The Open: final scoreboard here.
While both Corey Connors and MacKenzie Hughes began their final rounds at Royal St George's with 2 bogey's and received some poorly advised criticism, the truth is Mac's 69 -8 T6 and Corey's 73,-5 T15 were fabulous results, and even better learning experiences as these Canadians stars continue to rise.
Experiences that are about to continue as they get on a plane for Tokyo in a week to represent Canada at the made for TV Olympics.
Mac, now 30, summed up his week like this, "I would have loved to play a bit better over the last 2 days, but overall I am pretty pleased with my efforts. Remember earlier this year he lost a close match in the round of 16 to Sergio in the WGC World Match Play, and after being tied for the lead at the US Open after 3 rounds, ended up T15. He now has a world ranking of 53rd.
Listen to what 29 year old Corey had to say after 3 bogey's on his last nine left him 3 over. " There was definitely some nerves out there today, I just plugged away and stayed patient. It was more of a battle than I'd hoped for, it was a good learning experience"
After a great run on the Florida swing, a T8 at Augusta, T17 at the PGA Championship, now T15 at the Open are all solid confidence builders, playing with the lead at times, falling just short all bode well for this young Canadian whose is now ranked 36th in the world.
Hughes earned $386,500, Connors $143,063 while Collin Morikawa took home just over $2m for his 2 stroke win. Morikawa is a joy to watch, getting the absolute most out of his small stature, and as important has a demeanor that prompted Lorne Rubenstein to tweet " Watching Collin Morikawa makes me wish I was back to writing in the paper about golf again, graceful in his play, generous in his remarks"
This week the PGA Tour stops at the 3M Open in Minnesota before the Olympics golf competition begins July 29-August 1 at the Kasumigaseki CC in Saitama, Japan.
ps. Thanks to my old pal Nick Dye from ET Radio for all his audio clips from Mac and and Corey throughout the week at the Open.
Bryan Angus
No comments:
Post a Comment