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day of the Open Championship. On of the great days in any sporting | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
summer. Rory McIlroy has a firm grip on the Championship. A six shot | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
lead. He is trying to make history by becoming the first European | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
golfer to win three of the four Majors. Will this be a lap of honour | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
or will Hoylake provide a sting in the tail? He has 2.5 hours before he | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
tees off. Ahead of him are Edoardo Molinari, Victor Dubuisson, then at | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
half past two it will be Sergio Garcia. Then Rory McIlroy will | :01:15. | :01:28. | |
half past two it will be Sergio off with Rickie Fowler. Rickie | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
Fowler will be giving chase. He has known Rory for many years. Those are | :01:40. | :01:51. | |
the colours of his Oklahoma State University. He always wears orange | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
on the final day. It is one of the predictable things about final day, | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
along with red for Tiger Woods. Nobody making indentations into the | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
advantage. Play began at 8:35 a.m.. There are only a handful of players | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
who might think they can get close today. Only five within nine sharks | :02:17. | :02:28. | |
and ten within ten. Jim Furyk, who had a very good finish, is tied for | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
fourth. That is the situation, going back out onto the links. Peter, | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
Hoylake is a place he knows very well. Here is Phil Mickelson. | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
Looking up the fairway to the green at the far end and hoping for good | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
things to start happening Done well, a canny shot. That was a | :02:58. | :03:33. | |
very good muscle borough run-up. I like that. That was beautifully | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
done. like that. That was beautifully | :03:36. | :03:56. | |
68, 70, 75. Both these guys dropped away yesterday. Got a | :03:57. | :04:20. | |
Bunkers scattered around this first full. No messing about, straight out | :04:21. | :04:40. | |
with the big one. I know that George has been very successful. I thought | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
he might have moved up a peg or two. He looks a good player to me. | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
He gets the mental aspect of the game sorted, I don't see anything | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
He gets the mental aspect of the stopping him from being a very good | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
player. You may have been with us earlier to see Dan Walker with our | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
members of the service personnel, coming back and being introduced to | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
the game of golf. Anyone living in Oxfordshire, at the Oxfordshire golf | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
club, on August four there is a spinal injuries celebrity golf day. | :05:27. | :05:40. | |
He looks pretty embarrassed. Anyway, they do tremendous work for spinal | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
injuries. There is a golf they August four. -- a golf day. Did not | :05:46. | :05:58. | |
quite match the approach of Phil Mickelson. If you players will be | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
edging towards the left side. That is beautifully done. Both started | :06:08. | :06:22. | |
with par. There is expectancy about the links because of the situation, | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
home-grown player in the league, young name is not 1 million miles | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
behind, although, are they really out of touch? Can Rory go quietly | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
and firmly about his business? You can sense it in the air, something | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
big may happen. I'm told he uses a claw grip | :06:44. | :07:09. | |
sometimes on faster greens. He uses his conventional grip. I'm wondering | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
if he tests the greens with his own personal metre. Zach Johnson, | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
playing with Luke Donald. He and Luke Donald have struck some | :07:25. | :07:39. | |
very fine shots on the 23 holes we have seen them on today. -- two or | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
three. Could not wish for a nice day for golf either seaside -- nice day | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
for golf by the seaside. He is on the right side of the | :07:55. | :08:11. | |
fairway, not the best angle for the pin. He's got to come over the | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
traps. Still a beautiful rhythm. Has | :08:14. | :08:38. | |
changed his swing. Not a whole heap of difference. Tom Watson walking | :08:39. | :08:54. | |
up, 3-under for the day. 2-over for the Championship. Brilliant | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
performance. He will be for the senior British Open next week. Colin | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Montgomerie will be there. I will be playing as well but I would not | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
recommend watching me. It is a delightful course. This is where my | :09:16. | :09:28. | |
father started. Great applause for Tom. Why not, they love him. | :09:29. | :10:15. | |
The grandstands will be fool later in the day. Pretty lacklustre day | :10:16. | :10:30. | |
for Tiger Woods. For over for the day. | :10:31. | :10:59. | |
Struggled yesterday but managed to keep it to 75. You come. Beautiful | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
shot. You can see the grandstands are not | :11:04. | :11:19. | |
full up by any means, but it goes and seek there, it looks more but | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
that is about it. This fella looks as if he hits it | :11:22. | :11:56. | |
very hard and the ball does not go anywhere. | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
And look at that. Do you think he knows the world of golf is looking | :12:06. | :12:15. | |
at him? We will look at Luke Donald instead. | :12:16. | :12:38. | |
Quite hard work for Luke Donald at the moment. Ryan Palmer and Jamie | :12:39. | :13:04. | |
Mcleary have both scored 70. His final hole... | :13:05. | :13:19. | |
I hope there will be some love and affection for this man. | :13:20. | :13:40. | |
Peter Thomson and Tom Watson, both won this Championship five times. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
Thought he was going to do it at Turnberry a year or two back, was | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
not to be. That was some round of his last year | :13:49. | :14:24. | |
to win the open on the Sunday. Magnificent golf. | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
Go and have a look at Tom. This is not his favourite shot. But we don't | :14:33. | :14:55. | |
want any miscues. There will not be any better round of golf played | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
today than that, 68. Only one dropped at the 1st. | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
today than that, 68. Only one would be very happy to tuck that | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
today than that, 68. Only one away and sit at home and put his | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
slippers up. Wonderful round of golf. I bet | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
slippers up. Wonderful round of that, playing with him. He is on 71, | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
losing out to the master. It is amazing, a modern master of links | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
golf. He used to love to go to the west coast of Ireland and practice | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
prior to the opens. A couple of yards short. One of the | :15:37. | :15:52. | |
easier holes today. Good start. Nice start, a better | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
start. What around for uncle Tom. Fantastic | :16:04. | :16:26. | |
performance. -- what a round. Bo Peep the first but got five birdies. | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
-- got a bogey on the first. Still going strong at 64. He will be | :16:30. | :16:43. | |
back next year for St Andrews. The arrival of Dustin Johnson. These | :16:44. | :17:02. | |
cars pick the players up from where they are staying. He looks as though | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
he's leaving tonight. Plenty of luggage in there. Maybe a private | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
jet. These private jets whisked them everywhere. | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
Unusual to see a player carrying his own luggage. | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
The pin on the fourth is in a very accessible position, should be some | :17:33. | :17:55. | |
birdies. Not really tucked away, players can be aggressive. | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
High hopes that really struggled, the litmus test of the game is | :18:05. | :18:51. | |
always the driving. Jason Dufner has scored if you nice | :18:52. | :19:48. | |
ones today. -- are few. That was 1-over. He has got three more since | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
that. He has changed the game. Final | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
pairing goes out at 2:20 p.m.. Zach Johnson, amazing week last | :19:58. | :21:16. | |
year. Zach Johnson hunting his opponents down on the final holes. | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
That will see him at the Ryder Cup. We have caught up with Justin Rose. | :21:22. | :21:55. | |
It has not been a bad week for you. You would have wanted better. Still | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
in contention for a big finish? There is always something to play | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
for. Rory put it to bed with that strong finish, and made guys like me | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
in the chasing pack, just stretched it out too far for us. It has been a | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
good week. Have played well. Just have not had that hot run. Would be | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
nice to finish strong today. What are the chances of getting a run | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
that might scare him? I think there is a scorer out there. If you played | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
a great round of golf you could shoot 64. I don't know that would | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
get me to, 13-under. He still needs to stand up and play golf, but he | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
has a sizeable lead and is playing well and with his sort of power, he | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
can take care of par-5 holes and make mistakes and still win. | :22:53. | :23:23. | |
71, 74, 68 for Chris Kirk. You would think this would suit Chris Kirk. | :23:24. | :24:33. | |
He is on the cusp of making the Ryder Cup team. | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
In a couple of hours, this opening hole will be very important for | :24:42. | :24:58. | |
Rory. Very demanding. Phil Mickelson has taken a tight line down the | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
left-hand side. He is just picking his line off that TV tower. That is | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
the back of the middle of the green. The wind is slightly off the right. | :25:09. | :25:27. | |
Going to try and slide one, as if he can get through the gap. | :25:28. | :25:45. | |
Probably went a little further than that. | :25:46. | :25:57. | |
The South African. He was on the wrong side of the draw this week. | :25:58. | :26:10. | |
Got that 69 on Friday, in the worst conditions of the day. | :26:11. | :26:36. | |
The Asian players are starting to move up the world rankings. | :26:37. | :26:56. | |
That is one of the top ten places to see birds, lovely spot. | :26:57. | :27:14. | |
Francesco Molinari and George Coetzee off to a start. | :27:15. | :27:40. | |
First three holes often don't give much away. | :27:41. | :27:55. | |
Been in Europe for three weeks. Enjoyed Paris. | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
Somebody quoted him saying, if they take away this long putt I will need | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
to give the game up. Everybody is trying to say that. Get that pushed | :28:11. | :28:17. | |
back from 2016. With the breeze today, playing from | :28:18. | :28:41. | |
the right. The tee shot is a little safer. You can see the clouds owing | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
across the fairway. Career goals appear of shoes like | :28:48. | :29:31. | |
that? Using gardening. That was fortunate. -- have you got a pair of | :29:32. | :29:45. | |
shoes like that? I use them for gardening. | :29:46. | :29:55. | |
He makes some of those shots look a little bit too easy. He can still | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
get the ball to release and he is a demon chipper. He got off to a nice | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
start. It is still a good week. Any time | :30:10. | :30:39. | |
you finish after four days of a major Championship and be on | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
you finish after four days of a You remember it if you get to | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
arrange. -- if you get to arrange. There are four groups that have | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
finished and they have all been at par. | :30:57. | :31:13. | |
After the opening 69, we all thought, could it be? | :31:14. | :31:37. | |
After the opening 69, we all with the legend. Very well played | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
once again. What do you ever tire of that walk up 18 and a marvellous | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
reception? It is an honour, especially at my age, to get an | :31:51. | :31:58. | |
ovation like that. I'd take it very seriously to play my best golf. I | :31:59. | :32:07. | |
played very well today. It is maybe something of years to come. Your | :32:08. | :32:15. | |
record is remarkable, you are a five-time champion. In your latter | :32:16. | :32:22. | |
years you have had remarkable consistency and have had quality of | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
other great champions have not been able to do so in their 50s and 60s. | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
What is the secret? There is no secret. There is a lot of that I | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
have of this way of playing. I put spin on the ball and get it moving | :32:40. | :32:48. | |
around. The distance is not there. I am playing knuckleball is out there | :32:49. | :32:51. | |
will be other people are sending its way up in the air. The key factor in | :32:52. | :33:02. | |
links golf is to get the right distance. Most of the green is that | :33:03. | :33:18. | |
we play our flat. -- that we play. If Rory McIlroy winds of this title | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
he will be free quarters of the way to the grand slam at 25. His father | :33:22. | :33:32. | |
will make a lot of money on his bet. I like the confidence he had when he | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
was 15. That is a good story. He is playing good golf and he has put it | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
together for three rounds. The golf courses out there for the taking as | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
all links courses are. There are always landmines out there and you | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
have to avoid them. I am sure the merits will be tight with him today. | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
Six shot lead, they can afford to make mistakes. -- nerves. | :33:59. | :34:15. | |
He got three from the grand slam. He nearly got them all but he was | :34:16. | :34:16. | |
beaten in a play-off. Lovely start, nice body at the 5th | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
for Phil Mickleson. It almost looks like his hands are | :34:24. | :34:53. | |
behind the ball, or at least level with it. The hands are slightly | :34:54. | :35:00. | |
behind but it does keep them in the same position. It is difficult to | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
copy. Luke Donald has a more conventional | :35:05. | :35:20. | |
stroke. Free Mac par fives on the homeward nine. -- three. He can | :35:21. | :35:31. | |
salvage some pride. Very pleasant and therefore playing and | :35:32. | :35:32. | |
spectating. With all that rain last night, | :35:33. | :35:49. | |
an inch, it could be a lot further forward. A lot of the rain fell in | :35:50. | :36:05. | |
about 25 minutes. The RNA made the right decision. Slightly elevated | :36:06. | :36:13. | |
tee and some players have a full look at this green. He will have to | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
land it on the bottom tier and hope it will check up. -- kick up. | :36:20. | :37:00. | |
It sat up and he did not get it running. | :37:01. | :37:25. | |
APPLAUSE Very awkward to get out of that 17th | :37:26. | :37:40. | |
ten. It was not very deep so it was a good approach for Tiger Woods. He | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
may take some positives out of that. His back has stood up for 72 holes. | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
He has been a reasonably competitive. | :37:50. | :38:05. | |
As Tom Watson said, it is relatively flat on the green. Are you scared of | :38:06. | :38:22. | |
heights? I know I could not get up there. | :38:23. | :38:34. | |
That has to be 60 feet up. Is he strapped them? Health and safety, he | :38:35. | :38:44. | |
is probably strapped in everywhere. He probably has got a deck of cards. | :38:45. | :38:53. | |
There are three cameras up there. He missed just about all of these | :38:54. | :39:06. | |
yesterday but that is better. There are a few birdies on that | :39:07. | :40:06. | |
card. It is possible. Eight birdies and a round of 67. Super effort. | :40:07. | :40:34. | |
That was amazing. It but -- it did not move at all. The green on the | :40:35. | :40:48. | |
links is very honest. They look like they were starting to Tom Brown on | :40:49. | :40:51. | |
Thursday and we felt they could become farm. -- to turn brown. | :40:52. | :41:19. | |
They work at twice last night and then cut three times this morning. | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
Did they add starch? Yet is Darren Clarke on the range. | :41:25. | :42:03. | |
We spoke to you earlier this week and you said you were not getting | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
results, but you are now. I played better. I made some putts which was | :42:08. | :42:14. | |
nice. Today will be a different day and there will be a different wind | :42:15. | :42:21. | |
direction. The holes will be completely different. Can anyone | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
catch Rory? They will have to play very well. You will never know what | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
will happen with links. Good luck today. There is a black ribbon for | :42:30. | :42:39. | |
Bob Collins, the late Bob Torrance. It has been a good tribute from the | :42:40. | :42:48. | |
players, and a tribute to his son Sam Torrance will be the Ryder Cup | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
captain. He was loved by everybody on the Tour. He was an outstanding | :42:56. | :42:57. | |
teacher. Phil Mickleson has used the driver a | :42:58. | :43:40. | |
lot more today. There are no cost dishes in the | :43:41. | :44:08. | |
middle of the fairway. That was a belter. -- gorse bushes. This could | :44:09. | :44:21. | |
be a driving competition. I think Phil Mickleson has courted | :44:22. | :44:56. | |
by a yard. Those were two cracking prize. Number seven is the hardest | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
hole. It is a little bit easier today because of where the wind is | :45:01. | :45:02. | |
coming from. Runner-up last week. I was very impressed how imperfect | :45:03. | :45:30. | |
-- how aggressive he was last week at Aberdeen. He did not give an | :45:31. | :45:44. | |
inch. Here comes Adam Scott. Top golfer in the world. Steve Williams | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
is his caddy. That gets a nice little hop forward | :45:51. | :46:35. | |
standards was nearly perfect. -- hop forwards. The horses can seem to | :46:36. | :46:43. | |
make up their mind. It is my time to ride so you get. | :46:44. | :46:55. | |
Watch this. It is end. It comes out with speed. We should not laugh | :46:56. | :47:21. | |
because it is painful. That was very bad luck. | :47:22. | :47:43. | |
Jason Dufner has played with him today. He does not miss many | :47:44. | :48:31. | |
fairways. He is two over and Tiger Woods is 6-over. The way he is | :48:32. | :48:41. | |
driving, he looks like he wants to Bordeaux one of his clubs. -- wants | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
to Bordeaux. What has changed since we were | :48:46. | :49:53. | |
here, I was going through the world rankings, would you like to hazard a | :49:54. | :50:00. | |
guess what David Howell was in 2006? He had an exceptional run. I would | :50:01. | :50:08. | |
suggest top 20, top ten. Very good, 10th in the world in 2006. He is | :50:09. | :50:15. | |
making a good recovery because it looked like his career could be over | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
but his putting is coming back. Here it is our leader who has driven | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
himself here. He is looking like a film star. | :50:24. | :50:35. | |
His coach and blue. Some might -- some people might say that he is the | :50:36. | :50:53. | |
heir apparent to Batman. -- to that man. | :50:54. | :51:07. | |
HAZEL IRVINE: our leader has arrived at the core sport has tea-time. -- | :51:08. | :51:20. | |
at the course for his tee off time. Sports scientists are very important | :51:21. | :51:45. | |
here. Let us speak to one. Such a world renowned sports | :51:46. | :51:49. | |
psychologist, Rory McIlroy, what is being made of what he has to go | :51:50. | :51:56. | |
through. What are the dangers? The danger is if he tries too hard and | :51:57. | :52:02. | |
not plays like he has been playing. He will stay in the present moment | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
and play one shot at a time. That is what he knows he has to do. If he | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
does that he will be fine. People sit at home and think that he has a | :52:13. | :52:17. | |
six shot lead, arguably the best in the world, is the danger? Given the | :52:18. | :52:22. | |
conditions it is important he goes out there and plays his game. If he | :52:23. | :52:32. | |
does, he will be under-par today. I do not think he will change his | :52:33. | :52:37. | |
