Golf: 148th Open Championship

[Pavel Buchnevich]

The 148th Open will be played at Royal Portrush in Portrush, Northern Ireland.

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[JetsWillFly4Ever]

Royal Portrush looks beautiful.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Brooks again!

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I’m going to pick Rahm.

I’m glad one of the top names said this. The 2019 schedule is horrible for golf.

Justin Rose says having four majors in four months is not good for golf

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

The R&A is clearly posturing with their selection of the 2022 venue. It almost certainly has to be Scotland, but it won’t be St. Andrews or Carnoustie, and I think they’d want to avoid Troon because it would only be eight years since Troon last hosted.

That leaves Turnberry and Muirfield, but there’s conflict with hosting at either course for the R&A. Turnberry is owned by Trump, and they’ve tried to avoid any political statements on the owner of one of their courses in the rota being the President of another country. They also had a falling out with Muirfield over their no-women membership. They were temporarily kicked out of the rota until they recently changed the policy.

I think they are waiting until after the 2020 US election to announce. Their decision probably becomes a lot easier, if Trump isn’t re-elected. Turnberry is up in the rota. If he is re-elected, I can see Turnberry being skipped and they choose between Muirfield and Troon. I’d guess Muirfield because that would make a lot more sense, but if Muirfield is really on the outs with the R&A leadership, it could be Troon.

I guess they could kick the decision down the road a year and select Lytham for 2022, and that decision is for 2023, but that would be 4 out of 5 years outside Scotland, and Scotland has half of the 10 courses in the rota, which could create future scheduling problems.

Very political situation that the R&A is going to have to sort out.

 

[Say Hey Kid]

Brooks again!

Agreed. Brooks for the win.

 

[BluesOne31]

I’m going to pick Rahm.

I’m glad one of the top names said this. The 2019 schedule is horrible for golf.

Justin Rose says having four majors in four months is not good for golf

I don’t like it as well. Everything gets jammed into 3 months. The non-major events this year have been weak.

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

I’m going to pick Rahm.

I’m glad one of the top names said this. The 2019 schedule is horrible for golf.

Justin Rose says having four majors in four months is not good for golf

Jon Rahm Is Winning At A Historic Rate. He Just Hasn’t Won A Major Yet.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Rory with a quad on 1! +5 through 6!

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Why does the European Tour still live in the stone age? Would shot-tracker for the Open be that expensive?

 

[Cody Webster]

Brooks almost chips in for eagle on 2. Just give him the jug

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I like these playing conditions. Three more rounds of this please.

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

God Rory was probably so jacked up for that tee shot on 1 and just about ruins his Open chances in one hole.

Golf, man.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Big Brooks on the move.

 

[Cody Webster]

Big Brooks on the move.

The sky is blue

Gotta love Duval putting up a 13 & an 8 today.

 

[Cody Webster]

f***ing Rory lol

Great par save by the man on 1!

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Rory with a 79. Ouch

 

[Dakota Sioux]

The sky is blue

Gotta love Duval putting up a 13 & an 8 today.

Couldn’t happen to a better guy

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

oof rory

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

The Open always provides some interesting day 1 leaderboards.

 

[Zibanejbread]

Go Dustin

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

looks like a course where u can have a great round going and then make a triple on one hole and its all for nuffin

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Have they showed a shot of Koepka in the last hour?

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Have they showed a shot of Koepka in the last hour?

But have shown everyone of Tigers basically

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Koepka is now one shot off the lead.

I thought maybe we could enjoy a major without him in contention, but it looks like he'll take the lead after one.