R&A.. The Open Leaderboard
In track and field the 'rabbit' is a runner who is not as talented as the big stars coming on late to win the race, who takes an enormous lead and hopes to hold on.
The rabbit runs so fast in the mile, he/she is 30 yards ahead after the 3rd, and 20 yards ahead at the final bell. It is usually humanly impossible for him//her to have enough oxygen to stay ahead by the finish line.
Brian Harman 67 65 -10 was the rabbit this week...5 shots ahead after 2 sunny days, with 2 days of rain ahead
edit***Tonight in rain soaked Liverpool, in fact Hoylake, fans annointed the 5'7 American lefty journeyman to the glorious ranks of the Champion Golfer of the Year.. such is the story of the Open. 67 65 69 70 -13.... 6 shots clear..
edit ***He may well be the least popular American winner since Stewart Cink snatched the championship at Turnberry from nearly 60 year old Tom Watson in 2009, but that wouldn't be fair to Harman because Scottie, Rory, Big Jon, Justin's, Rosey etal could not catch him.
“Yeah, I'm over the moon,” he said. “It was a tough last three days, really was. Being able to get some sleep was big last night. Sleeping on a lead like that is really difficult, so glad of the way I hung in there the last couple days.
“Got off to a bad start both days and turned it around,” he added, “so really happy with that.”
The Open was his third TOUR triumph and first since the 2017 Wells Fargo Championship. Harman’s first win came in the 2014 John Deere Classic, which earned him a last-minute invite to his first Open Championship, at Royal Liverpool of all places. That year he teed off late Friday, finished after 10 p.m., made the cut and fell in love with links golf.
Harman, who came into the week 39th in Strokes Gained: Putting, added a big third by putting lights-out at Royal Liverpool. Through 54 holes he was 44-for-44 from inside 10 feet.
He had made 55 straight by the time he finally missed from inside 10 feet to bogey the par-3 13th hole. Hardly panicked, he birdied 14 and 15 to go up by five again and all but end it. Ho, hum.
Not surprisingly, he was first in SG: Putting (+11.57) for the week.
With the victory, Harman moved to sixth in the FedEx Cup and 10th in the world ranking.
worth $3,000,000 ..600 Fed Ex Points...lifetime at the Open..
edit** Canadian.. Corey Conners T52 73 71 68 76 +4 ($43,433.00) What a great week for Harman and his family.. perhaps a dull thud for the rest of us,,
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Bryan Angus (edit)
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