Golf: 150th Open Championship - July 14-17

[Pavel Buchnevich]

The venue is The Old Course at St Andrews. The defending champion is Collin Morikawa. The Old Course has hosted the Open 29 times. It hosted most recently in 2015, which was won by Zach Johnson.

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[Raging Bull]

Cantlay would be a good bet. Coming off starts of T3, T14, T13, T4. Obviously Xander is hot too.

 

[Our Lady Peace]

I see Schauffele, Smith, Lowry in contention

and Tiger

but that would be cool

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Last two Opens at St. Andrews were pretty weak winners for this course. Are we getting three in a row? Go back through the history of this course, and three in a row that aren't top 10-15 players of all time hasn't happened since the first few editions. Those weren't drawing the best golfers in the world, so it essentially hasn't happened ever. I'll go with history on this one. This is a course that historically yields the best champions of the sport.

That means we are probably down to Tiger, Phil, Rory, Jordan, Brooks, JT, DJ, Rahm, Scheffler, Morikawa, Bryson. You could throw one or two others in there and it's very possible a bunch of these guys never get to that status at sometime in their career, but I think all those guys would be considered as having somewhat realistic chances at that.

Tiger and Phil aren't happening. Not good enough anymore. The LIV guys, I could be wrong, but I don't see any of them contending. None of them are even in good form this year, so I think Brooks, DJ, and Bryson are out. Morikawa's form tells us he's out. He's been bad this year. Doubt he finds it this week.

That leaves us with Rory, Jordan, JT, Rahm, and Scheffler. While I wouldn't rule out any of the latter three, I think it'll more likely be one of the first two. Those would be my main picks. I'm biased, but I think Jordan's the favorite to win this week. Threw away last week's event and also last year's Open. Could say he threw away the last Open at this course also. All of this evens out, so I think it's probably his week. This is another great shot for Rory though.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Personally, I've got Big Brooks here.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Yeah I don't have Brooks here btw. Putting seems to matter more on these gigantic greens, so I'll take Cam Smith.

 

[Prntscrn]

Poulter getting boo'd and follows it up by almost snap hooking it OB on 1st is beautiful, and that fairway is wiiide

 

[Brunkmeister]

Happy to see Rory play some fine golf out there.

 

[Mr Rogers]

Ernie near the top of a leaderboard. Now that’s something I haven’t seen for a while lol (I don’t watch champions tour)

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

Had Rory to lead after round 1 at 23-1, f*** you Cam Young lol.

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Not the start Tiger wanted. Yuck

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

6 hour rounds. Needs to be a maximum of about 100 in these Opens at St. Andrews.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

 

[MVP of West Hollywd]

I think Mcilroy finally comes through this time

 

[Dr John Carlson]

6 hour rounds. Needs to be a maximum of about 100 in these Opens at St. Andrews.

Yeah, the late/early draw feels like a huge disadvantage because of this, even if the weather is no different from the early/late.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

It was more than 6. I underestimated what I thought could be an overestimate. More like 6:20. Tough to watch.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

They apologized for the same thing one hole earlier. It was hilarious to watch.

 

[Our Lady Peace]

Cam Young is so good. Taking the page out of Zalatoris' book and stepping into majors playing lights out. Something in the water at Wake Forest University apparently.

 

[Our Lady Peace]

Cam Young is so good. Taking the page out of Zalatoris' book and stepping into majors playing lights out. Something in the water at Wake Forest University apparently.

Welp, turns out his T3 at Southern Hills is his only cut made in his career at majors

Beautiful swing though

The ingenious idea Cameron Young's dad used to create one of golf's best swings

Cameron Young has one of the best swings in golf, and he seized the early lead at the 2022 Open Championship

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[Pavel Buchnevich]

The shot tracker for the Open is in the Stone Age.

 

[GKJ]

Naming my kid Cameron so they can take me to St. Andrew’s one day

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Cameron Smith is having himself quite the day. -8 after 14 and -13 for the tourney and leads by 3 over the other Cameron

 

[Canes]

Rooting for Cameron Smith, he has been playing some great golf this year.

 

[GKJ]

Looks like an interesting shot coming up from inside a bush

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Cam Smith gained 6.21 strokes putting in that second round. He was positive in everything else, but only 1.71 tee to green. Incredible putting round.