game. The players chasing, what about the approach. They have to go | :52:38. | :52:42. | |
out there because there's nothing to lose and they half to shoot 60. | :52:43. | :52:57. | |
Whatever happens, happens. There's no pressure on them. It is always | :52:58. | :53:06. | |
more of a challenge to get in that mindset when you have got a big | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
lead. Rory has proven in the past that when he gets it going he can | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
run with it. Thank you for your time. | :53:15. | :53:21. | |
He has also looked for time. | :53:22. | :53:23. | |
He has also advice from Jack Nicklaus on many an occasion. He | :53:24. | :53:34. | |
looks very relaxed. He is trying to make sure he does not move his head. | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
That is something that he has done well. He is number one in putting | :53:40. | :53:49. | |
this week. You can see the flags are blowing from left to right. It | :53:50. | :53:51. | |
brings out of bounds into play. He will try to finish on the best | :53:52. | :54:37. | |
zero that he can and that was not it. He looked like he would try to | :54:38. | :54:45. | |
hit a controlled feed and then he was trying to make sure he did not | :54:46. | :54:46. | |
lose it to the right. -- fade. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have | :54:47. | :55:02. | |
really run Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have | :55:03. | :55:14. | |
years. The final group has two 25-year-olds teeing off. Things are | :55:15. | :55:14. | |
changing. Jason Dufner at the 18th and he has | :55:15. | :55:33. | |
also moved it to the left and very nearly hit the coconut. It leaves | :55:34. | :55:47. | |
you a very tough little pitch. The stands on the left and where the | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
Claret jug is not out of bounds but on the right it is. | :55:52. | :56:07. | |
4-under today. Two under for the Championship. | :56:08. | :56:14. | |
Tiger Woods will leave here and now that the there's a lot to work on. | :56:15. | :56:22. | |
The big thing was to be fully healthy. As they come across the | :56:23. | :56:43. | |
crosswalk I am sure they will get a rousing reception. He could be the | :56:44. | :56:51. | |
greatest player ever to walk across a golf course. | :56:52. | :57:24. | |
APPLAUSE I always felt that out of the | :57:25. | :57:31. | |
Majors, the reception on the 18th, the most respectful reception -- | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
respectful reception is and continues to be at the open. It was | :57:36. | :57:37. | |
a nice reception. You can see Once again, no debit. -- divot. | :57:38. | :58:28. | |
Comfortably reaches the par-5. But today's wind direction it should | :58:29. | :58:29. | |
Pretty well done from where he was. play easy. | :58:30. | :58:42. | |
Pretty well done from where he was. There's no shot from the other folk | :58:43. | :58:50. | |
taking a huge risk. Here he comes, Miguel and Gill. He is going to give | :58:51. | :59:00. | |
us his warm up routine. -- Miguel Angel. I love it when he swept his | :59:01. | :59:09. | |
hips. He is 50, the old boy. Is that all? | :59:10. | :00:12. | |
Coming back in his heyday he was one of the best putters in the world. He | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
said he is feeling comfortable again. | :00:18. | :00:55. | |
It has been the story of his week. But he did make the cut. Wasting no | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
time to clean up. He might not have enjoyed the week, | :01:01. | :01:20. | |
but it's good having him back in the picture. | :01:21. | :01:44. | |
He promised a little bit more, Jason Dufner. Eventually round in 71. | :01:45. | :01:58. | |
It will be Jason's turn to defend his PGA title soon. There is the | :01:59. | :02:18. | |
situation. Ten men within ten shots of the lead. In 11 you will see two | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
further Northern Irishman. Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke. Graham | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
will be out in 30 minutes. I wonder what he feels about his chances. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
As the week has gone on, things have got better. What can we expect? | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
Hopefully more of the same. Weather has played a huge part in this | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
tournament so far. The difference in the starts yesterday, the rain, it | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
looked like the RND got it spot on as we had huge downpours from four | :02:57. | :03:07. | |
o'clock. Some of the pins look accessible. It looks like some low | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
numbers are available. Your sparring partner is at the top. Can anyone | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
catch him? He is controlling his own destiny. The finish last night was a | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
statement of intent. He is a class player, no doubt about it. Nobody | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
will be surprised to see him standing there with the Claret jug. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
He has a big day out there. A lot of quality players can get off to a | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
good start. There are possibilities to make a move. Could be | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
interesting. I will try to control my own ball. No doubt Graeme | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
McDowell has a job on TV when he hangs up the clubs. Very eloquent. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Just having a few putts. Getting a feel for the pace of the greens. | :04:04. | :04:15. | |
Well done. His putting has looked very sound. Tidy start for Francesco | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
Molinari. Currently 2-under. It sometimes | :04:26. | :05:04. | |
clambers up the upslope. Currently tied for 34th position. | :05:05. | :05:18. | |
Starting to see a number of birdies. These could get off to a | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
flying start in these opening holes. Thomas Bjorn, chairman of the | :05:25. | :05:40. | |
players committee. Nice birdie at 15, moves to 3-under. | :05:41. | :06:08. | |
Phil Mickelson looks to be a man on a mission. He has had a couple of | :06:09. | :06:18. | |
nice shots. Some very good scoring today. Everybody was under-par in | :06:19. | :06:32. | |
the first five games. Zach Johnson. There is always little dramas that | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
happen. For those who have been watching you will hear that plane | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
overhead. I was talking to the man responsible for the equipment. He | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
says that plane is nothing to do with them, it is crackling all the | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
electrical stuff. We might have a fighter squadron come down from | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
Lossiemouth and chase him away. The He's got to 5-under. Very solid | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
everybody else is on the He's got to 5-under. Very solid | :07:03. | :07:21. | |
start. George Coetzee, also on the sixth. | :07:22. | :08:18. | |
It will gather. Scoring is looking like yesterday, plenty of birdies on | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
the front nine. like yesterday, plenty of birdies on | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
line looks more difficult. -- we've been referring to next | :08:27. | :10:09. | |
week, the senior Championship. I am reminded of another senior | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Championship, the use to have tournament there. I played in the | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Championship there. Interestingly, the three tournaments have all been | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
won by Ryder Cup captains. It is a very nice course indeed. | :10:27. | :10:39. | |
That is going to allow Phil Mickelson to show his short game | :10:40. | :11:14. | |
skill. Back to the sixth. There are 14 | :11:15. | :11:31. | |
different golf courses on this stretch, and if you are thinking of | :11:32. | :11:42. | |
having a golfing holiday it is a nice part of the world to come. | :11:43. | :11:59. | |
Asking his playing partner where the line was and then avoiding it. David | :12:00. | :12:19. | |
Howell had a reputation for being one of the best at putting in | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
Europe. He's a very good putter. He even | :12:22. | :13:11. | |
rates himself, which is very rare. The number of fallen tears who turn | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
up, it is amazing, they all come out to act as bunker rakers. Sign him | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
up. The volunteers add tremendously to | :13:23. | :13:43. | |
the joy of this Championship. They contribute so much, helping it to | :13:44. | :13:44. | |
run smoothly. Staring at a double on the 1st | :13:45. | :15:12. | |
hole, that is an annoying start to say the least. | :15:13. | :15:42. | |
Delightful card. Thank you for the kind words. Here is Phil Mickelson. | :15:43. | :15:56. | |
and sandwiches. Some people wondering whether they did the right | :15:57. | :16:25. | |
thing yesterday, I can assure you they did. Most of the spectators | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
left without causing any great damage. It was a masterstroke. | :16:33. | :16:59. | |
left without causing any great had not gained people would be | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
asking. It worked out perfectly. It was all well. | :17:07. | :17:18. | |
I wonder what Rory's chances are today. He has about one hour and ten | :17:19. | :17:28. | |
minutes before he tees off alongside Rickie Fowler. It will then be the | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
time for Sergio Garcia and Justin Johnson. -- Dustin Johnson. He knows | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
what it's like to be a runner-up, he has been chatting. You looked | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
comfortable all week. How do you feel about your prospects? Today | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
will have to be special if I want any chance. I need to get off to a | :17:56. | :18:07. | |
good start. He has a commanding lead right now. Need a good start. The | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
first few holes are difficult. See what happens. The wind has been | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
blowing in a different direction. Must you factor that in? You must | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
take each hole as it comes. It will be different today but the golf | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
course is still the same. Rickie Fowler on his way. Hit some | :18:32. | :18:44. | |
balls, get ready for the kick-off. That would get him a very nice check | :18:45. | :19:21. | |
indeed if he is inside the top 25. Marc Warren, fourth shot. | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
458 yards, this opening hole. They last | :19:25. | :19:54. | |
458 yards, this opening hole. They have changed the flow of the holes | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
to accommodate the grandstand. There is Darren Clarke, what is left | :20:01. | :20:32. | |
of Darren Clarke. He had 67 yesterday, played absolutely | :20:33. | :20:33. | |
magnificently. An unlucky opening hole. Never rains | :20:34. | :21:25. | |
but it pours. So many good players from Italy at the moment. | :21:26. | :21:37. | |
It looks like George Coetzee. Seventh. | :21:38. | :21:50. | |
Strong lad, but that has gone left on him. | :21:51. | :22:29. | |
Just makes it that little more difficult. | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
Should be a simple birdie for him. 532 yards, this one. | :22:38. | :23:00. | |
Some courses shorten the fives into very long par-4 courses. The best | :23:01. | :23:14. | |
player will come out on top, which is what is important. | :23:15. | :24:15. | |
He could go home with a very sum of money. That has moved him up | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
to 21st. One more round it could be top 15. | :24:27. | :24:54. | |
All that beer is on the members practice ground, the squared off | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
area. -- equipment is on the members practice ground. | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
They go down to the corner in the far distance and back up again. | :25:12. | :25:48. | |
5-under, even though he had trials and tribulations yesterday. He kept | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
things together after a shocking start. | :25:55. | :26:24. | |
You have used the word fun all week long. How much fun will this be? It | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
is a challenge, being underdog, Rory has been playing well, he is in | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
control of the golf tournament. See if I can go out and make some | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
birdies. How much will you be drawing on the memories of previous | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
tournament? As much as I can. I have been playing well of late, was in | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
the final group at the U.S. been playing well of late, was in | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
another one here. Looking forward to the challenge. Good luck today. | :27:02. | :27:11. | |
Thanks. Phil Mickelson, after that second shot, this is for eagle. | :27:12. | :27:26. | |
Quite quick down there. I was sad to hear Campbell Anderson, who was a | :27:27. | :27:41. | |
professional here for many years, he passed away. | :27:42. | :27:49. | |
He was such a nice and quiet Many years ago, he did not have many | :27:50. | :28:03. | |
golf clubs of this stature with professionals who played the | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
tournament circuit. The expected to stay and look after members and he | :28:09. | :28:09. | |
was one of the best at that. You don't get many of the old pros | :28:10. | :28:35. | |
nowadays. Talking about them, I cannot remember his name but we | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
played an exhibition match and has one claim to fame was he went on a | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
pogo stick from Tunbridge Wells to Piccadilly Circus. Well done. He had | :28:44. | :29:14. | |
the most remarkable workshop. He had a linoleum tot workbench. Everything | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
was laid out. He must've been a nightmare to live with. Everything | :29:20. | :29:21. | |
was immaculate. -- topped. He has really been maturing over the | :29:22. | :29:54. | |
last couple of years. Graeme McDowell now. One of the wonderful | :29:55. | :30:04. | |
group of players from Northern Ireland and the winner of the U.S. | :30:05. | :30:06. | |
Open in a couple of years ago. APPLAUSE | :30:07. | :30:30. | |
The code appreciating these two British players. -- the audience. | :30:31. | :30:40. | |
Both of them are former US open champion. | :30:41. | :30:50. | |
We had a couple of 67 so far. Brandon Todd from the US can you | :30:51. | :31:28. | |
please not take those rapid-fire shots? There have been some problems | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
with cameras. It is a very small piece of clean | :31:34. | :32:02. | |
editors and it will not be easy from that of rough. -- green. I have a | :32:03. | :32:15. | |
charming note from Stephen from near Carlisle, when the man on the first | :32:16. | :32:24. | |
he retires I would like his job. I will put your letter before the | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
various committees that will appear looking for a suitable replacement | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
for either when he retired -- decides to retire. | :32:34. | :32:47. | |
Write down the middle. -- straight down the middle. Everything is | :32:48. | :32:59. | |
pleasant and file. It became Royal in 1871. The Royal clubs is a book | :33:00. | :33:14. | |
that comes out in two weeks time. There are some in Australia and New | :33:15. | :33:16. | |
Zealand. I. -- Indiana. There are no debits splattered | :33:17. | :33:35. | |
around. -- divots. This is what we are hoping to be | :33:36. | :33:58. | |
seen in the not too long from now. Rory McIlroy coming to the first tee | :33:59. | :34:05. | |
with Rickie Fowler. Off they will go in the battle for the opening | :34:06. | :34:13. | |
Championship for 2014. -- for The Open Championship. Big moments. He | :34:14. | :34:19. | |
has already done it a couple of times. Can he do it again? There is | :34:20. | :34:34. | |
a efficient year of DIC innocence about him? You can see the look in | :34:35. | :34:47. | |
his eyes. -- there is a little bit of innocence about Rory McIlroy. | :34:48. | :35:06. | |
It always looks like he is battling a bit of a hook to me. I just have | :35:07. | :35:13. | |
to keep it up if I can. He is playing with Justin Rose. He is a | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
wonderful player. You get the feeling that he is | :35:19. | :35:36. | |
keeping the club face open an online to the target, right through the | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
ball. Graham appears to be fighting a right-hander flick over like a | :35:42. | :35:44. | |
driver table tennis. Two birdies, no bogeys today. That | :35:45. | :36:06. | |
is a safe shot. 5-under lying in 12th position. 11th hole now. | :36:07. | :36:24. | |
He looked to be in trouble but that is a beauty. | :36:25. | :36:41. | |
Phil Mickleson. Not much spin. He played it to the right of the pin | :36:42. | :36:49. | |
where there's more to come back. It is an | :36:50. | :36:56. | |
where there's more to come back. It today. Colin Clark, my former caddy, | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
he is having health problems and I hope it goes well, and I will talk | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
to you soon. Did you have many caddies? Not too many. Some players | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
get through them at an alarming rate of knots. Fall outs or too | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
demanding. When the wind is coming at you from | :37:15. | :37:31. | |
right-to-left, this is a very frightening shot. It will help you | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
out if you click it to the letter. The big square box is where our | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
friends from America have the commentary box. | :37:41. | :37:54. | |
He started it left but isn't coming back? He got away with it and that | :37:55. | :38:10. | |
is not too bad. It is an easy little chip back. If dealers a thing -- if | :38:11. | :38:16. | |
dealers such a thing as an easy chip back. Game 41, from Northern | :38:17. | :38:28. | |
Ireland, Darren Clarke. Ministers see Darren back showing some form. | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
He has been working out and he looks absolutely fantastic. -- nice to see | :38:34. | :38:43. | |
Darren back. His swing has not changed much. He has good tempo. 67 | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
yesterday. Another one of those, please. That looks OK. Not sure. | :38:50. | :39:00. | |
yesterday. Another one of those, He is | :39:01. | :39:21. | |
yesterday. Another one of those, possession. -- tee. I think he came | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
on to during my last year on -- in 2003 and he was a tiny, skinny kid. | :39:26. | :39:34. | |
Probably about 19. But he absolutely launched it. | :39:35. | :39:43. | |
He has powered that in the wrong direction and missed everybody. That | :39:44. | :39:57. | |
frightened the lady. Look out. Very fortunate to find a good life. -- | :39:58. | :40:10. | |
lie. You were correct, he was playing | :40:11. | :40:21. | |
I felt that he had it. The greens are absolutely superb. You can see | :40:22. | :40:29. | |
how splendid the grass is. Well done. We tend to forget about | :40:30. | :41:04. | |
those 12 footers that we managed to sink for parlours. -- pars. | :41:05. | :41:39. | |
The putt is close. That was a good try from 30 feet. | :41:40. | :42:15. | |
5-under. I don't think you could have found a better be for golf by | :42:16. | :42:56. | |
the seaside. -- better be. Nothing has happened there. They have still | :42:57. | :43:06. | |
to play today. The biggest move is Angel Cabrera. | :43:07. | :43:32. | |
Chris Wood could make 65. That would be the lowest round for the week. | :43:33. | :43:43. | |
I think Rory McIlroy will be quite happy to keep his own counsel and | :43:44. | :43:50. | |
get on with the business in hand as far as he's concerned. If he does | :43:51. | :44:00. | |
make the lowest score by a British Bailey and the Championship, due to | :44:01. | :44:07. | |
get a little medal. -- British player in the Championship. | :44:08. | :44:21. | |
There are a lot of players putting from off the green. I fought that | :44:22. | :44:29. | |
would have been ideal for elite chip up with a name iron. -- name iron. | :44:30. | :44:42. | |
He had his tee shot against those railings on the left. He will stop | :44:43. | :44:52. | |
those people crossing over. That is good, that is fine. Too many | :44:53. | :45:01. | |
cooks... That gives him a round of 70, I | :45:02. | :45:30. | |
believe. Level par four Championship. -- level par four the | :45:31. | :45:39. | |
Championship. Lovely contact. Is it online? | :45:40. | :46:07. | |
Between the bunkers. I hope it has for his sake. Sometimes, the back of | :46:08. | :46:17. | |
the bunkers, if the ball drops in, you can not have any backswing. | :46:18. | :46:29. | |
That was for the lowest score of the week. Lovely round of golf. 65. | :46:30. | :46:38. | |
That'll make a few of the challengers frank, if he can do it, | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
I can do it. Four birdies to finish. One dropped shot. Very nice. You do | :46:43. | :46:52. | |
not get golf much better than that. He is currently in 12th position. It | :46:53. | :46:59. | |
would be nice if he gets home. It is down in Bristol. He is from that | :47:00. | :47:02. | |
area but I do not know if he still lives in that neck of the Woods. He | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
might get back before the finish and they could Colin back for the | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
prize-giving, maybe. -- call him back. | :47:13. | :47:26. | |
I have a feeling that the ball was in the bunker and he got it out so | :47:27. | :47:37. | |
this would be his third shot. He looks odds-on to drop a shot. | :47:38. | :48:08. | |
He had the splendid round yesterday with two scores of 67. He had one of | :48:09. | :48:40. | |
them. The man from Moffat. He and his wife used to run a super little | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
hotel there and then he sold it and the town has never been the same | :48:46. | :48:54. | |
again. He was not a bad player. He has been doing this starting, | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
working for companies involved with golf, for many years. He will be | :49:01. | :49:07. | |
missed. The rumours are that he will give it up next year at St Andrews. | :49:08. | :49:14. | |
