The Open Championship.. Sunday final scoreboard here.
I tweeted earlier the I "dreaded someone was going to shoot 59" on the Old Course in the weekend's benign weather, but as it turned out the fast and firm fairways and the ancient greens stood the test of time.
Even with the latest equipment and talent driving some of the revered par 4's included, you've never seen so many guys having to make 80 foot lag putts after approaching with short irons in their hands.
Sunday with an overcast start turned out to be a 4 horse race by the final nine
Rory could have won it, but too many pars for -2 70 sees him finish T3. Victor Hovland just couldn't make enough birdies either, finishing T4 after his 74 . American Cameron Young did everything he could and certainly deserved it if he had won, finishing 2nd -19 with a terrific 65
In the end it was the other Cameron, Aussie Cameron Smith who simply went out after beginning the day 4 shots off the lead and made 5 straight birdies on the tough back nine for -6 30 coming home for a record tying Open score of -20 after posting -8 64.
He is the Championship Golfer of the Year"....67 64 73 64 268 -20 the winning score....
"He's is a triple threat, he drives it, he wedges it and he putts it" said Paul Azinger.
"This week my driver felt pretty good, and today all the putts were going in" said the media shy little Aussie, adding " This one's for Oz "(Australia) after being reminded the last Aussie to win was 28 years ago.
For me I didn't want this 150th Open to end, it was compelling theatre, every shot had an uncertain ending, from the pounding drives that ran on and on, many times into the famously named fairway bunkers, or onto the huge double greens with all their humps and hollows.
Throw in the romance of the old grey town, a cast of "villain's" from the LIV ranks, with apparently more to follow, it was a worthy chapter in the vaunted history of the Open..
Bryan Angus
PS. Corey Connors finished T28 -8 after a closing -5 67.
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