Looking forward to this as always. The last two Opens have been exceptional in terms of last-day swings of fortune and worthy champion golfers, so it's more futile than ever to predict a winner. I'd like to see Rory McIlroy win, only to see him have to eat his words about 'never being able to play links golf'. Ian Poulter will one day win the bloody thing, maybe this year. And Gangster Octopus's 'unknown yank' this week could be Jordan Spieth.
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The return of Tiger Woods is a fascinating feature of this Open, even assuming he won't be troubling the leaderboard. But then, he won the last Open played at Liverpool, in 2006, when his final round was a lesson in precision golf - with the winds blowing, he never used his, ehm, woods, in the whole round, teeing off with irons on every hole. He was in regulation for 17 of the 18 holes. Not a chance we'll see golf like that from Tiger this time around. Or ever again, sadly.
I'll wait til the first round is over before placing my bets.
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I'm going tomorrow, and poignantly it will be the first time I've seen my Dad in 2014. Aaah, and all that.
This is seriously fronting up to be the Woods v McIlroy Open everyone was predicting about three years ago, before they both discovered girls.
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I'm still backing Mickelson, even though he's sadly out of form this year. His 18th hole yesterday was vintage Phil - wayward drive out of bounds, 2 buggy rides, miracle chip into orbit and an up and down from the rough 80 yards o
If I were you, Rogin, there's only one group to follow this morning.
If I were a betting man, I'd get my money on Adam Scott as soon as possible.
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Apparently Scott adjusted his schedule so that he turned up in Liverpool two weeks early, and has spent his time playing the course, talking to members about its features and scrupulously plotting his way round.
In the Nicklaus style, it seems.
Headr all this on radio yesterday.
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Blasting the flags day, today. I'm stupidly sunburnt.
Hoylake is a daft course in terms of its layout - it's certainly not your "9 out, 9 in" you expect from a links course. The 18th isn't even in front of the clubhouse, that's the 2nd.
Still, thoughts from today: 1)McIlroy really has this to to lose, as long as he doesn't go mad. He whipped his driver out on 16, FFS, when he had no reason to do so (okay, he then stuffed it into a bunker), but he's clearly having fun.
2)Tiger Woods just doesn't look like he's enjoying playing the game at the moment. And his crowd is about 75% down on previous Opens I've been to.
3) Ian Poulter did - probably just for me - turn up dressed like Rupert Bear. Did he make the cut?
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Northern Ireland has three of the top twelve on tonight's leaderboard; as many as the US of A. I don't think anyone punches so far above their weight like this in a global sport except possibly Switzerland in the men's tennis.
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We went from a tie for the lead between McIlroy & Fowler to McIlroy enjoying a six-shot lead in the space of an hour. The fluctuating nature of golf and it's scoring patterns always enthrals me.
I have an each-way bet on Robert Karlsson, so that will keep me entertained tomorrow. Assuming the Claret Jug is already decided, of course.
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Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote: Northern Ireland has three of the top twelve on tonight's leaderboard; as many as the US of A. I don't think anyone punches so far above their weight like this in a global sport except possibly Switzerland in the men's tennis
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The Beeb are making much of the fact that, if Rory wins, he'll be only the third player in history to win three different majors by the age of 25 (the others being Nicklaus and Woods).
If he hadn't cocked up the 2011 Masters, he could have been about to complete a career Grand Slam.
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Calvert wrote: God, no.
He's going to win this, isn't he?
There's the TV & radio off for the next few days.
Goftwats galore proclaiming McIlroy a 'hero'
Rickie Fowler looks like he should be called Bubba
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