Game 32, from the USA... 68, 71 and 70 14 Jim Furyk, it adds | :49:15. | :49:40. | |
up to 6-under par. On the key from Sweden, Robert | :49:41. | :50:09. | |
Karlsson. -- the tee. Wind from the right. Not many | :50:10. | :50:27. | |
players have taken drivers today. APPLAUSE | :50:28. | :51:12. | |
Nicely struck. Robert Karlsson has been subpar everyday. They need a | :51:13. | :51:20. | |
special day that occasionally a golfer has. | :51:21. | :51:45. | |
Now -- nicely clipped. There are some player on 8-under on a number | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
that are of a high calibre. Somebody could make the leap from the pack | :51:51. | :51:52. | |
but it is a lonely that needs Nice up foreshadows down for Charl | :51:53. | :52:56. | |
Schwartzel at the Foss. That has added pressure of being ahead, | :52:57. | :52:59. | |
you're expected to win and everybody thinks you should win. After a | :53:00. | :53:12. | |
concert Darren Clarke, let us look at another Northern Irishman, Graeme | :53:13. | :53:14. | |
McDowell. So close, so close. Justin Rose and | :53:15. | :53:49. | |
Graeme McDowell in that period. -- in that couple. | :53:50. | :53:58. | |
That was a par putt for Graeme McDowell salt one shot to go in at | :53:59. | :54:09. | |
the 2nd. -- so that is one shot that has gone. | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
Rory McIlroy on the practice ground, working his way up to the driver. He | :54:16. | :54:26. | |
has driven superbly. It is a deadly weapon for him. When he drives well | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
then his confidence rises. It is a key club in his bag. Interesting his | :54:32. | :54:44. | |
strategy today. He can play conservatively if required. | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
Jim Furyk giving it and one I'd steer on the first. -- one-eyed | :54:51. | :55:04. | |
stare. The second most difficult hole is | :55:05. | :55:17. | |
the first. You have to play defensively because this is one | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
bunker on the left and two bunkers on the right. | :55:22. | :55:31. | |
If you are going to make an error make it to the right of the pin. The | :55:32. | :55:39. | |
perfect line is right on the edge of that TV tower. Write down the throat | :55:40. | :55:50. | |
of the narrow green. His clock is about an inch longer than standard. | :55:51. | :55:57. | |
It would normally make it heavy. It needs to be longer because he is so | :55:58. | :55:59. | |
tall. Jim Furyk and Robert Karlsson in | :56:00. | :56:23. | |
good shape at the 1st. We talked about psychological issues. He used | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
to practice ten foot putts in the middle of the night with his friends | :56:30. | :56:31. | |
screaming at him if he missed. middle of the night with his friends | :56:32. | :56:35. | |
This is for birdie on the first. Just to the left of the clean is the | :56:36. | :57:00. | |
18th green and to the left of that is the first. Fourth to last group. | :57:01. | :57:15. | |
Matteo Manassero and Adam Scott, another man in black. He went out in | :57:16. | :57:29. | |
the morning on the second day and the wind was up. It was an | :57:30. | :57:34. | |
unfortunate draw for Adam Scott and he knew it would be a long way back. | :57:35. | :57:41. | |
Ten shots behind but it has been done. Paul Lawrie came from ten | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
shots behind. You never know with sport and particularly golf. | :57:47. | :57:55. | |
Currently the number one golfer in the world. Born in Adelaide. I first | :57:56. | :58:10. | |
saw him play in Australia in the Greg Norman Invitational. I wandered | :58:11. | :58:20. | |
out to see him play the last three holes. He shot 63. From Australia, | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
Adam Scott. Not only a great player but he is an | :58:25. | :58:47. | |
absolute gentleman, Adam Scott. That was a very late switch. This hole is | :58:48. | :58:50. | |
playing differently because of the wind direction. Is he thinking would | :58:51. | :58:54. | |
back? -- wood. 280 yards and then narrows between | :58:55. | :59:08. | |
the bunkers. It is dedicated to fit one through there -- it is very | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
tight. Parties start of a Jim Furyk. -- had | :59:13. | :01:14. | |
to start. Thomas Bjorn finishing off at the | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
last. Tidy round. They're all going through the | :01:25. | :01:56. | |
routines. They have largely same routines. The same amount of time | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
spent on the putting green. Rickie Fowler in his traditional | :02:00. | :02:12. | |
orange. The most successful Swede on the | :02:13. | :02:58. | |
European Tour. Victor Dubuisson on stepping out | :02:59. | :03:08. | |
there. This is just what they do through | :03:09. | :03:31. | |
the arch and into the arena of the first tee. | :03:32. | :04:13. | |
Matteo Manassero led by five going into the final round... Others have | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
led by five and lost it. Nobody has ever lost a six shot | :04:17. | :04:26. | |
lead. I don't want to be the portent of doom but I'm putting it in | :04:27. | :04:27. | |
context. Was it decent result? It looked a | :04:28. | :04:53. | |
little heavy. It could be a tricky little chip. It captures a fraction | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
of Perth before it hit the ball and it affects the impact. -- fraction | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
of turf. See the direction of the wind, | :05:03. | :05:13. | |
carrying it on. Sometimes the putting green gets a | :05:14. | :05:32. | |
little bit quicker, it dries out a bit more. | :05:33. | :06:01. | |
Please have it on the senior tutor. Jimmy Walker. | :06:02. | :06:14. | |
Playing alongside Marc Leishman. After a blip at the 2nd, turning | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
things around. A very nice approach for Graeme | :06:22. | :06:39. | |
McDowell, this for a birdie. Never easy to judge the distance. | :06:40. | :07:09. | |
It's been a kindly hole throughout the week. He moves to 6-under. | :07:10. | :07:34. | |
Nice little short for Francesco Molinari. His brother is back on the | :07:35. | :07:53. | |
first tee. Eduardo Molinari alongside Victor Dubuisson. | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
Good to see him back. Mentioned he had a wrist operation, from | :08:02. | :08:16. | |
operation as well. -- finger operation. | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
If you're going to chase Rory today you've got to make a good start. | :08:24. | :09:24. | |
He is threading the needle. Very much looking forward to seeing these | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
guys today. Victor is quite an aggressive player. | :09:35. | :09:54. | |
Finding a decent place. You have a chance of finding a decent position. | :09:55. | :10:21. | |
Second Open Championship for Victor Dubuisson. He played as an amateur a | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
few years ago. Eagle putt for Shane Lowry. He's racing along. Going to | :10:30. | :10:47. | |
32. He is 6-under par. Now he is at seven. Best score out there at the | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
moment. Adam Scott opting for the long | :10:50. | :11:23. | |
putter. It did look a bit tight down there. | :11:24. | :11:37. | |
They are looking forward to the game. Always one of my favourite | :11:38. | :11:54. | |
players to watch playing because he has a lot of shots, is exciting. I | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
felt at one point he could have got some momentum and confidence, but he | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
has plenty of support as always. Let's just take this walk with | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
Sergio Garcia across the bridge and stone to the first tee. | :12:15. | :12:37. | |
Shaking hands with all the people they are going to accompany around | :12:38. | :13:38. | |
Lovely start, coming perfectly towards the flag. Eduardo Molinari | :13:39. | :14:08. | |
still lives in Italy. Bite back green, then back -- putting green, | :14:09. | :14:21. | |
then back to the range. He has eliminated the real bad score, which | :14:22. | :14:22. | |
was a huge setback. 162 for Victor Dubuisson. Slightly | :14:23. | :14:46. | |
on the down slope. Good angle into this green. | :14:47. | :14:57. | |
He looks pleased with it. Down into the sun. | :14:58. | :15:21. | |
Angel Cabrera for par on the 13th. Another thing Rory McIlroy was keen | :15:22. | :15:34. | |
to stress, you came from seven behind to win. -- he came. | :15:35. | :16:14. | |
Leading the potting stats -- putting stats, and when he does that well it | :16:15. | :16:29. | |
is difficult to beat him. Very nice. I don't know what alterations he | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
made to his technique but it is very nice. | :16:34. | :16:51. | |
That is JP and Michael Bannon in the background. Interesting, we got the | :16:52. | :17:08. | |
bet his father placed, there is a lot of money at stake. From the | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
bookmaker who took the bet, that is. When he won the open last year he | :17:12. | :17:53. | |
kept going with his driver nicely. I thought he might be cagey but he | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
often gives it a rip where others don't. Rory McIlroy started at a | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
young age. He still has his first club. | :18:12. | :18:21. | |
Still the owner of the lowest round, 65 in the second round, | :18:22. | :18:35. | |
flanked by 71. Johnson will need to chase hard for | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
his first major. Seven shots behind back -- Rory McIlroy. | :18:47. | :18:56. | |
On the tee from Spain, Sergio Garcia. | :18:57. | :19:24. | |
The popular Sergio Garcia has a junior and amateur title, still | :19:25. | :19:34. | |
searching for the third leg of that treble. He needs to shoot at least | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
65 today and hope things do not go the way of Rory McIlroy. | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
Little nudge in the breeze. Good shot, right in the centre of the | :19:48. | :20:03. | |
fairway. Maureen says 65 is required at least. | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
It is perhaps possible. Such a late hit, driving down. Really did | :20:15. | :20:28. | |
squeeze that one out, making sure it was not going to hook. What can he | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
show us today? Eduardo Molinari, lovely second shot in. Not a lovely | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
putt. They start, three -- good start, | :20:44. | :21:10. | |
that is. Victor Dubuisson for par. Expectation bearing down on him. | :21:11. | :22:57. | |
Just another round. Through he goes to the applause of | :22:58. | :23:31. | |
the crowd. Friendship before the round and I'm | :23:32. | :24:03. | |
sure we will see something from this young man born to play golf. The | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
eyes of the golfing world are on him. Can he do it? Of course. | :24:09. | :24:48. | |
He is dangerous. Fantastic shot. Brilliant shot. Top quality. That is | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
his shot of the day. Lovely. That is the build-up for you. Sergio | :24:56. | :25:15. | |
Garcia is up ahead. As he overdone it? Sneaks by. Right | :25:16. | :25:32. | |
on the top of the tight rope, I thought he was going to fall off. | :25:33. | :25:45. | |
Over the top, you can see the top of the little horse shoe stands. Gives | :25:46. | :25:55. | |
you an indication of the breeze. News on the conditions? So much | :25:56. | :26:33. | |
anticipation from a mainly British crowd. Chance of a British winner. | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
It is spectacular. We have some breeze, there are some holes that | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
will be testing. Not been his favourite, the first. | :26:41. | :27:02. | |
Interesting to see his tactics. You cannot really see it from this angle | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
but there had two bunkers on the right. -- there are two bunkers. | :27:06. | :27:17. | |
Interesting to see what Rory McIlroy does here. I'd be surprised if it | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
was a driver. I'd be very surprised. He does not need to take any risks. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
If in doubt, check out, drop a stroke, hit it in the middle of the | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
green. He's got the driver out. We will go | :27:34. | :27:43. | |
up to the green. Very nicely played indeed. He was | :27:44. | :27:59. | |
there in 2007. This is the final game of the 143rd | :28:00. | :28:26. | |
Open Championship. On the tee from USA, Rickie Fowler. | :28:27. | :28:38. | |
Second major in a row he's been out in the final group, Rickie Fowler. | :28:39. | :29:18. | |
Rory McIlroy! He has set himself a strategy this | :29:19. | :29:44. | |
week not to be too Conservative and this is an aggressive play-off, | :29:45. | :29:52. | |
first. -- the first. He can take all the bunkers out of play. | :29:53. | :30:06. | |
Look at that! Look at that! That is a statement. Here I go. | :30:07. | :30:22. | |
That was a fairway splitter. He cut it in half. It was extraordinary. | :30:23. | :30:33. | |
Rory's story is on our website, and another chapter today perhaps. The | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
third like of a career grand slam by the age of 25 -- the third leg. I | :30:41. | :30:49. | |
first bumped into him when he was 14. He was a little curly haired | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
Roy, slightly nervous. I interviewed him. | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
Garcia. Beautifully done. The noise will feed down a bit, the atmosphere | :31:00. | :31:12. | |
is sizzling at Hoylake. 10-under for Sergio Garcia. That break when the | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
ball could have gone to the left just sneaking by. A springboard to | :31:18. | :31:29. | |
his round. Cabrera, 6-under par, plenty of birdies on the course. | :31:30. | :31:44. | |
A crowd that will go around with McIlroy and Fowler... Quite close to | :31:45. | :31:52. | |
him as well. This is where McIlroy and Fowler... Quite close to | :31:53. | :31:58. | |
escapes from it and feels comfortable, his natural | :31:59. | :32:07. | |
environment, like Tiger. All three rounds in the 60s has only been done | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
three times. Tiger Woods was the last. Rory McIlroy or three rounds | :32:12. | :32:19. | |
in the 60s so far, as has Rickie Fowler -- all three. McIlroy is up | :32:20. | :32:27. | |
on the horizon somewhere, Fowler is in the bunker. For a birdie at the | :32:28. | :32:38. | |
6th. Eight, he goes. If this continues, if the golf continues | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
like this, this will be blistering stuff this afternoon. The blue skies | :32:45. | :32:52. | |
have moved away, but I am sure it will be a super afternoon. Igor putt | :32:53. | :32:59. | |
coming up Graeme McDowell. -- eagle. 6-under, 5th hole. A bit of a ridge | :33:00. | :33:09. | |
halfway to the hole over the bump. Over and down the other side. No. | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
halfway to the hole over the bump. Good effort, but | :33:16. | :33:15. | |
halfway to the hole over the bump. Good effort, not quite good enough. | :33:16. | :33:21. | |
halfway to the hole over the bump. Back to the first. Rickie Fowler. He | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
will play short of the bunkers and play a 4-iron. 201 yards, wind from | :33:25. | :33:32. | |
the right. He is posing. It certainly is online, a cracking | :33:33. | :33:33. | |
shot. This opening hole has not been kind | :33:34. | :33:46. | |
to Rory Mclroy. He has had drop-shots go through the green on a | :33:47. | :33:56. | |
couple of occasions. A big advantage and he is threaded it straight | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
through the trouble. There she threaded it. The breeze from the | :34:01. | :34:08. | |
right, the first tee shot of the day. Amazing, when he is like this, | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
everything is on. 154 yards left for him. The wind is fresh. A bit cooler | :34:14. | :34:22. | |
than it has been all morning so the conditions are a fraction more | :34:23. | :34:23. | |
challenging than they have been. This would be a good time for | :34:24. | :34:33. | |
McIlroy to hit one nicely into the green, do not go too far as you have | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
done before. Missed the first bunkers. A nice Queen Street hit. -- | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
clean, straight hit. That is the first hold-up with, | :34:47. | :35:17. | |
Peter. -- that is the 1st hole over with. We are looking at Adam Scott | :35:18. | :35:26. | |
for a birdie. Making a move forward. It is not too late, there are plenty | :35:27. | :35:28. | |
of holes left. Dustin. At the 2nd. He finds the | :35:29. | :35:49. | |
green, will it go too far? It is OK. Never a bad thing, to find the | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
fairways and to hit the middle of the green. This has always been so | :35:55. | :36:07. | |
good to Garcia over the years. Three perfect shots from Garcia down | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
the first, a perfect tee shot here. Going in with a wedge. He did hold a | :36:13. | :36:20. | |
second shot here on Friday. Too much to expect history to repeat itself, | :36:21. | :36:27. | |
surely? He also did it in the third round in 2006. He has done one thing | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
right, in 2006 coming he turned out on the last day in all yellow which | :36:35. | :36:43. | |
was a schoolboy error. -- in 2006,. If he had won, it would have been a | :36:44. | :36:47. | |
wonderful choice of clothing, but he did not win. Are you suggesting | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
yellow put him off? I wore yellow ones and I was called banana man. I | :36:55. | :37:01. | |
never wore it again. -- once. That was rather cruel. Cabrera, going | :37:02. | :37:08. | |
along nicely, this for a 16 -- this for a three at the 16th. Another | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
birdie. If he starts with a birdie, I am not | :37:12. | :37:44. | |
sure he will be ready for the volume. Amazing, he hit the only | :37:45. | :37:52. | |
club that could bring the bunkers interplay on the first. -- into | :37:53. | :38:00. | |
play. I think they like to listen to the crowd. It is wonderful. What a | :38:01. | :38:07. | |
way to start. Only 17 more to go, young sir, do not be carried away. | :38:08. | :38:14. | |
It will settle his nerves, Peter. The perspiration flowing in this box | :38:15. | :38:21. | |
is amazing, we have done two wheat is already and he has only played | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
one hole! -- litres. Our friends from the United States | :38:25. | :38:51. | |
are here in great numbers. The television stations. They are all | :38:52. | :38:59. | |
here. And you will be delighted to hear the plane has now gone and the | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
toilets are now working again for the commentators, so everybody is | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
more or less happy and it shows you the power a certain man called Bill | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
Lacey has! If he had some adrenaline on the | :39:13. | :39:30. | |
first tee, after that birdie... He has got to be incredibly pumped up | :39:31. | :39:38. | |
now, a seven stroke lead. And he knew with a couple of feet to go. | :39:39. | :39:45. | |
Irish flag in the background for a reason, it could be their day. | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
Garcia resolutely keeping his back to the scoreboard but he did hear | :39:52. | :39:54. | |
the big cheer from the last. Nasty one, left. 300 yards to the | :39:55. | :40:01. | |
bunkers to the right. McIlroy. A little anxious. He is in a perfect | :40:02. | :40:26. | |
position now just short of those bunkers, 15 yards short, he judged | :40:27. | :40:28. | |
it nicely. A perfect spot. Just the move downwards is quite | :40:29. | :40:44. | |
remarkable. He has that almost counter hip rotation like you are | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
throwing something heavy, so much power. Fowler, is he up to the test? | :40:50. | :41:01. | |
He's a great shot maker, Rickie Fowler. He is the only player who | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
has had two top five finishes in the first Majors of the year. A little | :41:08. | :41:15. | |
closer. 300 yards to those bunkers and he cut it mighty fine, even with | :41:16. | :41:22. | |
a 3-wood. And downwind. Rory is dead safe, 30 yards short of those | :41:23. | :41:32. | |
bunkers. Dustin Johnson at the 2nd, which is the 18th for the members. | :41:33. | :41:47. | |
17 and 18 one and two. -- one. When the wind is in a certain direction, | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
it gets very frightening. Robert Karlsson on the left side. Such a | :41:55. | :42:04. | |
good swing for a tall player. So well balanced, second shot into | :42:05. | :42:14. | |
four. It is good. A second birdie on four holes. Garcia from five feet, | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
moving right to left. It should fade a little. Well done. Birdie par | :42:21. | :42:32. | |
start. They have to rely on Reid to give them a bit of help. -- Rory. | :42:33. | :42:41. | |
Great scenes here from our cameras on high, scanning over the course. | :42:42. | :42:44. | |
So much goes into this on high, scanning over the course. | :42:45. | :42:46. | |
Championship, and many other great events in the world of golf. But | :42:47. | :42:54. | |
this is the big one. And this is a big one, this is a monster putt. | :42:55. | :43:01. | |
Cricket pitch length. 22 yards. Do you want to bet? You obviously don't | :43:02. | :43:15. | |
think it is 22 yards. 23, 24! Ladies, that was a long putt. | :43:16. | :43:29. | |
Close to the out of bounds at the 3rd, I think for the first time. | :43:30. | :43:43. | |
Back to Garcia at the tee. 426 yard par four, on the practice ground. | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
Quite a big target with an iron. The breeze from the right will help keep | :43:50. | :43:55. | |
this out of bounds. That was just a punch forward, there was not a lot | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
of power behind it. Along the chip shot up to the corner. -- a long | :44:00. | :44:02. | |
chip shot. Second shot for McIlroy at the 2nd, | :44:03. | :44:20. | |
174 yards breeze down and slightly from the left, cannot afford to go | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
to aggressive. -- to aggressive. You can usually tell from the body | :44:24. | :44:44. | |
language, I reckon that is fairly straight. That is OK. Keep doing | :44:45. | :44:57. | |
that, my boy! Daddy will be pleased. I think he aimed both shots at the | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
1st and the second straight at the middle of the green. He knows he can | :45:04. | :45:07. | |
reduce the par five stood almost nothing, the distance he hits the | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
