TROON, Scotland — The 152nd Open, the final main championship of the season in males’s golf, tees off Thursday at Royal Troon Golf Course on Scotland’s west coast.
It is the final likelihood this season to win a serious championship — the tournaments that separate legendary golfers from everybody else.
For Masters winner Scottie Scheffler, PGA Championship winner Xander Schauffele and U.S. Open winner Bryson DeChambeau, it is an opportunity so as to add a second title to an already outstanding season.
For Rory McIlroy, it is yet another alternative to finish a virtually decade-long drought with no victory within the huge 4.
“It is laborious to elucidate and it sounds unfavourable, nevertheless it’s like, ‘If I do not win this, it is one other yr with no main,'” stated two-time PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas. “It is simply the unlucky actuality. We solely get 4 tries in a yr. After which as soon as it is achieved, all proper, obtained to attend till subsequent yr.”
Here’s a nearer have a look at the golfers in The Open area, from the legit contenders, darkish horses, previous champions and amateurs.
Bounce to a bit:
The fellows who can win
If every part goes proper
Hey, miracles occur
Comfortable to make the lower
Previous champions
Amateurs
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