed on Wednesday night, quicken though the weekend, while the fourth hole at 599 yards seems a monster, though could play under par based on, you guessed it, the wind.
As Mickelson said on Wednesday prior to heading out for an elongated practice round that finished well after 7pm; “Precision is most important. It makes for a more complete test.” Standing above The Postage Stamp, the famous 123 yard par three eighth, and looking down to the green is enough to make one wince.
“If the wind is blowing up, even if you’ve got the shortest of iron, it’s not an easy role to play. I’d be happy to take a bogey every time, because it is really, really difficult. Obviously it is different for the pros, but things can go really wrong there.” “I think that along with holes like the 12th at Augusta, they’re like a mental game as well with you where you feel like you probably should be able to do better, but a three is a good score.”World No.1 Scottie Scheffler, who spoke on Tuesday, expressed similar sentiments, saying it was a throwback to when technological advances were less a factor in taming courses.
“I think great little short holes like that are fun. I think it’s an underrated skill for guys nowadays to be able to control your ball, and I think it’s something we need to encourage in our game, not just building golf courses longer and longer.WHERE THE CLARET JUG WILL REALLY BE WON Four minutes later, a four carriage ScotRail sprinter dashed back the other way. It begs the question as to whether it is the train drivers or the golfers who are braver from that position.
“It’s a tale of two nines, a little bit. The front nine is much more straightforward. The back nine’s a bit trickier,” he said. But he was positioning the ball in different spots and putting towards ‘ghost holes’ as he prepared for the challenge ahead after missing the cut at the US PGA and US Open.
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