ball, and with accuracy. -- to almost nothing. I definitely think | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
he has a game plan. The tee shot of Rickie Fowler. This is a 9-iron | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
course coming he has to be a bit more aggressive than McIlroy. Seven | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
course coming he has to be a bit shots behind now. -- this is a | :45:30. | :45:30. | |
9-iron course and he has to be. shots behind now. -- this is a | :45:31. | :45:39. | |
ducked down on it. It spins shots behind now. -- this is a | :45:40. | :45:46. | |
little. Wonderful, 162 yards with a firm and 9-iron. Something to | :45:47. | :45:59. | |
ponder. -- 9-iron. Par, par start for Johnson. | :46:00. | :46:17. | |
This is the seventh green, Ryan Moore. One birdie on the first six | :46:18. | :46:30. | |
holes, this for another. Well done! Mr seven. -- he moves to seven. We | :46:31. | :46:38. | |
saw this yesterday, making birdies in the first nine, trying to get to | :46:39. | :46:50. | |
McIlroy. Jim Furyk. He just keeps rolling along. He is at it again, | :46:51. | :46:58. | |
look at that. If that had been cut to properly, that would have gone | :46:59. | :47:07. | |
in! Green keepers. -- properly. A bit of good fortune for gentleman | :47:08. | :47:10. | |
Jim. The second, this is the members' 18. | :47:11. | :47:28. | |
This is arguably the only 18th hole where you cannot see the clubhouse. | :47:29. | :47:34. | |
It is on our left, about 100 yards, level with the green. Unless you | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
have a giraffe necks, you cannot see the clubhouse. --. -- giraffe | :47:41. | :47:51. | |
necked. RCA in the group ahead misjudged the pace on this -- | :47:52. | :47:59. | |
Garcia. Can McIlroy pick-up the extra speed? I wonder where they | :48:00. | :48:09. | |
are, is that a private home? It looks like it. They can sit on | :48:10. | :48:16. | |
Sunday evenings and watched the golfers go by. -- and what. McIlroy | :48:17. | :48:25. | |
has to come over in little ridge and when it hits that, it will go a | :48:26. | :48:36. | |
fraction left -- a little. Hello. He gave it a scare. Beautifully done. | :48:37. | :48:48. | |
He may have to move that marker, maybe not. Up ahead to three. Sergio | :48:49. | :49:03. | |
Garcia, close to the out of bounds. Kick forward. Keep going. That was a | :49:04. | :49:17. | |
beautifully played shot from Garcia. Look at that flipping around. It is | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
incredible. Fowler fairly closed at the 1st and | :49:22. | :49:38. | |
the same at the 2nd. He has some days where he just cannot make a | :49:39. | :49:46. | |
putt, so it is crucial that he gets a putt early on. Like that. | :49:47. | :49:55. | |
McIlroy's Marco gave him a bit of help. -- mark-up. Rory has to hold | :49:56. | :50:04. | |
his for them to remain level for their final round. | :50:05. | :50:20. | |
A little bit of a stroll up to the third tee. The last pair have | :50:21. | :50:47. | |
completed two holes. Once they have hit 30 shots, they start to move out | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
into the country. -- there tee shots. | :50:52. | :51:08. | |
We saw Garcia hit a second shot. He is playing alongside Dustin Johnson. | :51:09. | :51:20. | |
Can he get it closer? That will be an easier putt from that side. We | :51:21. | :51:30. | |
saw Jim Furyk's second shot almost go in and Robert Karlsson has this | :51:31. | :51:33. | |
for an eagle, to take him to 10-under. Perfect. Two birdies and | :51:34. | :51:44. | |
an eagle on the first five holes for Robert Karlsson. He joined the queue | :51:45. | :51:52. | |
of pretenders. They are not letting Rory off the hook. They are giving | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
him something to think about. Fowler at the 3rd. | :51:57. | :52:12. | |
Rory first played his first R Championship at Hoylake in 2,000. He | :52:13. | :52:35. | |
lost in the first round. All these years later, he is poised. For the | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
Open Championship. He is not putting a foot wrong, that | :52:39. | :52:58. | |
is another pure strike and he set off like he knows exactly what he is | :52:59. | :53:04. | |
doing. He is going to play his round of golf regardless of what the other | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
do -- of what the others do and play a solid round. If he shoots 68, he | :53:10. | :53:15. | |
shoots the lowest score ever shot in a major Championship. Tiger Woods | :53:16. | :53:24. | |
holes it at 19-under par on 2,000 at St Andrews -- holds it. Three more | :53:25. | :53:30. | |
birdies. They could mess around with the par but I think it would mess | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
the course up. I the par but I think it would mess | :53:35. | :53:44. | |
important. Garcia has done it. They are all chasing. They all like Rory | :53:45. | :53:51. | |
but they are acting as if they do not like him, it is very unfair. | :53:52. | :53:58. | |
They just want a contest, Peter. Shot up! People do not want a | :53:59. | :54:04. | |
contest, people want to see Rory winning by 82 shots, pull yourself | :54:05. | :54:13. | |
together. -- shut up. That is woeful. If that was a long shot, it | :54:14. | :54:21. | |
would have been out of bounds. David Howell. For a birdie at the 10th to | :54:22. | :54:29. | |
go to 7-under par. And he is at it as well. Well, well, well. | :54:30. | :54:39. | |
What a carry on. Justin Rose for a par at the 3rd, at yes. -- yes. | :54:40. | :55:04. | |
There is plenty of movement on this final day of the 143rd Open | :55:05. | :55:13. | |
Championship, exciting. A six shot gap between McIlroy and the rest but | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
Garcia is making the right moves with two birdies in his opening | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
three holes and we have seen an eagle from Robert Karlsson, and Jim | :55:23. | :55:29. | |
Furyk, almost an albatross. So many possibilities and a lot of great | :55:30. | :55:32. | |
scoring. As you would expect on the final day. But so far, McIlroy is | :55:33. | :55:39. | |
still in command, but this is the man who is chasing, Fowler. | :55:40. | :55:50. | |
Will he take this flag on? A long way back. He is trying. He wants it | :55:51. | :55:57. | |
to cut back. Could have done with another club. 15 yards short. Most | :55:58. | :56:08. | |
of these guy -- of these guys would fade it, Dustin Johnson appeared to | :56:09. | :56:14. | |
draw it to the pin and could only get it 20 feet left of it. Basia | :56:15. | :56:21. | |
started in the middle of the green and he cut it back -- Sergio Garcia. | :56:22. | :56:29. | |
Not easy from 204 yards out of bounds. | :56:30. | :56:42. | |
Steady. Just makes it that little bit more difficult. Just off the | :56:43. | :56:51. | |
edge. At the par three. We will see what | :56:52. | :57:02. | |
the big Swede can do here. Another good one gets on that level. | :57:03. | :57:28. | |
It is just on top of a little ridge. Just enough breeze out there, | :57:29. | :57:34. | |
Peter. Yes, just enough to keep it interesting. Sergio, at the 4th. | :57:35. | :57:44. | |
372 yards. The shortest par four on the course. Playing alongside Dustin | :57:45. | :57:57. | |
Johnson. Two reports from Eastbourne about | :57:58. | :58:16. | |
the pogo stick jumping professional, I am told it was Charlie Macey who | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
sadly died in the early 1990s. Another lady said it was Norman Hock | :58:22. | :58:28. | |
law, both names are familiar. -- Norman Hock law. I am leaning | :58:29. | :58:30. | |
towards Charlie, thank you for that. to the top ten if this goes in. | :58:31. | :59:02. | |
These greens are the perfect speed for these guys. They are not fearful | :59:03. | :59:07. | |
of them. This is one of the best final days I've seen in a long time, | :59:08. | :59:14. | |
everybody up and into the action. Everybody last year was different. | :59:15. | :59:23. | |
But it has been a display of great golf so far. Rory has been chipping | :59:24. | :59:26. | |
up beautifully. This will be important. Very good lie, a | :59:27. | :59:35. | |
straightforward chip shot. Very tasty. | :59:36. | :59:39. | |
Do the players take the trophy home, one viewer wants to know? Yes, they | :59:40. | :59:58. | |
do. They keep it. In the Ryder Cup a couple of replicas go round, but I'm | :59:59. | :00:04. | |
not sure about The Open trophy. That beautiful stroke, the ball comes up | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
in the air, lands and moves towards the hole. A beautiful judge of pace. | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
Just coming out of the first cut of rough, Garcia. Very accessible flag | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
here for Garcia. Just a pitching wedge from 151 yards, downwind. He's | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
already made two birdies in the first three holes. One more | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
bounce... Still, 18, 20 feet left. Rory tats in after that beautiful | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
chip. -- taps in. An e-mail from France, can you tell me why the | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
players are wearing black ribbons? It is in memory of Bob Torrance, the | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
father of Sam, who passed away a couple of days ago. He would have | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
loved to have been here to watch today. Rickie Fowler from a long way | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
away. Fairly good lag. There will be great | :01:21. | :01:41. | |
interest in Northern Ireland, not just Rory, but at Balmoral golf club | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Fred Daly was the professional for umpteen years and he won The Open | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
here in 1947. I think he was second in the following year at Muirfield. | :01:52. | :02:04. | |
Good two putt for Fowler. Another hole gone though and still six in | :02:05. | :02:19. | |
it. Robert Karlsson. This is to go to 10-under. | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
Frank, you can answer this question we've had. Derek is intrigued by the | :02:27. | :02:46. | |
blue tracer that follows the flight of the ball. We will watch this | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
first, and then think about how and where it was introduced. Do you | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
know? Fowler at the 4th, his tee shot. We will see what lying it | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
gives first. -- what lying. It looks like a good one. To be honest, I | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
have only seen it in America first, but I don't know who started it all | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
who invented it. It is more prevalent in the United States. It | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
is called track man. It is slightly different to the blue line. Track | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
man. It gives you all the numbers, flight trajectories. Don't, I'm | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
confused enough. Rory isn't confused. A big lead. An iron | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
downwind. This hole is less than 400 yards. | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
Looked like he was admiring his work after that tee shot. Wouldn't blame | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
him. after that tee shot. Wouldn't blame | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
three, plotting his way. after that tee shot. Wouldn't blame | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
from some Scottish fans, the Buchanan family in deepest France | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
are enjoying the coverage. I shall win 5 euros from grandpa if Rory | :04:18. | :04:31. | |
winds. -- Rory wins. At the par-5, the world number one. He's doing a | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
good job. Just too far behind at this stage. Had the chance to win at | :04:40. | :04:53. | |
the last two Opens. The field have gone off like trains. None of the | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
last eight groups have anyone over-par for the day. Phil Mickelson | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
at 18 finishing his round. It has been a tough week for Phil. He is on | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
4-under. Currently lying 27, no disgrace for the defending champion. | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
If he holes that, it will give him 68. | :05:21. | :05:44. | |
The Australian, Marc Leishman, he went very close at Augusta couple of | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
years ago. Nearly in double digits. Four under | :05:49. | :06:05. | |
already. A beautiful day for scoring. It's a birdie -fest. Can | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
Garcia make another one. A strange putting grip, like a tin of broken | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
biscuits, doesn't look great, but does the job. Has he hit it? Short | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
enough to get it to the hole. Just 141 yards for Rory McIlroy's | :06:25. | :06:42. | |
second shot to the fourth. This breeze is helping so he needs to | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
aggressive and go over the back of aggressive and go over the back of | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
the hole and the green. Sand iron. Middle of the green, right of the | :06:55. | :07:04. | |
flag. Down, down, down. Did you say right at the flag? Right at the | :07:05. | :07:13. | |
flag. Was that not right at the flight? I did not mind if it went a | :07:14. | :07:25. | |
bit right of the flag. Rickie Fowler also with a sand iron, he hit his | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
wedge is a bit lower than McIlroy. Mind you, most people do hit lower | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
than McIlroy. Trouble is, they hit it more often than McIlroy. Bite. | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
Gone. If that had been Pinehurst, the little course in America, that | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
would be about a quarter of a mile away. But it ain't. And it's not too | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
bad. Garcia waiting a long... INAUDIBLE | :07:58. | :08:07. | |
Sergio Asenjo par-5. Even with the 3-wood he could get home. -- Sergio | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
at the par-5. Arnold Palmer used to take a bit of a divot when he drove | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
and he was one of the best drivers of the ball, ended up being the best | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
driver of the ball. Cabrera at 18. That will be five at the last. He | :08:25. | :08:43. | |
dropped a stroke at 17. A round of 67 if this goes in. Very nicely | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
done. APPLAUSE After a first round of 76 for | :08:46. | :09:02. | |
Cabrera, he is currently in 14th. A really good Open after the opening | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
round. Robert Karlsson was lucky to miss that bunker. The pin is open to | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
the left, he's opened that up, but the wind is from the left so it is | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
tough to get to. Looks like an 8-iron. Oh, lovely shot. This is an | :09:19. | :09:28. | |
absolute delight to watch. Everybody is playing beautifully. Sheer | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
delight. The course is in lovely condition. The golf is good. | :09:36. | :09:45. | |
Mickelson finishing off. What a way to finish! The defending champion | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
finishes with what row and a round of 68, 5-under for the Championship. | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
Good defence. -- finishes with four. | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
The crowd appreciating his ever -- efforts and performance last year. | :10:07. | :10:31. | |
That shot of Fowler's took a wicked bounce in front of him. Maybe | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
chipping might have been a better option. Pretty green after that rain | :10:36. | :10:48. | |
last night. Lovely corner of the golf course, the fourth. This is | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
only just outside ten feet, Phil. Chance to get to 18-under par. He's | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
just been sensational this week. He is a genius. This week he's just | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
shown us how good he is. Sometimes you think is too aggressive but I | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
think on this golf course you need to be more aggressive off the tee to | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
make the second shot a little easier. A lot of players have been | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
so far back, leaving too much to do. But not this kid. This is to get to | :11:26. | :11:40. | |
18-under. Oh, what a good effort. Another hole safely negotiated. | :11:41. | :11:50. | |
Another three or four of those and suddenly it is nine holes to go and | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
six ahead. Steady, don't get carried away. CHUCKLES | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
Dubuisson, the colourful but quiet Frenchman. This is to go to | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
10-under, and Dropped a stroke at the 1st, two | :12:12. | :12:28. | |
pars, and birdie, eagle. Ricky, this to stay at 11-under with Garcia. | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
Comfortably holed. Does not cut into the lead. The Tour de France went | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
through Yorkshire the other week and somebody fell through a roof | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
climbing up to watch it. You don't want too many people on top of your | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
house. I watched a bit of it, there was hardly any road left coming from | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
your place in Ilkley, the roads were only about ten feet wide. Shane | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
Lowry at 15. Great set of par threes, make two here... There's the | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
reaction. A bombardment of birdies, I don't think I've seen anything | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
like this for many a year. Edoardo Molinari. He might as joined the | :13:29. | :13:39. | |
birdie barrage. Another one. It is a bit ho-hum on a par-5, isn't it? | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
Three eagles in the last half an hour at the 5th. Robert Karlsson for | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
birdie. At eight. No, he didn't hit it quite hard | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
enough, Robert. But he's still very much in the hunt | :14:02. | :14:19. | |
for a big prize. There will be a bit of a cavalry charge when we get to | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
the end. Finishing four - 12, Quattro-16, there will be a lot of | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
players jammed in there. You can see what he's trying to do. The fairway | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
wood. Just hammered through the back of | :14:39. | :14:50. | |
the green. That looks like it could be in an awkward lie. Yeah, trying | :14:51. | :15:02. | |
to cut that, hung onto it and it went further. Justin Rose for birdie | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
at eight. Another one. Well done, Justin, his second birdie of the | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
day, moving to 7-under. Par-5 for Rickie Fowler moving into the wind | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
off the right. Bunkers down the right, you have to avoid the three | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
of those, nasty things. That looked like a 3-wood. Certainly not a | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
driver Alessi has a small headed version. That's OK. -- driver unless | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
he has. The hole bends a little to the left. The first bunker comes in, | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
265 yards. The next one is around 280 yards. It does not look like a | :15:52. | :16:04. | |
3-wood for Rory. Another driver. There is gorse down the left, | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
bunkers up the right, but all he sees is the fairway. | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
Pity, it was a magnificent strike, just when five or six feet too far. | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
That might make it awkward to reach the green in two. But having seen | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
him reach the green with a 5-iron from 550 yards on the last hole, I | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
don't think a bit of fluff will bother the boys much. Matching | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
shirt, matching shoes. A bit like dear old Harry Bradshaw years ago. | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
He was a fashion plate. I bet you had only one colour of shoe, Peter. | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
Who is in there? Adam Scott? We've with everything. | :17:00. | :17:12. | |
Who is in there? Adam Scott? We've found the ball. Trying to take a | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
drop with a putter that is 14 feet long. I'm not sure I approve of this | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
with my old fuddy-duddy ways. The driver was always the longest club | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
in the bag for me. Dustin Johnson comes out and on. Rocky Thomson used | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
to use a driver that was about 56 inches long. He was mayor of his | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
local town. He was beautifully eccentric. I like Tim very much. -- | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
I liked him very much. Garcia at the back of the fifth. Fairly | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
straightforward pitch shot, lots of green to work with. Nicely back into | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
the breeze. Certainly hit that second shot a long way. 20 or 30 | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
yards past the flag. Stabs it up, a pitch and run, easing | :18:06. | :18:22. | |
up to the hole side. Lovely job. CHEERING | :18:23. | :18:42. | |
How are things down there, Scott, with Molinari and Dubuisson? It has | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
been a mixed bag start for Dubuisson, a great eagle at the | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
last. Molinari has played clean and clinical golf so far. Missed the | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
green at 16 but otherwise pretty solid in hitting the fairways. Just | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
not quite made the putts yet. In the same bunker as Victor Dubuisson. If | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
