Golf: 151st Open Championship - Royal Liverpool Golf Club - Hoylake, England

[GKJ]

Harman gets one back

 

[Filthy Dangles]

f***ing guy….makes a 13 footer

 

[Mr Rogers]

That’s so Rory to start like that and then just completely lose all that steam. Another backdoor T5 in store probably haha.

 

[Canes]

Harman -12 now. This one is over.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Tough scene.

 

[MVP of West Hollywd]

Back to back Harman birdies is painful

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Unbelievable

 

[GKJ]

Unless Harman slips and breaks his leg, this over

 

[MVP of West Hollywd]

Brian Harman can I introduce you to my friend the wall of a deep bunker

 

[Mr Rogers]

So maybe 10th times the charm for Rors haha. so anticlimactic, thought this was his best chance in a while and there've been some good ones

 

[MVP of West Hollywd]

God dammit

 

[GKJ]

Tommy Fleetwood hitting balls from interesting places right now

 

[GKJ]

Damn, this has been a shitty year of Sundays at majors

 

[Our Lady Peace]

Nice to see Jason Day come out with a T2 here and having been playing back to form

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Yeah, this was a top 3 or 4 most boring major I've ever watched.

Good for Brian Harman, but he's right near the bottom amongst major winners. At least with Wyndham Clark, there's a clear and dramatic improvement in form this year leading up to his win, which gives some hope that he'll be a top player moving forward. Not the case for Harman, who just got white-hot at the right time. And he just doesn't hit the ball far enough to contend consistently, anyway. Tough.

 

[GKJ]

Harman is winning with the basics of links golf that allows guys like him to contend, especially here. Don't hit bunkers and don't 3-putt.

Until right now I guess

 

[GKJ]

If Harman forgets to sign his scorecard, there will be a 4-way playoff

 

[PanthersPens62]

This would have been such a compelling Sunday had Harman not done what he did. All those big names at -7 & -6. Soon as the wind disappeared I knew there was no hope.

 

[Mr Rogers]

Last years majors put this year’s to shame. PGA was prob the best and I’m not even a brooks fan

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Didn’t expect to enjoy LACC more then the Open but this championship made LACC exciting in retrospect

 

[GKJ]

NBC coverage didn't even make it to 2:00

 

[Filthy Dangles]

NBC coverage didn't even make it to 2:00

Give them a break…they had to cut to the IndyCar pre race show

 

[GKJ]

Give them a break…they had to cut to the IndyCar pre race show

But they were scheduled until 2.

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that from sports coverage.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

But they were scheduled until 2.

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that from sports coverage.

Same, my comment was in jest too

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Harman is the fluke major winner we all worry about. He’s not the worst of the past 25 years. I think he’s better than like a Micheel and Beem, but I think you can fairly say he’s the worst of the last 10 years and you have to go back to the 2009 PGA with YE Yang to find a guy you could fairly assert is worse. He’s not awful, he’s just like the 45th best golfer in the world and you hate to see those guys win majors with there being only 4 per year and as @Dr John Carlson mentioned, he has essentially no upward mobility. Clark probably has a worse record to this point, but I think he’ll at least pass Harman over the rest of their careers because he has more long-term ability. Harman is a career journeyman that had the week of his career. You hate to see it, but well, we were due for one of these major winners and it makes it doubly worse that the last two of 2023 (and for 8 1/2 months) are two guys that are two of the weaker major winners you’ll see in the current era, if not the two weakest.