you are just joining us, or we are not showing your local Tour | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
professional, these are the alphabeticals running along the | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
bottom of your screen. Victor Dubuisson is eyeing this up. As to | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
go up a tier, that is difficult. Pitched it into the tier which is | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
brilliant play. Write to the hole side. Par saved on the par 364 | :19:40. | :19:55. | |
Victor Dubuisson. -- on the par-3 six four Victor Dubuisson. | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
Up the hill for par for Johnson after dropping it out of the gorse | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
bush of the tee. It was a good try. But that is a 64 | :20:09. | :20:33. | |
Dustin Johnson. -- that is a six four Dustin Johnson. Sergio has this | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
to go on 12. Certainly for a view minutes Rory's lead will be cut to | :20:44. | :20:57. | |
five. Frank and Peter are recovering from this birdie barrage for a few | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
minutes. I'm joined by Ken Brown and Andrew Cotter. It is interesting. | :21:04. | :21:13. | |
Garcia, what a start. Interesting watching McIlroy hit the driver. No | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
need for him to do it on the 5th hole, playing alongside Rickie | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Fowler. Phil Parkinson is down there. Rickie Fowler has been | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
waiting for the green to clear. He has 282 with the wind coming | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
slightly from the right, but hurting a fraction. He needs to catch all of | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
this. Bunkers to the front of the green. David plenty of air, looked | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
like he got most of it. -- gave it. Big hit. Pin at the back, ball in | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
the bunker. It will not be the easiest shot. Sloping up a tier. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Rory hit his tee shot about 315, just past the last trap but one. | :22:04. | :22:17. | |
This is a magnificent lie for Rory. 252. He can get this so easily. The | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
ball is about two inches off the ground. | :22:24. | :22:33. | |
Contact a little heavy and plummeting into the grandstand area. | :22:34. | :22:43. | |
The ball was sat up so well he might have hit it off the top of the blade | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
slightly. That's all I can think. Sometimes it's not the nicest of | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
flies back. Hard to tell from that angle. Grazing the top of the | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
grass, maybe he didn't get the contact right. | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
Drop zones around, might get a better lie and shot at it. One -- | :23:13. | :23:29. | |
uncharacteristically loose. Now Edoardo Molinari. | :23:30. | :23:38. | |
He gives back the one he picked up at the 5th hole. He really is | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
heading backwards. It is such a congested part of the | :23:46. | :24:06. | |
course with huge galleries following the final two matches, Garcia is | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
standing back and waiting until McIlroy's ball is pumping into the | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
fairway beside him. Quite difficult to get close to the back tier, but | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
ideal to get close for a short uphill putt. | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
That's low, will it chase? Lucky. Soft into the hollow and the ball at | :24:37. | :24:49. | |
the bottom of it. Nicely played. Pretty tough shot. Heading over to | :24:50. | :25:02. | |
Shane Lowry. 16th, this is to go 9-under. If you can find a 3-3 | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
finish, that would really do some damage. What is the situation? You | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
can see the white line, he's watching in the drop zone. He has to | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
drop in the drop zone and it's pretty rough there. You never know | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
what you're going to get. Bernie McGuire adjusting, he must be in | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
charge of the photographers and press, making sure they're not | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
getting in anybody's way. Bernie McGuire is there week in, week out, | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
doing his press work. What sort of lie did he get. I asked to get in | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
there and told Rory to get out of the way so I could have a look! UK | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
median! He has about 23, 20 four yards to work with. -- you | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
comedian. From where we looked at through the camera it did not look | :26:14. | :26:23. | |
to be lying too badly. He's going to have to try to get this to land | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
softly. He cannot rely on spin with this. He will have to control Howard | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
releases with how high he hits the ball. It looks a bit like spinach to | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
me. I can just see the top of the ball. He does not want to get too | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
cute. The one thing he has to make sure is that he gets it on. There is | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
a bank just before the flag so he can fly this pretty much all the | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
way, certainly to within 15 feet of the pin. | :26:55. | :27:04. | |
Has it? Get down. Over the hill. OK. It's getting worse. | :27:05. | :27:22. | |
like he's chipping along the ridge which | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
like he's chipping along the ridge he is a fiendishly good chipper, | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
Rory. he is a fiendishly good chipper, | :27:30. | :27:38. | |
That five shot lead over Garcia... Once he | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
That five shot lead over Garcia... that was a birdie chance. He's | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
birdied it every day so far, McIlroy. A five here will feel like | :27:46. | :27:55. | |
a shot gone. Bodi putt for Adam Scott at seven. Oh, no, not another | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
one. Nearly. He's holed Scott at seven. Oh, no, not another | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
wonderful putts. This is down to sheer talent, this kind of thing. | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
Just how much skill do you have? A lot. A heck of a lot. What a shot. | :28:13. | :28:23. | |
Had to flip that clubhead under the ball and spin it back. Even you | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
would not have done that well, Ken. Worth another look. But how steep he | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
is. To get it down and get the distance, forward and up. A little | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
unlucky it did not run up the tier. Had a beauty on 18 last night but | :28:46. | :28:58. | |
that was every bit as good. An interesting chip shot for McIlroy | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
and if he does not judge it proper week, he can end up 50 feet to the | :29:04. | :29:10. | |
right. He has to keep level. How does it feel? It is not too bad. | :29:11. | :29:57. | |
Go on, Sergio, do not forget to hit it. Run away. A complete misread. We | :29:58. | :30:12. | |
saw on the seventh, this is his second shot. The pin is guarded. One | :30:13. | :30:21. | |
of the most difficult on the course. It needs to go a bit... It has | :30:22. | :30:33. | |
softened after the rain last night. The sixth and fifth greens are not | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
too far apart, Garcia on the par three. In she goes! Five behind at | :30:39. | :30:54. | |
the moment. It will soon be four. McIlroy to save par at this 5th | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
hole. It should drift a fraction right. | :31:00. | :31:20. | |
five, that is the first bogey. 16-under. We talk about a six shot | :31:21. | :31:28. | |
lead as if that was untouchable but that is five holes played. That is | :31:29. | :31:35. | |
down to four. It is his first six of the week. Johnson, for a par. Par, | :31:36. | :31:49. | |
add six. He stays at 8-under. -- at six. | :31:50. | :32:07. | |
Fowler has this for a two shot swing. | :32:08. | :32:09. | |
Fowler has this for a To gets to 12-under par. -- to get. | :32:10. | :32:23. | |
He says, I must give this a go. It is set inches further than he should | :32:24. | :32:32. | |
have done. -- six. You are absolutely right. You do not want to | :32:33. | :32:35. | |
dribble those on the uphill putt. A walk back to the left and to the | :32:36. | :33:12. | |
sixth tee. Things really are getting more interesting. Rory McIlroy with | :33:13. | :33:20. | |
that rare drop-shot, first bogey on the par five. Victor Dubuisson on | :33:21. | :33:32. | |
the seventh. It is good, it is wonderful. A birdie on the fourth, | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
eagle on the fifth, nearly a chip in birdie on the seventh, he is | :33:39. | :33:44. | |
10-under. Debris from the left -- a breeze. Sergio. | :33:45. | :33:59. | |
It did not look like he hit it into that flag. I am not sure. I was | :34:00. | :34:07. | |
going to say it was a flawless round, but we did not see that | :34:08. | :34:14. | |
finish. There it is. That cameraman could not fools! -- full us. | :34:15. | :34:24. | |
Dustin Johnson will try to do the same, floated down the left-hand | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
side and let it come back in the breeze. -- float it. He has the | :34:30. | :34:36. | |
power to use the driving iron and get it some distance. The toughest | :34:37. | :34:45. | |
hole this week, the par four, seven. Brush seventh. -- seven. A four shot | :34:46. | :34:54. | |
lead for Rory McIlroy. Sergio Garcia is making the move. And Shane Lowry, | :34:55. | :35:00. | |
a good friend of Rory McIlroy, two more holes to play. Wonderful | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
scoring on the final day of the Open. | :35:07. | :35:12. | |
These are all the balls that had been struck so far today, the Reds | :35:13. | :35:22. | |
are the birdies. It is a tough green to read, not many putt have been | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
holed. We saw that open stance, holding it | :35:28. | :35:56. | |
in. He overcooked set. Down into the bunker. -- he overcooked it. | :35:57. | :36:07. | |
I think this is where he really has to keep a cool head. He has got to | :36:08. | :36:17. | |
realise he is going to make the occasional mistake and recover, get | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
back to playing solid golf. One must club, a 6-iron, this will have some | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
height and it will come down softly -- this club. | :36:30. | :36:38. | |
Just having to tread more carefully now, but Phil Mickelson has a | :36:39. | :37:07. | |
closing round of 68 and he finishes with a birdie at the last for a | :37:08. | :37:11. | |
total of 5-under. His dream of becoming the 17th player to retain | :37:12. | :37:16. | |
the courage judge has come to an end but very popular and has -- and he | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
has been cheered all the way around -- the Claret Jug. | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
Phil, it you look touched by that reception as you were walking up the | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
18th, what has it been like here as defending champion? -- you look. The | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
greatest feeling coming back here after having won this tournament. | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
The people treat us so well and walking got 18, it is emotional | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
because it rings back the memories of last year's victory and the | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
feelings I had coming up the 18th green. People here have made this a | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
special for me. You have spoken of your pride of winning the title | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
here, what does it feel like to know you will be travelling home without | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
the Claret Jug? It is motivation for me to work harder because I know how | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
great it feels to have the Claret Jug and to win. It makes me work | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
harder and I am looking forward to St Andrews, I cannot think of a | :38:15. | :38:16. | |
better place to win any golf tournament and I will be working | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
hard to compete for next year's title. Last year's victory makes me | :38:23. | :38:26. | |
hungry to work harder because it felt so good. We look forward to | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
seeing you. | :38:30. | :38:37. | |
We can go back to Garcia. A great effort by Phil Mickelson, he has not | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
been playing too well but he defended his title. Two bunkers. The | :38:42. | :38:49. | |
breeze is left to right and Garcia is going on with a 7-iron. -- going | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
in. Fowler just on the downside, it will | :38:53. | :39:12. | |
release. That was surprisingly how much speed he got on that. -- | :39:13. | :39:21. | |
surprisingly. -- surprisingly. That gives you an idea of the contours. | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
If anybody is going to catch Garcia, they have to play a flawless round | :39:28. | :39:35. | |
of golf. Sorry, McIlroy. You are right, Ken. You have got to make | :39:36. | :39:43. | |
six, seven birdies. You have just got to shoot 65, basically, and hope | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
Michael -- and hope McIlroy gives you a tiny bit of help. The previous | :39:49. | :39:55. | |
hole might have given him some encouragement. Five feet below the | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
putting surface and into the green, it should be straightforward. | :39:59. | :40:14. | |
That becomes a big putt. Doing the same as Mark, I am trying to | :40:15. | :40:27. | |
remember which way it breaks. Who was it? Who is the most in front? I | :40:28. | :40:35. | |
have lost track! Rory will watch this. He will see | :40:36. | :40:47. | |
how it makes. -- breaks. So many people watching this group. | :40:48. | :41:08. | |
They will shout support at the wrong time. Not everybody has a good view | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
of what is happening and that was bad timing from someone. Fowler has | :41:15. | :41:21. | |
this to save backroom -- to save par, at the 6th. We do not know if | :41:22. | :41:33. | |
anybody has holed a par putt. You would think it was right to left. | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
Well done, superb up and down for Rickie Fowler. He stays 11-under. | :41:40. | :41:54. | |
He needs a touch of the Tiger here, he has to make sure there is no | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
rush. There is always a tendency under pressure to rush. After a | :42:01. | :42:10. | |
bogey and a par five the previous hole, and with a demanding tee shot | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
at the 7th, he certainly wants this to save par at the 6th. | :42:16. | :42:46. | |
He thought it was just inside right, but it did not fly to four. -- too | :42:47. | :42:57. | |
far. The first time he has had back-to-back bogeys this week and | :42:58. | :43:05. | |
the chasing pack have the scent. As Mark was saying, this is a big tee | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
shot. One of the most daunting on the course. If you go in with that | :43:12. | :43:21. | |
of the tee, in leaves you a long shot, 480 yards. -- it reads you. If | :43:22. | :43:28. | |
you hit an iron off the tee, it leaves you with a very big second | :43:29. | :43:36. | |
shot. Garcia. From the sand, it is very difficult, on the seventh. | :43:37. | :43:46. | |
Brilliant, absolutely superb shot. It slid underneath and it hit the | :43:47. | :43:56. | |
bank in front of him down the slope. Not many people can play that. Not | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
many people would think of it. You cannot teach that. That is | :44:02. | :44:09. | |
motivating Francesco Molinari. A putt for a three. Francesco | :44:10. | :44:17. | |
Molinari, horrible day yesterday. He lost a chance he might have had on | :44:18. | :44:25. | |
Saturday. He is now the leader in the clubhouse. 67, the Molinari | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
Junior. Three birdies, one eagle to finish with, a round of 67, 8-under | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
par. Fowler spanking it down the middle, | :44:36. | :44:49. | |
beautiful tee shot. Over to you, Rory. | :44:50. | :44:55. | |
The wind is often left -- off to the left. Most right-handers do not like | :44:56. | :45:06. | |
that. A crucial tee shot fourth McIlroy. -- for McIlroy. He is OK. A | :45:07. | :45:21. | |
good break. Normally if you finish on the high spot, you get a decent | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
lie. The atmosphere is electric now. | :45:26. | :45:36. | |
Crackling away. Because that lead has been halved. A lead of half a | :45:37. | :45:39. | |
dozen. Not now, not now! Somebody is wandering across. Nice | :45:40. | :46:07. | |
tee shot. Par five, 10th. Charl Schwartzel. | :46:08. | :46:32. | |
Nicely done, just enough pace. At under. -- 8-under. | :46:33. | :46:41. | |
Victor Dubuisson hit it way left of the tee, lying second shot, into the | :46:42. | :46:50. | |
breeze, it he misjudged it from a good lie. -- he misjudged. Just has | :46:51. | :46:57. | |
to clear the bunker, the little shoulder. He is normally very good | :46:58. | :47:05. | |
at the shots. -- these shots. Beautifully played. You are dead | :47:06. | :47:08. | |
right, he absolutely knew what he was doing with that. Very smooth. | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
Like falling off a log. him, you would have no idea what | :47:15. | :47:25. | |
cards he had. One player who is coming back into | :47:26. | :47:40. | |
it because McIlroy with those back-to-back bogeys, suddenly Victor | :47:41. | :47:49. | |
Dubuisson is just behind. That goes to 7-under. A round of 68 for Charl | :47:50. | :48:01. | |
Schwartzel. -- Coetzee. Should end up being a top 20 finish. But | :48:02. | :48:10. | |
McIlroy is slipping back to 15-under, three shots clear of | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
Sergio Garcia. Rickie Fowler is four behind. Francesco Molinari is the | :48:15. | :48:22. | |
leader in the clubhouse. Adam Scott today, not enough has happened for | :48:23. | :48:25. | |
him. Dustin Johnson is slipping backwards. Stephen Gallacher up to | :48:26. | :48:33. | |
6-under. And Phil Mickelson, we heard from him earlier, the | :48:34. | :48:41. | |
Marc Warren back to 3-under for the Championship. And Tom Watson, 68 | :48:42. | :48:58. | |
today. Not 1 million miles away from his age of 64, nearly 65. He will be | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
today. Not 1 million miles away from back for a final | :49:03. | :49:04. | |
today. Not 1 million miles away from what an effort this year from Tom | :49:05. | :49:11. | |
Watson. Shane Lowry at 18 and what a round | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
he is having. 6-under for the day going in with an iron at the last. | :49:18. | :49:20. | |
And right into the green, very good play indeed. A round of 65. To take | :49:21. | :49:37. | |
There is no good angle to try to get the clubhouse lead. | :49:38. | :49:39. | |
There is no good angle to try to get close to this hole position. The | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
wind is from the left. He has to get some height and get the right | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
distance. Fowler has to be aggressive. 173 yards left. It looks | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
like an 8-iron. take business. He has given himself | :49:51. | :50:19. | |
a birdie chance. -- prisoners. A really good lie from McIlroy, slope, | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
132 yards remaining. Just a little sand iron. | :50:26. | :50:44. | |
I do not think he carried the bunker, there bunkers on the left | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
and he is in one of them. -- there are bunkers. There two deep bunkers | :50:52. | :51:05. | |
-- fair. -- there two deep bunkers. It is an unnecessary risk. Totally | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
unnecessary because if you get it short of the pin, it is a curling | :51:10. | :51:18. | |
putt. You want to be well right. A much easier putt anyway. Another | :51:19. | :51:24. | |
good tee shot from Sergio Garcia. Flag is on the right-hand side with | :51:25. | :51:27. | |
wind from the right, difficult to close to. 169 yards to go, he has a | :51:28. | :51:35. | |
7-iron. He will have on his mind the fact he toured the last one quite | :51:36. | :51:40. | |
badly, so mind over matter, Sergio. -- he missed the last one. Very easy | :51:41. | :51:50. | |
to knock it past, you have to risk the sand and get a high floater. He | :51:51. | :51:52. | |
knows he cannot back off. The length just lifted a bit on the | :51:53. | :52:17. | |
breeze. We have seen a couple of shots from there, that is an uphill | :52:18. | :52:23. | |
putt as we go to McIlroy. The lie is OK but hardly any green to work with | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
and this slopes away from him, and it is down breeze. | :52:30. | :52:40. | |
Nicely down the slope. Beautifully played by McIlroy. It may just | :52:41. | :52:43. | |
steady things. Right on the upslope, it gave him a | :52:44. | :52:59. | |
chance. If he had been further away, it would have been a very difficult | :53:00. | :53:07. | |
shot. Although the ball was sitting down a little so that made it | :53:08. | :53:11. | |
difficult. But the upslope allows you to get the elevation. Not too | :53:12. | :53:19. | |
much spin on the ball because of that lie. Fantastic to see the ball | :53:20. | :53:24. | |
spinning like that. I would love to know what he is | :53:25. | :53:31. | |
thinking now. Nerves jangling. Robert Karlsson, on the 10th. Par | :53:32. | :53:45. | |
five. 9-under par at the moment. Write | :53:46. | :54:07. | |
down the flag. -- down the flag. Marvellous shot from Robert | :54:08. | :54:13. | |
Karlsson, he moves to 11-under. We have another player. | :54:14. | :54:28. | |
A good angle. Slightly overborrowed it. | :54:29. | :54:44. | |
One birdie at the 2nd. A neat and tidy start the Rickie Fowler. -- for | :54:45. | :54:59. | |
Rickie Fowler. Easy wrap-up for Read, a good save. But he will be | :55:00. | :55:07. | |
unsettled. -- Rory. A couple of loose shots but it was a good up and | :55:08. | :55:20. | |
down. A good four. Edoardo Molinari. He has had a good run at the moment, | :55:21. | :55:28. | |
a couple of birdies. Three in a row. Out in 32, Edoardo Molinari. 3-under | :55:29. | :55:39. | |
for his round. Alongside Victor Dubuisson, 10-under par. | :55:40. | :55:49. | |
Nice fluffy cotton wool above, not chucking it down with rain | :55:50. | :56:01. | |
underneath. At the cross the corner. 220 yards to get over the corner. -- | :56:02. | :56:09. | |
across the corner. The wind is helping a bit. | :56:10. | :56:23. | |
He is going to have to smart this iron. You can see the edge of the | :56:24. | :56:31. | |
fairway. You cannot see the bunkers from here. | :56:32. | :56:45. | |
That is a big shot in those conditions today, and he did strike | :56:46. | :56:55. | |
that. Just a little bit left like Francesco Molinari did this week and | :56:56. | :57:01. | |
it went out of bounds. Confident in his ability. He does not mis-hit | :57:02. | :57:10. | |
many, McIlroy. He hits them off-line occasionally. | :57:11. | :57:28. | |
Two 25-year-olds chatting about, I do not know, what do kids today chat | :57:29. | :57:39. | |
about? What kind of plane they want to buy! That is the comparison. Only | :57:40. | :57:47. | |
one area in which they are equal. Fowler is a very good player but not | :57:48. | :57:52. | |
in the same league as McIlroy in terms of achievements so far. There | :57:53. | :57:59. | |
four players 25 or less which has to be unusual in the Open. | :58:00. | :58:08. | |
He did not learn anything from Edoardo Molinari. | :58:09. | :58:17. | |
You would think he could tap it in from four inches with his normal | :58:18. | :58:26. | |
grip! Sometimes, with the really long ones, he does go to the normal | :58:27. | :58:27. | |
grip. Write down the line for Shane Lowry | :58:28. | :58:55. | |
at 18. Well done. A super round of golf. 10-under par, 65. Well done. | :58:56. | :59:13. | |
Ninth tee, 196 yard par-3, pin 26 yards on, five from the left. Fairly | :59:14. | :59:26. | |
tight. Doesn't look like a whole heap of club, looks like a seven or | :59:27. | :59:36. | |
eight. Too aggressive. And quite a steep bank there, not the easiest | :59:37. | :59:42. | |
chip at all. McIlroy going with a 7-iron for his second shot at the | :59:43. | :59:52. | |
8th will. The hole position, tucked over those two front bunkers. 178 | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
yards left. Lovely shot. Magnificent. Coming | :59:57. | :00:09. | |
down so softly. Yesterday he came Lovely shot. Magnificent. Coming | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
the left side and Drew and 8-iron into within a foot. Watch the | :00:21. | :00:30. | |
clubface impact as he goes through the ball. It delivers it. Drives | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
through naturally, superb. Same the ball. It delivers it. Drives | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
for Rickie Fowler, four yards closer. A grimace. All good for | :00:44. | :01:14. | |
distance, but tugged it a little bit. Robert Karlsson, he has a | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
couple of Eagles, birdies. One dropped shot at eight. I stress | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
again, only four behind. The man who hit the first shot of | :01:22. | :01:50. | |
The Open Championship. David Howell with an eagle attempt. | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
Playing with Stephen Gallacher who is 2-under for the day. David Howell | :01:59. | :02:20. | |
is now 4-under for the day. This will show you a bit of a trick | :02:21. | :02:39. | |
here. 3-wood or 5-wood, plays it back in his stance with a putting | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
action. Were you still on Tour when this became popular, Ken? No. The | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
first time I saw it was with Tiger Woods in the U.S. Open. There are so | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
many swales that the grass cannot get to the bottom is very unevenly | :03:01. | :03:11. | |
cut. Just chipped over the first bit. Because there is a bit more | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
volume there was a bit more impact. Less likely to hop around than a | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
putter. That was an interesting shot. | :03:25. | :03:51. | |
much break. Rickie Fowler needs something to happen. He needs a bit | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
of magic. Could this be it? Nice putt. | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
McIlroy, 15, Garcia at 12-under. Fowler at 11-under. Shane Lowry with | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
a brilliant round of 65, in the clubhouse at 10-under. | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
Garcia has not really put a foot wrong yet. This is crucial to keep | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
that momentum going. This is to be out in 3-under, 32. | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
Well done. Slightly on the left-hand side but he finds the bottom of the | :04:39. | :04:51. | |
cup. Out in 32, Sergio Garcia. Things | :04:52. | :05:06. | |
have changed, Peter. They certainly have. Things have started to happen. | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
It has been a rare afternoon for birdies. It has been a delight to | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
watch. But the home favourite is not getting too many. | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
Garcia was in the mix here some eight years ago and he's making the | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
biggest challenge. And he's getting a bit of help from this guy. Rory... | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
Pars still count right now. A real tussle going ahead. | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
Up ahead to 11. Yes! Jim Furyk. The old timer with an eagle at five and | :05:58. | :06:14. | |
now back-to-back birdies at ten and 11. | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
Dubuisson was out in 33. 2-under. This is his second shot to the | :06:24. | :06:37. | |
par-5. Just trying to roll it in from right to left. Another foot or | :06:38. | :06:49. | |
two and it would have slipped down the back but instead, that is good | :06:50. | :06:50. | |
now. Stephen Gallacher now at the 16th | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
for an eagle. No. We have had a swift nine holes at | :06:58. | :07:27. | |
one hour and 36 minutes, not bad for the final round of The Open. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Garcia's driving has been inaccurate. A joy to watch. Cross | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
breeze from the right here. The crowd loving that one. | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
It does count as a missed fairway, though. Rickie Fowler at the par-3 | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
9th hole. 196 yards. Fowler knocked it close in the first | :07:57. | :08:23. | |
two holes, and his has not knocked it close since. McIlroy also has an | :08:24. | :08:33. | |
8-iron, bend of the right, the wind slightly helping. | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
Looks OK. quick to me, his swing looked eager. | :08:41. | :09:06. | |
HAZEL IRVINE: It was only a couple of months ago we saw Shane Lowry | :09:07. | :09:29. | |
finish runner-up to Rory McIlroy at the PGA Championship at Wentworth | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
and he has featured once again strongly today after that lowest | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
score of the week, tying the best 65 in his third Open Championship. I'm | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
sure he's very delighted with his efforts. Let's find out. Shame, I | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
get the impression you enjoyed your afternoon's work. Yet, it was nice | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
out there. I played pretty much flawless today. Missed the green on | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
the first and got with a 9-iron and that got me going. Did not look back | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
from there. I left the range in anger this morning after my warm. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Did not hit a good shot in my warm up. I'd is left in anger, said I | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
would pick my targets and see what happens from there. I went out and | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
it worked. Is it a wonderful feeling being able to do that amid huge | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
galleries on the final day of The Open Championship? Yeah, 65 on the | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
final day of a major when you are up close to the top of the leaderboard, | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
enormous satisfaction. A major down the line, I know I can do it. | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
COMMENTATOR: I was fascinated, I was hoping you are listening rend you | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
are saying that he left the practice round 20 minutes before he was due | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
to play and he was cross with himself will stop -- when he was | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
saying. It is a load of old nonsense, you do what you do, | :11:02. | :11:11. | |
eagle attempt. Dubuisson has given that a crack. It races by. Could not | :11:12. | :11:21. | |
agree with you more, Peter. It is fascinating, if people could do it | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
at the drop of a hat you would make 100 at Lord's, score four goals, you | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
could do everything. But golf and sport is not like that. Fowler here, | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
it might go in, it might stay on the edge. He does not know. You do what | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
you do and see what happens. The best ones practice and they strike | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
it out of the middle of the bat more often than not and things happen. It | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
is very difficult but very simple. He will have that to stay at 1-under | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
but he has gained ground on Rory. Very aware of it. Adam Scott with a | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
perfect tee shot. A little on the upslope. Kicks it close. Wonderful | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
shot. Wonderful result, beautifully played. Had the right amount of zip | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
and check. Rory, time for a putter. Birdie opportunity. Showed go | :12:28. | :12:38. | |
left... ! Oh, yes! He needed that. The right time for McIlroy at the | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
9th hole. Huge applause for him from everyone. APPLAUSE | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
CHEERING That's more like it. The crowd can | :12:49. | :12:58. | |
tell you the whole story. Just when he needed it most he found | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
something. That putt was travelling. It would have gone four, five feet | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
past, but it didn't. It went in the hole. | :13:09. | :13:18. | |
Rickie Fowler's job just got a little harder. Four shot lead again. | :13:19. | :13:34. | |
Nine holes to go. Still some dangerous holes to come, not least | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
of which in the last two or three. Well, a poor mess, just when he was | :13:37. | :14:03. | |
making a move. Molinari failed to capitalise on his so they all tread | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
water for a moment. That was the drive of Garcia. He must have heard | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
the noise back at nine. Absolutely. In this match we are all walking | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
with a crypt in our next looking backwards. Garcia, two to eight, | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
just in the semi-rough. This cross breeze is freshening and it makes | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
some of the shots into the green is extraordinarily tricky. The pin is | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
in the back right corner. Good shot. Steady... That was a | :14:40. | :15:01. | |
glorious iron. Struck the ball majestically this afternoon. All the | :15:02. | :15:13. | |
way back on the tee. Phil Parkinson, not the driver this time. Yeah, with | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
the breeze helping I think it would go too far. And if you run out of | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
fairway it is way down, talking 340, 350. If he had the driver he would | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
go past it with this helping wind. A par-5 that is reachable. | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
Oh, special brew. Rickie Fowler started off great, didn't he, | :15:41. | :16:12. | |
knocking close at the 1st and birdied the second but since then he | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
has not been able to knock it close to the hole. A good opportunity at | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
ten for an eagle chance if he hits the fairway here. They like it at | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
that end. A couple of dangerous bunkers up by the green. If you go | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
down the right you can drop a shot very quickly. Big cheers for Rory. | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
Away they go. Jim Furyk using his knees here. Done | :16:43. | :17:17. | |
well through the chip shot. It's the way Tom Watson used to chip. He shot | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
68 today. Well, still the pot is bubbling. The | :17:21. | :17:54. | |
second chip. This will be expensive. Robert Karlsson was going along so | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
beautifully but rather a wayward and stronger, more strong than wayward, | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
and he will lose some shots here to put him back in the pack. See how | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
quickly things can happen. You never know when they will happen. That's | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
why the more you can control your thoughts and game and play within | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
yourself at times, the better player you are. And the best of that in my | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
lifetime without doubt has been Jack Nicklaus. Fifth shot now. Down in | :18:29. | :18:47. | |
two. Cut your losses. Looks good. Delightful. Delightful little | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
shocked. They couple of shots dropped on the par-4. | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
Chance to cut into the lead, this is for eagle. | :19:04. | :19:13. | |
APPLAUSE His concentration is very deep. | :19:14. | :19:31. | |
Battling his own demons. His concentration is very deep. | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
whole they have been pretty pleasant demons but he's had one or two | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
chances in this Championship, just not been able to do it. He might | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
have a shave tonight if he wins this. Up ahead at 17, the Scotsman. | :19:50. | :19:59. | |
He is four under today. Maybe pop another one in at 18. Having a good | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
Open Championship. Three birdies in the last four. Yeah, both balls in | :20:07. | :20:15. | |
really good condition on the upslope. 230 and 228 to the hole, | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
downwind, so you're talking a 6-iron, 5-iron. That big bunker on | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
the right is the killer. It gathers the ball in from there. It is a | :20:29. | :20:37. | |
par-5, remember. All is not lost if you take five but in trying to force | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
three or four, you can take seven, and it is very easily done. Waiting | :20:43. | :20:54. | |
for the green to clear. Dustin putts. I thought it was going to | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
miss left but it's a birdie and he goes to 9-under. Greens cleared. | :20:59. | :21:13. | |
It is a 5-iron for Rory. He was trying to launch it. Just caught on | :21:14. | :21:29. | |
the little upslope but still good. May I suggest that is his favourite | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
18th last night was majestic and so was that. I think he's back on | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
track. Just went down a side junction for ten minutes or so. | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
Fowler now. Also a 5-iron, 207 to the front edge. 228 altogether. | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
Also very good. APPLAUSE A little bit nearer, I fancy. Two | :22:03. | :22:16. | |
excellent shots. Right next to that green, Sergio waited. Just an iron | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
down here, a little plateau down here. Starts down the right. | :22:24. | :22:33. | |
That's not too bad. The couple of holes at this end go right into the | :22:34. | :22:47. | |
corner of the property and you get a run along the seashore. Coming to | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
the final three or four holes. A lot of the holes crisscross so the wind | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
is not constant. It crosses many holes. The par-3 13th. | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
Doesn't look like there will be four straight 40 plus year old 's | :23:11. | :23:28. | |
winning. Steady. OK. Well, the crowd are certainly getting their money's | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
worth so far. Dubuisson at the 11th. Three putted from not so far but | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
that is a beauty. What a lovely shot. He's been a revelation since | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
he suddenly popped up at the Turkish Open Championship. David Howe at 18. | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
Four under for his round. Try to loft it over the bunkers. Hit the | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
flag... Oh. Just keeping an eye on which the way that turned after it | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
went by. Good to see him get his game all the way back. Peter, with | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
these new stands, the screen is completely enclosed this year. | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
Marvellous look. It also shelters it when the wind is blowing. They say | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
there are 7000-8000 people, but I think it looks like more. But that | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
is still a good number will round one green. Molinari at 10-under. He | :24:42. | :24:55. | |
birdied seven, eight and nine. Nice to see him back in the fray. A fewer | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
injuries and niggles and one thing and another. A long putts at 12 for | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
Adam Scott. He putts very well with his long machine. Looks good with | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
it. Only one more year to use it. McIlroy now. This for eagle. It | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
should move a little left. Oh, nice effort. That would have been great | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
after birdie at the last. But two birdies in a row. Just a little more | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
pace, another foot of speed on that and it might well have gone in. But | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
four on this very treacherous 10th hole is OK. | :25:46. | :26:04. | |
Rickie Fowler currently at 11-under. Three behind Garcia. Ahead of that | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
group at 10-under. Yeah, this eagle should really move a little bit | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
right for Fowler. Well, it did and he didn't notice it. A nice birdie | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
four. There has been a tremendous amount | :26:27. | :26:58. | |
of Eagles this afternoon. Six in the last five games. A good lie for | :26:59. | :27:10. | |
Sergio here at the right of 11. 151 yards to go. The pin is rarely | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
tucked in on the left to tempt the players. In beside the bunker and a | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
steep falloff from the green. He mustn't be seduced by going for it. | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Anything 15 feet right or so would give him a good chance of birdie. | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
You're right, Maureen, if he goes left of the flag there will be | :27:29. | :27:36. | |
problems. I think there was a flash there, a photograph taken from | :27:37. | :27:37. | |
somebody. They all look innocent. Not me, | :27:38. | :27:47. | |
Sir. Please, please be good! Didn't have | :27:48. | :28:18. | |
one of those listening balls. Good line, no strength. | :28:19. | :28:36. | |
let's see if he can make one. A little right. | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
He has played very well today, he has had a good week. Good playing. | :28:44. | :28:54. | |
He is heading for Gleneagles and the Ryder Cup matches. The Gleneagles | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
Hotel in September. He is certain to be there with this sort of finish, | :29:00. | :29:06. | |
the way he has been playing. The next four holes into the wind so | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
this final group have to start hitting great shots. Demanding | :29:11. | :29:18. | |
holes, especially 12, 14 and 13. This is under 400 yards, into the | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
breeze. McIlroy is first up. If he can get it on the plateau, it | :29:22. | :29:35. | |
will not be a blind second shot. Six yards short. A little bit blind. | :29:36. | :29:46. | |
Upto the 18th, David Howell finishing off. -- up to. To go to | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
9-under for the Championship. That is good. A good week. The equivalent | :29:54. | :30:02. | |
of four 70s, good playing. Rickie Fowler. This is where his shotmaking | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
ability will help in the last four holes. | :30:09. | :30:22. | |
They both found the fairway at this par four. A little bridge in front | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
of them. It protects the flag. Looking up the scoring at these four | :30:29. | :30:46. | |
holes, 11, 12, 13 and 14, and lot of shots have been dropped over these | :30:47. | :30:53. | |
holes. If you birdies. More drop shots than birdies. -- a couple of | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
birdies. Ryan Moore, can he pitch it close? The flag is on the left. | :30:59. | :31:07. | |
It looks close, it looks very close. Is that close enough for you, Frank? | :31:08. | :31:21. | |
That will do! That will do. Eagle! The 16th. The tide is out. He is at | :31:22. | :31:33. | |
the 15th, I was told the 16th. Beautiful shot. Marc Leishman. | :31:34. | :31:45. | |
Some of these putts are difficult to read, I do not see much in this. I | :31:46. | :31:56. | |
would say it has to move a little from his left. He really thought the | :31:57. | :32:04. | |
would say it has to move a little That is a very wide effort, big | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
swing, look at S! I thought it was at least one foot too wide. -- | :32:08. | :32:42. | |
Once again in the hunt, with nine to go. Or should I say on the back | :32:43. | :32:52. | |
nine? So many times over the last ten years, he has been in this | :32:53. | :32:53. | |
situation, chasing. The 12th hole. Victor Dubuisson. | :32:54. | :33:39. | |
From the sticky stuff. What is it like, Scott? Quite wispy, it is into | :33:40. | :33:48. | |
the breeze. The temperature has dropped a little bit. This is a | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
tight left pin. In the middle of the green, he will be happy with this. | :33:55. | :34:00. | |
Now Rory, the same sort of shot. Over the bank. Both exactly the | :34:01. | :34:47. | |
same. That has rolled right up against the | :34:48. | :34:55. | |
corner of that rough. Just makes the par, just makes it a | :34:56. | :35:14. | |
little bit more difficult. He just missed the green. Sergio on the 12th | :35:15. | :35:26. | |
tee. 447 yards, a good, strong par four. Ideally, if he can aim it at | :35:27. | :35:35. | |
the 1st bunker and turn it left, that would be key. The fairway | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
slopes a little left to right as well. | :35:43. | :35:58. | |
You can see that is what is making the tee shot harder. Three bunkers | :35:59. | :36:08. | |
in the distance. Left to right. So a low draw. | :36:09. | :36:24. | |
Just caught a little tail to it and trying to take it over the corner. | :36:25. | :36:50. | |
There is no surprise that Rory got the putter out. Trying to chip it in | :36:51. | :36:58. | |
might have been a problem but using the putter from this lie, there is | :36:59. | :37:05. | |
only a little slope to go over so it should not be too much trouble. It | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
will break to the right when it gets onto the green. | :37:10. | :37:38. | |
Rickie will have seen that and he might think, I will give mine a bit | :37:39. | :37:48. | |
more. Victor Dubuisson with a pretty good chance here, down the hill. | :37:49. | :37:59. | |
He dropped a shot at the opening hole. And he had an eagle and one | :38:00. | :38:08. | |
birdie. Pretty steady. He is 10-under. Very much in the frame for | :38:09. | :38:17. | |
a good price. Back to Fowler. -- prize. This will help a little bit | :38:18. | :38:27. | |
to see the pace and the direction of McIlroy's putt, this for a birdie. | :38:28. | :38:38. | |
Deck -- getting closer, not hard enough. Good shot. A safe par. | :38:39. | :38:57. | |
McIlroy is left with one of those very nasty sort of length putts for | :38:58. | :39:09. | |
a par. Over eight feet. Meanwhile, Graeme McDowell... | :39:10. | :39:15. | |
When he finishes, he will hang around with his good friend as well | :39:16. | :39:33. | |
to see the final outcome. We are seeing there is quite a little | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
movement going right on this, McIlroy. | :39:39. | :39:45. | |
What a lovely, confidence, smooth stroke that was! No hesitation. | :39:46. | :39:57. | |
Confident. These two play quick as well, Peter. Very refreshing. | :39:58. | :40:05. | |
Wonderful how the cameramen scamper about. Nearly 200 cameras here, I am | :40:06. | :40:15. | |
told. They come from all over the world. Tremendous interest in the | :40:16. | :40:26. | |
Far East. Men and women's golf. Par five, the 16th. Australian Marc | :40:27. | :40:36. | |
Leishman. Very nearly makes eagle. Does he ply his trade all the time | :40:37. | :40:39. | |
in the United States? Yes, he does, Peter. Does he do all right? He won | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
Rookie of the Year four years ago and he got closed -- he got close at | :40:47. | :40:53. | |
Augusta. The Australians have done well. He turned himself into a very | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
solid player. The chance of a lie for Garcia here. | :40:59. | :41:12. | |
175 yards to go. We playing more into the normal prevailing wind | :41:13. | :41:15. | |
here. -- we are playing. This is a 6-iron. The left half of the green | :41:16. | :41:26. | |
is good. The best he has ever done on a Sunday, 69, he is well ahead of | :41:27. | :41:28. | |
that pace right now. If it comes out normal, that is how | :41:29. | :41:56. | |
to play. That is the voice of his caddy, giving him all the | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
information. This is a key shot right now. It has been so | :42:01. | :42:05. | |
interesting on this section of the course, Garcia can literally see the | :42:06. | :42:11. | |
shots Rory is playing. It is almost like they are in the same group | :42:12. | :42:12. | |
sometimes. You never know, it clapped, it might | :42:13. | :42:40. | |
have bounced towards the green. Look at that. Lucky, Lucky Lucky Jim. I | :42:41. | :42:48. | |
do not think it touched anybody, which is even luckier. And he did | :42:49. | :42:59. | |
shout. That was 40 yards off-line. Without the grandstand, that might | :43:00. | :43:02. | |
have been in Timbuktu. He could have been in all sorts of trouble. We are | :43:03. | :43:05. | |
watching back here at the tee and we been in all sorts of trouble. We are | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
could hear moans and groans and we did not know what was happening. But | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
McIlroy does not know. He needs a good tee shot here, into the wind. | :43:16. | :43:23. | |
These next 45 minutes, these guys have to hit some great shots. It is | :43:24. | :43:25. | |
so difficult now, into this have to hit some great shots. It is | :43:26. | :43:28. | |
is getting cooler. He is talking to it, and it | :43:29. | :43:44. | |
listened. That is as good a tee shot as we have seen all day. | :43:45. | :43:52. | |
Just the way he comes into the ball. You can see, there is no | :43:53. | :44:03. | |
steering, no hint of control. A full-blooded hit. Fowler. | :44:04. | :44:23. | |
McIlroy, still in control of things at the moment. Here he is after a | :44:24. | :44:49. | |
splendid tee shot. The next two or three holes are very crucial because | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
they are very difficult. We saw the chip of Marc Leishman. 11-under, | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
that puts him in fourth place at the moment. | :45:01. | :45:08. | |
Garcia's chip, having come in off the grandstand. He has played it | :45:09. | :45:11. | |
nicely. A very nice shot. Another major winner, Charl | :45:12. | :45:39. | |
Schwartzel. A wonderful shot to get it this close. Always good. | :45:40. | :45:51. | |
What an afternoon we have been enjoying here at Royal Liverpool at | :45:52. | :45:59. | |
Hoylake. Rory Mclroy started the day with a six shot lead and it is now | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
three. Garcia has got within two and it has been related stuff. There | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
birdies and eagles everywhere. Rest of the field has given chase in | :46:11. | :46:15. | |
their best possible efforts this afternoon -- the rest. Robert | :46:16. | :46:22. | |
Karlsson got a couple of eagles in his round. He is currently 3-under | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
right now. Adam Scott, world number one, 3-under for his round but | :46:27. | :46:33. | |
unable to get beyond 9-under par, the man fancied to win here at Royal | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
Liverpool. Dustin Johnson, birdie putt. I love | :46:39. | :46:50. | |
these long, free swinging putts. A beautiful/he has got. Sweet as a | :46:51. | :46:52. | |
knot. -- hit. Now Garcia. To hold his position. | :46:53. | :47:16. | |
Yes, he does! Rather fortunate. A very wild second shot, it did not | :47:17. | :47:25. | |
hit anybody, but it might do now. Got down in two. He is holding his | :47:26. | :47:32. | |
position. Three shots behind McIlroy. | :47:33. | :47:48. | |
There is a lot of noise, I do not know how much of that is genuine | :47:49. | :47:55. | |
affection for Garcia or the local brew taking affect! A 4-iron | :47:56. | :48:02. | |
required for Rickie Fowler's second 12th. Fowler, and I am on my way out | :48:03. | :48:14. | |
of here because Ken Brown is back. Can James be far-away? | :48:15. | :48:26. | |
What a final day we have, what a contest. McIlroy starting the day | :48:27. | :48:34. | |
six clear, three now, ahead of Sergio Garcia. Rickie Fowler not far | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
adrift. Ideal tee shot here the Rory McIlroy. JP doing his work and | :48:40. | :48:49. | |
silencing the crowd. A tough run of holes, 11th. It is, but after a tee | :48:50. | :48:58. | |
shot like this, into the wind, difficult to get close on that left | :48:59. | :48:59. | |
side. Nicely done. Superb shot. He cannot | :49:00. | :49:15. | |
afford to drag it left on his second hit. Into the long grass. | :49:16. | :49:28. | |
Wondering at the 12th, it gives you an ADA of the dog left, quite hard | :49:29. | :49:38. | |
from right to left. -- idea of the dog like. Swinging really nicely. He | :49:39. | :49:45. | |
just played that back a little bit to drill it forward. It did require | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
-- it did climb higher than anticipated, but well controlled. | :49:51. | :49:59. | |
Victor Dubuisson, 9-under. 9-under now. Distant hopes for him anyway, | :50:00. | :50:09. | |
but he has been stalling for a while now. Slipping away. But the | :50:10. | :50:18. | |
atmosphere is lifting here. At Royal Liverpool, Hoylake. You can hear the | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
noise for the favourites. Dustin Johnson now. | :50:23. | :50:31. | |
It has got just a little bit cooler. And we can see the 12th green behind | :50:32. | :50:54. | |
and the 13th tee, and big crowds. It is a great advantage | :50:55. | :51:13. | |
Garcia to go second because Johnson's 6-iron will, or well short | :51:14. | :51:20. | |
of the green. 183 yards. -- will come up well short. This is a | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
7-iron, a big hit into this wind. A bit steep. That is another big | :51:25. | :51:43. | |
break. He got a big break on the first and he is just OK. | :51:44. | :51:53. | |
Angry stuff for Fowler. He has got to hold firm on nose. Go on. -- on | :51:54. | :51:58. | |
those. Not too bad. Adam Scott. Let's see what | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
do. He has left himself a lot Adam Scott. Let's see what | :52:05. | :52:16. | |
after his second round. That is another one in. Birdie on the 14th, | :52:17. | :52:23. | |
three in the last five holes, 10-under par. Tied for fifth at the | :52:24. | :52:31. | |
moment. McIlroy for birdie, at 14. | :52:32. | :52:44. | |
He has given himself a bit more of a question. -- crush on. Another one | :52:45. | :52:52. | |
down, closer. He seems to have settled down, | :52:53. | :53:10. | |
playing on instinct now and not doing too much thinking, just | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
letting the swing work. It just needed hitting. Give it a bit more | :53:15. | :53:21. | |
and suddenly it is three foot past and you do not want to do that. This | :53:22. | :53:28. | |
hole is a great example of wide McIlroy is doing so well. He | :53:29. | :53:32. | |
challenged the tee shot and made McIlroy is doing so well. He | :53:33. | :53:36. | |
so much easier. Rickie Fowler played it safe, he had too much to do and | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
he is struggling to make a safe par. He needs it, he has it. Fowler | :53:42. | :53:49. | |
hanging in there! Good up and down from the side of the 12th, down in | :53:50. | :53:53. | |
that rough. Five behind and still fighting. | :53:54. | :54:01. | |
Both players underestimating fighting. | :54:02. | :54:05. | |
strength of this wind. A straightforward chip for Johnson, | :54:06. | :54:13. | |
very well executed. Making it look simple. A similar sort of shot for | :54:14. | :54:21. | |
Garcia. Just a little tougher. A little ball downhill. | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
Jim Furyk. Two and he is sweeping up the birdies, three into -- three in | :54:27. | :54:44. | |
his last six. Interesting he is chipping this, I | :54:45. | :54:49. | |
saw it as a putt for Garcia because he has used the blade so well. He | :54:50. | :54:55. | |
just releases his right hand to get it to run up the slope. A splendid | :54:56. | :55:03. | |
looking card. Three birdies, one eagle. The holes are starting to run | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
out. A couple of good breaks. 12 at the | :55:09. | :55:34. | |
grandstand, 13, avoiding that trap. He still has a chance. | :55:35. | :55:43. | |
Dustin Johnson. In for a par. Playing for places in the top ten | :55:44. | :55:59. | |
now. So they move clear and the final pairing of Rory McIlroy and | :56:00. | :56:09. | |
Rickie Fowler, and it is McIlroy. Six holes to play, three shots | :56:10. | :56:10. | |
clear. The crowd are starting to get really | :56:11. | :56:23. | |
rowdy everywhere these players are going. Realising that they are | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
getting close to the end and every shot counts. McIlroy with a 6-iron | :56:30. | :56:31. | |
into the wind, 183 yards. Is he going for the green? My | :56:32. | :57:00. | |
goodness! Some of that is very thick, particularly that wide. I do | :57:01. | :57:08. | |
not know what he is trying to do. It looked like he was trying to hit a | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
high, soft draw, which is a cavalier shot at the best of times. It is | :57:15. | :57:23. | |
wide and short as well. He is going to have to give himself a talking to | :57:24. | :57:28. | |
after that, the worst shot I have seen him hit all week. But plenty of | :57:29. | :57:33. | |
green to work with. And now Rickie Fowler with a 6-iron also. Taking | :57:34. | :57:38. | |
the positives out of that, as you have to do. Rickie Fowler, does he | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
see an opening? Can he make something of it and put the pressure | :57:45. | :57:57. | |
on? No. That is way short. Both hitting 6-irons. Sergio Garcia had a | :57:58. | :58:06. | |
7-iron. Still a spring in his step. But some dangling of the nerves as | :58:07. | :58:13. | |
well. -- jangling. Different wind for these holes. On 12, 13 and 14. | :58:14. | :58:24. | |
Before they turn a corner at 15. Jack Nicklaus one more than two | :58:25. | :58:31. | |
Majors by the age of 25. Really rare. The 15th, Adam Scott. A little | :58:32. | :58:39. | |
left-to-right breeze on this. Marc Leishman on 17, this is for his | :58:40. | :59:03. | |
par. And nicely done. He stays at 11-under, the par 18th to come. He | :59:04. | :59:17. | |
needs eagle. Looking at the flags to see whether breeze is coming from, | :59:18. | :59:23. | |
or maybe some noise. -- where the breeze. At this time of the day, | :59:24. | :59:25. | |
people have had a nice lunch. the galleries are streaming over the | :59:26. | :59:51. | |
green, there is a heck of a noise going on. It is disgraceful. 14th | :59:52. | :00:01. | |
the hardest hole in the back nine. Going for the low fade. Big divots. | :00:02. | :00:19. | |
Firing it into a perfect position. Going for the low fade. Big divots. | :00:20. | :00:32. | |
Firing it into Rory McIlroy was just about to hit it then we had the | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
applause from Sergio Garcia. Be careful here. It's all right. | :00:35. | :00:52. | |
That could have gone trickling down the slope. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
Looking at the scoreboard, he was. Does he normally wear a glove for | :01:00. | :01:15. | |
long shots? Usually. Strange one to take it off on. Beautifully played. | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
The standard of chipping is almost beyond belief. Absolutely amazing. | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
There is nothing like the seaside brass, it is such a predictable | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
bounce. -- seaside grass. Too little, too late for Adam | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
Scott. It is getting very animated out | :01:49. | :02:03. | |
there. The crowd are getting excited. | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
What a great week it has been for Ryan Moore. This would take him to | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
10-under. Unlucky. Nice little finish. Trying to save | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
par. Still got the par-5s. Super | :02:24. | :03:08. | |
up-and-down for Rickie Fowler. Keeping himself in there, 12-under. | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
Who has got the nerve? Who gets a bit of luck at the right moment? | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
Sergio Garcia has had some very good fortune. Has kept himself in there. | :03:28. | :03:39. | |
Everybody wants a bit of Rory McIlroy as he uses his way through | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the corridor of spectators, but he has eight two shot lead -- he has | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
the two shot lead with five holes to go. Sergio Garcia is hot on his | :03:54. | :04:03. | |
heels. This had the same shape as the 12th. 172 yards up the hill into | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
an ever freshening breeze, needs to strike this really well. | :04:14. | :04:28. | |
As soon as they turn into the wind, the last couple of groups have been | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
struggling to get to the front of the green, let alone the pen. | :04:34. | :05:07. | |
will have a chance, you know. They will be enjoying this down under. | :05:08. | :05:19. | |
I feel Dustin Johnson could do well with an eight. | :05:20. | :05:48. | |
The course is beautifully presented, absolutely stunning. Congratulations | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
everybody who has been involved. It has been a delight. | :05:55. | :06:22. | |
between Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy but between Sergio Garcia | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
and Rory McIlroy. You cannot sit back, because this is directly into | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
the wind. You need to get close to the bunkers. | :06:38. | :06:49. | |
Wasn't that a wonderful shot? Absolutely beautiful. He had his | :06:50. | :07:01. | |
problems, but he is still playing decent golf. These bad shots have | :07:02. | :07:16. | |
cost him. Five to play, he has the two shot lead. This is the hardest | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
hole, it has only given away six birdies and plenty bogeys. | :07:26. | :07:39. | |
I won't say winning Majors is easy, even though he has made it look so | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
before, but this is hard graft. 12-under par, he will set the | :07:46. | :08:06. | |
target. What a wonderful finish for the Australian. Seven birdies in | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
total. Now alongside a Rickie Fowler, just for behind Rory | :08:16. | :08:16. | |
McIlroy. This is for a round of 73. | :08:17. | :08:38. | |
Disappointing last round for Jimmy Walker. | :08:39. | :08:52. | |
He tops the FedEx cup points in the United States, we will see him at | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
Gleneagles. It has been a wonderful round of | :08:57. | :09:27. | |
golf, good scoring from all these players. Many scorers below 70. | :09:28. | :09:41. | |
He has hit a very solid... That was a beautiful part. Pretty slow. He | :09:42. | :09:56. | |
He has hit a very solid... That was had an excess of adrenaline and we | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
get bashed a little bit ago. He was jumping around like a nutcase. -- he | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
had an excess of adrenaline little bit ago. | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
Quickly to Dustin Johnson. Remaining 10-under. | :10:16. | :10:42. | |
He is moving into the scoring section. These are very much birdie | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
opportunities. He will have to make some. He needs to play the last few | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
holes at worse 2-under. I think he can smell it, only five | :10:55. | :11:08. | |
holes. Edoardo Molinari looking to move out | :11:09. | :11:42. | |
of the pack. Nice to see him back and playing | :11:43. | :12:03. | |
well in a major Championship. Victor Nice to see him back and playing | :12:04. | :12:20. | |
Dubuisson is slipping further away to 8-under. | :12:21. | :12:29. | |
Jim Furyk for birdie on 16. This is to go to 12-under. He could set a | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
target if he can find something. Marc Leishman in the clubhouse at | :12:41. | :12:41. | |
12. Beautiful shot. Chance to save par. | :12:42. | :12:56. | |
He needs more than that now. I wonder if any last group in the | :12:57. | :13:32. | |
open has had under 50 years between the two of them. They are exactly | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
50. This is arguably the easiest of the | :13:35. | :13:47. | |
par-3s. If he wants to lift this title it is time to put the | :13:48. | :14:03. | |
afterburners on. The pin on the 15th is to the left. The wind does not | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
make it easy to get that. It sounded funny, that one. That was | :14:06. | :14:37. | |
a bad shot from that range. It sounded funny, that one. That was | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
McIlroy is hoping for a good one here. This is for the birdie. That | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
was not 1 million miles away. Never a bad thing. One more in the bag. | :14:59. | :15:29. | |
That is when you need a good man behind you, a good caddy, who can | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
chat to you when everything is not normal. Very good from Rickie | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
Fowler. Just an outside chance. Right now it is about Sergio Garcia. | :15:41. | :16:17. | |
Has he got a chance at the bunker? I love this, Rory McIlroy will see | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
Sergio Garcia going into the sand, that will help his spirits no end. | :16:23. | :16:38. | |
There's going to be a decent weight. It is a good life. As that | :16:39. | :16:56. | |
ended his challenge? That was pretty much inexcusable. It is uphill, past | :16:57. | :17:12. | |
the hole. Very bad shot. He should have made that. Simple. | :17:13. | :17:30. | |
Looks like it will be a bogey. All the while, Rory McIlroy watches. It | :17:31. | :17:53. | |
did not look tricky. It was not tricky. | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
He has had a couple of good breaks so he certainly can't complain. Has | :18:01. | :18:12. | |
that given Rory McIlroy a lot of heart? I think it will. | :18:13. | :18:24. | |
Dustin Johnson has not been able to get anything going today, but this | :18:25. | :18:48. | |
is a great birdie chance, not a great deal of movement. Right in the | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
middle of it. He is at 11-under. He does have the power to reach them. | :18:59. | :19:09. | |
He may need to go better in the last few holes. | :19:10. | :19:25. | |
Costly, on the shortest hole on the course. Slips back to three behind. | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
At the start of the day, needed a flawless round, that was the first | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
mistake he has made. A lot of clutter to clear away and | :19:42. | :19:59. | |
think about things. Understandably, looks a little dry throated. Eagle | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
putt on the last, Graeme McDowell. Yes. Top ten finish for Graeme | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
McDowell. It was not going to be his day. What a finish that is. Birdie, | :20:19. | :20:32. | |
birdie, birdie, par, eagle. It shows you what can be done on those final | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
few holes. Rickie Fowler with a 9-iron. | :20:39. | :20:55. | |
It is a decent shot, but these two have not hit many shots close to the | :20:56. | :21:05. | |
hole in this round. Rickie Fowler is 2-under for the day, Rory McIlroy is | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
level. You have to try and hold it into the breeze. | :21:14. | :21:27. | |
He will take a three shot lead into the last few holes unless something | :21:28. | :21:56. | |
very odd happens. Justin Rose, chance for a birdie, unlucky. | :21:57. | :22:43. | |
Jim Furyk is a little bit too far behind. | :22:44. | :23:00. | |
Down wind, Dustin Johnson has got the driver out, he can really reduce | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
this whole to nothing if we gets hold of it. | :23:11. | :23:31. | |
Time for Sergio Garcia to regroup and put that behind him. He can | :23:32. | :23:56. | |
still pick up a few shots in the last three holes. Must find the | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
fairway. Sergio Garcia has hit that almost | :24:03. | :24:20. | |
300 yards but Dustin Johnson is quite far past him. Rickie Fowler | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
for the birdie. He moves to 13. Well done. They are queueing up. Rory | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
still has the lead. This is his speciality so it will be | :24:32. | :25:03. | |
exciting to see what he does off the tee, and if he was to roll this one | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
in it would relax him more for it. To be fair, 16 and 18 are very easy | :25:08. | :25:17. | |
holes to make par To be fair, 16 and 18 are very easy | :25:18. | :25:50. | |
playing for that. The others have got to make a move towards him. | :25:51. | :26:07. | |
Otherwise it is simple. Bernard Gallacher there, just got out of the | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
picture on your left. Good to see him fighting fit again | :26:10. | :26:18. | |
after It is quite a walk | :26:19. | :26:36. | |
tee. You will get a big cheer when you walk onto it in this situation. | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
The crowd are spurring him on, they can taste of victory for him. He | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
knows he is getting closer and closer. | :26:46. | :27:07. | |
Unlucky. It has been a good week for him. | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
Bit of waiting on the 16th tee. Drivers for Rory McIlroy. Darren | :27:18. | :27:59. | |
Clarke now. That was to get where he started, | :28:00. | :28:21. | |
5-under par for the day. It has been costly for Darren Clarke. 73. | :28:22. | :28:30. | |
I'm sure he will wait around to see if Rory McIlroy can do what he did | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
three years ago. No problems here. Nice short one for | :28:36. | :28:57. | |
birdie and a round of 67 the Charles Schwarz. Currently in second -- | :28:58. | :29:13. | |
number six. Adam Scott with a chance to get to 12. He has played well | :29:14. | :29:23. | |
today. Seven birdies in total. Blemish of a double-bogey on the | :29:24. | :29:39. | |
seventh. Another high place finish in the opening Championship. -- Open | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
Championships. The group ahead up on the fairway. | :29:45. | :29:55. | |
The wait goes on. It is all of a sudden got congested. And on the | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
wire, apart from the couple of par-5s which are very reachable. | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
What is happening, Maureen? 244 to the flag. Downwind. This is a 6-iron | :30:06. | :30:19. | |
for Garcia. He needs an eagle. It's a good shot and he has a chance. | :30:20. | :30:21. | |
Fine play And would be surprised if Dustin | :30:22. | :30:38. | |
Johnson has more than a wedge. After that huge drive at Augusta... 34 | :30:39. | :30:53. | |
yards. This can be much. No. He's just send the tee shot 366 yards. | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
210 to go. That is evident from that distance. | :30:57. | :31:18. | |
-- evidence. But the fairway is cleared. Ready for the final group. | :31:19. | :31:29. | |
You can see the advantage a nice tee shot will give you at 16. Rickie | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
Fowler knows what he needs to do. Looking a little anxious. Will it | :31:35. | :31:52. | |
get a nice bounce? That shot just drifted a little to | :31:53. | :32:08. | |
the right. I've got the wind was downwind, but it is coming from the | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
left slightly. -- I thought the wind. Michael Wright might have this | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
a long way. -- remarkably. Absolutely majestic. Superbly | :32:16. | :32:47. | |
struck. Someone crying out, almost a certain birdie. No problem. Striding | :32:48. | :33:01. | |
out. And that was a gem. Almost a certain birdie. | :33:02. | :33:15. | |
It has been one of the best days, best final days I have seen for a | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
few years. A superb week. Then he goes. Come with us. When we started, | :33:23. | :33:33. | |
we thought he had run away with things. Think we're going to have | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
somebody ejected. It happens very rarely. We thought it might be a | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
runaway but it hasn't. So many people have played so well. Rory is | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
working very hard at the moment. He still has a lot of work to do. Jim | :33:48. | :33:49. | |
Furyk on the last. In nasty spot, the corner of that | :33:50. | :34:11. | |
front bunker. Sergio Garcia has gone under the | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
ropes on the 16th. After a bloke in the crowd, heckling him. Dustin | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
Johnson at the moment is playing a chip shot. There is no sign of | :34:23. | :34:29. | |
Garcia. I don't believe it. My goodness. He has lost his caddy. Did | :34:30. | :34:41. | |
that young fellow, Eric Cantona, do a similar thinking man did he not | :34:42. | :34:47. | |
enter the arena of the spectators? He is looking around, hopefully, for | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
Sergio Garcia. And he is not in sight. Here comes. He has entered | :34:54. | :35:00. | |
the arena. We will have to find out whether that was just a very urgent | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
pit stop, but he did request a Marshall to accompany him. There | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
have been some rockers cries from the gallery. -- Rockettes. At | :35:10. | :35:23. | |
inopportune times. It is very unusual. Unless it is anti-Spanish, | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
I don't know why that would be. Maybe he has just gone for a, | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
nature. -- call of nature. Something we are not familiar with. In our | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
fuddy-duddy old world. Not bad for 14-under. What a good | :35:39. | :36:03. | |
effort. When everything is done well this week, the weather alert worked | :36:04. | :36:10. | |
out all right. Everything has gone well. Still an hour to go at least. | :36:11. | :36:28. | |
It seems that all is well in the Garcia world. I think it was an | :36:29. | :36:37. | |
urgent pit stop on 16. But he has a great chance now. He really have to | :36:38. | :36:40. | |
hold this if he wants to lift the title. I've seldom seen the putting | :36:41. | :36:47. | |
surface at an open Championship so good late on a Sunday. | :36:48. | :37:09. | |
Garcia gets within two of McIlroy's 60 number. -- 16-under. | :37:10. | :37:57. | |
Jim Furyk replacing his ball on the 18th. He has had a good round. Out | :37:58. | :38:16. | |
in 33, all partners. -- pars. 65 blows. Well done, Sir. | :38:17. | :38:37. | |
Tied for third would be his best ever open finish. Dustin Johnson for | :38:38. | :38:46. | |
a birdie. And he also wrote one end. -- rolls and one in. | :38:47. | :39:03. | |
It came down softly, but on the front right of the putting surface. | :39:04. | :39:12. | |
It was coming from such a height. Hanging in there like a conduct. -- | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
Condor. Adam Scott, it might be a little | :39:17. | :39:36. | |
strong. Good shot. Ten yards to fire. -- to | :39:37. | :39:57. | |
fire. Dustin Johnson has really come to light on this back nine. A | :39:58. | :40:05. | |
wonderful birdie on 16. 17, the last difficult hole on the course. | :40:06. | :40:13. | |
Groans. What on earth. Where did that come from? That was an absolute | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
stinker. What you make of that? I do not know | :40:17. | :40:25. | |
where it came from. The favourite 3-wood is out for | :40:26. | :40:48. | |
Garcia. I do not know where Dustin's tee shot came from. His | :40:49. | :40:54. | |
hand was off the club before he made contact, virtually. Sergio Garcia's | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
focus has been good today. Bunker left and right, he needs to split | :40:59. | :41:00. | |
the fairway. Not too much spin. Lovely. Some | :41:01. | :41:41. | |
lovely pictures this week. -- pitches. | :41:42. | :42:21. | |
Quite a scene. I've never seen a grandstand like | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
that. Two parts would be very neat. | :42:27. | :42:51. | |
Beautifully done. -- putt-macks. The tension easing a little bit. Still a | :42:52. | :43:02. | |
couple of holes to go but one feels that the breathing is getting | :43:03. | :43:03. | |
easier. You tend to forget he's only that the breathing is getting | :43:04. | :43:15. | |
25. Like racing drivers in their mid-20s and late 20s. It is a skill | :43:16. | :43:17. | |
given to very few. This two tie with Sergio Garcia. | :43:18. | :43:57. | |
McIlroy is at 17. If he's going to have any chance, he needs to find | :43:58. | :43:58. | |
the bottom of the cup. He certainly believes in lining up | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
the marker. And he did it very well. He has | :44:05. | :44:27. | |
still got a sniff. Down in two for a 66. Nicely played. | :44:28. | :44:56. | |
That putt-mack 4626. -- that putt for 66. | :44:57. | :45:21. | |
I'm looking to see if Dustin Johnson has played. He hasn't and that is | :45:22. | :45:30. | |
why Sergio is waiting. An extraordinary tee shot, which | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
ricocheted off the stand. It got a bounce of about 50 yards forward | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
onto a nicely trampled here by the calories. And now he has the perfect | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
line in. Just raining to look over the top of people's head to see if | :45:44. | :45:58. | |
Perilously close to out of bounds. Very close. | :45:59. | :46:17. | |
Two left to play. A simple par five on the 18th. | :46:18. | :46:44. | |
But first, Sergio. I have seen his dad, probing around outside in his | :46:45. | :46:53. | |
customary dad, probing around outside in his | :46:54. | :46:59. | |
club. The nerves will be grappling. 218 yards into the breeze but a | :47:00. | :47:00. | |
great angle. That is a sweet little short. -- | :47:01. | :47:24. | |
shot. That is a gem. Nearly majestic. Superbly played. Come on, | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
Sergio, Daykin. Adam Scott at the final hole. | :47:30. | :47:36. | |
The rough is well trampled this week. It looks like he has found a | :47:37. | :48:21. | |
decent wine, Rickie Fowler. -- decent life. It safety involved. -- | :48:22. | :48:30. | |
a bit of safety involved. He has been aggressive all week. That is | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
why he is leading. Because of that, if he does not need to be aggressive | :48:35. | :48:36. | |
any more. He has struck a lot of sweet irons. | :48:37. | :49:16. | |
He set off with a good lead. We tend to forget how difficult it is to win | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
anything. This is the oldest and arguably greatest Championship in | :49:23. | :49:29. | |
world golf. Where shall we go for supper if we win, that is what they | :49:30. | :49:32. | |
will be talking about. I've doubt it. Also coming about. 200,000 | :49:33. | :49:39. | |
people have come along this week. They have not set any records but it | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
has been a joyous week. Even yesterday, the rain did not doubt | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
the spirits or affect the course badly. -- dulled the spirits. | :49:49. | :50:19. | |
the right, hospitality over there. Hospitality everywhere you look | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
these days. Absolutely. And it is not cheap, but it is a good day out | :50:25. | :50:29. | |
if you get here. Play starts at 6:30am on the first day, but it is | :50:30. | :50:35. | |
really a 12 hour viewing day. Something to do, something to see. | :50:36. | :50:40. | |
If he can get three here and in the last, it would put the cat among the | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
pigeons. Parting is not his strongest suit. | :50:47. | :51:18. | |
-- parting. and relaxed McIlroy is. He must be | :51:19. | :51:53. | |
churning inside but he does not show it. | :51:54. | :52:30. | |
Loads of people scurrying to the 18th, they want to say that they | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
were there when Rory marched up the last. He's going to drop a shot | :52:36. | :52:46. | |
here. To wander for the day. -- 2-under. 11-under for the | :52:47. | :52:50. | |
Championship. He really has to find the dance | :52:51. | :53:02. | |
floor here. There is some dangerous Russell. -- rocks. | :53:03. | :53:12. | |
241 altogether. 272 the front edge. A big hit. 3-iron? 4-iron? Probably | :53:13. | :53:26. | |
the 3-iron. It looks like a long club, probably the scene he hit off | :53:27. | :53:27. | |
the tee. A little anxious. Wide of the green. | :53:28. | :53:43. | |
Not good but not too bad. He has a clear shot. A little edgy. That is a | :53:44. | :53:55. | |
horrible spot over there, but he is a cave. He will be believed when he | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
sees the ball on the fairway. -- he will be believed. Opportunity | :54:00. | :54:02. | |
knocks. Low and hard, a chaser. But it did | :54:03. | :54:29. | |
not chase. Unlucky. Rather unfortunate that did not zip along. | :54:30. | :54:42. | |
Is it coming back? No. Not a bad life. I can still see it. -- 10p | :54:43. | :55:07. | |
mag. A slightly anxious look as he comes | :55:08. | :55:21. | |
down. There is no reaction from the gallery. | :55:22. | :55:37. | |
Dear, dear. Dustin, Dustin. 25 yards out of bounds. | :55:38. | :55:50. | |
Reload, continue firing in your own time. But white posts -- the white | :55:51. | :56:04. | |
posts are the out of bounds. It goes all the way down the side of the | :56:05. | :56:06. | |
18th. He cannot believe his luck. What a beautiful advert. Effort. 68. | :56:07. | :56:30. | |
11-under. It is a long Championship. A super | :56:31. | :56:51. | |
round of 68. A wonderful chip. The best he can do | :56:52. | :57:07. | |
is four. Looking at the angle, he's probably | :57:08. | :57:29. | |
far enough up to not have to hit the ridge of the green. He will be able | :57:30. | :57:33. | |
to land on the top level. A nice life. -- lie. | :57:34. | :57:51. | |
What a lovely touch. What a glorious touch. When he played it, for a | :57:52. | :58:01. | |
moment, I thought it was going to land too softly, but it trundled on. | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
Superb. What an absolutely superb shot. Just | :58:06. | :58:19. | |
what he required. And it went higher than I thought. I | :58:20. | :58:38. | |
thought that niche stop short. -- that may stop short. Landed and | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
trundled along beautifully. It is not quite checkmate, but he is | :58:44. | :58:52. | |
making it difficult. Fowler has not dropped a shot. Rory | :58:53. | :59:42. | |
has had three bogeys. Four birdies. Nice round. Finishes at 10-under. | :59:43. | :59:52. | |
Very well played, young sir. Remember the 14th at Royal St | :59:53. | :00:29. | |
George, he has had a couple here. That is a great life for Sergio | :00:30. | :00:58. | |
Garcia. Going in with a long iron. Trying to feed it up and draw it out | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
a touch. He really clattered it, chasing it down towards the green. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
It is on. What advice would you give Rory if | :01:09. | :01:38. | |
you're his caddy? I would put a club in his hand that does not hit it any | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
more than 260 yards. Who knows? Did I detect some steel? I'm not | :01:41. | :02:30. | |
expecting a driver. Change of direction for young Rory. | :02:31. | :02:45. | |
Just been a joy to watch. Yes, that will do. | :02:46. | :02:56. | |
Another one of those, and thank you very much, indeed. Unless Rickie | :02:57. | :03:07. | |
Fowler gets his second shot, which is very unlikely. | :03:08. | :03:21. | |
He needs to finish it off but if he does, all credit to him and his | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
team, the effort. For one so young he's had some wonderful moments. He | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
has had some very sad moments as well, but can he do this? He is not | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
doing too badly for a young man in his mid-20s. | :03:45. | :04:07. | |
-- goose bumps. He has not filled the shoes of Seve but he is a good | :04:08. | :04:36. | |
disciple. What a reception, what a noise. A | :04:37. | :05:15. | |
feast of good scoring today, from the moment they went out this | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
morning. Sadly for Dustin Johnson his first | :05:18. | :05:32. | |
tee shot went out of bounds, he is struggling not to take seven. | :05:33. | :05:47. | |
He may be considering playing his second. Touch and go. My mouth is a | :05:48. | :06:18. | |
bit dry. This is for the eagle. Nice touches. He finishes 15-under. | :06:19. | :07:41. | |
Great round of 66. Just that bunker shot, perhaps, perhaps. Terrific | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
links golf from Sergio Garcia. Superb finish of 66. Not much aloft | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
on this one. If that is not trapped in the corner | :07:53. | :08:29. | |
it will be OK. It should be OK. But it was very attacking. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
How about these performances in Majors from Rickie Fowler? He has a | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
chance for outright second with a good shot. | :08:42. | :09:16. | |
It is going to be a reception and a half year. I think when he has | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
travelled half year. I think when he has | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
noise will begin. He still got to finish the job. He looks very | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
settled. Mightily impressed. What about that? What about that bet | :09:42. | :11:11. | |
that he would be open champion before he was 25? His parents must | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
be very proud. I think it is lying OK in the bunker. He has played some | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
cracking shots from long range this week but this is not bad. I think he | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
can get that at least halfway to the whole. | :11:36. | :12:03. | |
It just goes to show his confidence to try and play that type of shot. | :12:04. | :12:24. | |
The simple shot would have probably come off. It is a wonderful shot. | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
Having the confidence to hit it sharply. It looks as if it was going | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
off the green. It half stopped and then it revolved and went on. Fort | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
he was going to hit the pin. -- believed he was going to. | :12:46. | :12:58. | |
It goes in, he is second on his own. He will tie with Sergio Garcia. | :12:59. | :13:39. | |
15-under. You can still have the -- numerous | :13:40. | :14:30. | |
shots and still be the champion. I'm sure he wants to finish in style. | :14:31. | :14:50. | |
So near. It will be par-5 to finish. Savour the moment. It in. The | :14:51. | :15:02. | |
champion. All the right touches. If you're a | :15:03. | :16:18. | |
youngster thinking about taking up golf, give it a chance, it is great. | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
He certainly worked hard as a child, his father loved it, took him to the | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
driving range, worked hard, gave him a helping hand along the way. His | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
friends in Northern Ireland as well. And he has done it, three great | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
Championships under his belt. The one he was most likely to win I | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
thought was the Masters, that is the final leg of the grand slam. | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
Congratulations, Rory. He plays with flair and fluency. I wonder what | :16:55. | :17:06. | |
he's thinking? Down the steps, check on the cards, make sure everything | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
is all right. Face the press, the cameras, the interviews. | :17:16. | :17:28. | |
Just under ?1 million in prize money as well, but he will get the gold | :17:29. | :17:42. | |
medal and you cannot buy that. His father, sorry, Sergio Garcia's | :17:43. | :17:43. | |
father. His manager. No wonder he looks | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
happy. It has been some tournament. Waited | :17:54. | :18:26. | |
a long time to come back to Hoylake, it has been worthwhile. | :18:27. | :18:36. | |
What a week of golf, it has been. Look at those final scores. | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
Fabulous. Rory is the only one at 70. Wonderful variation of scoring. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
They pushed him all the way. So many had an opportunity to be even | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
better. That is a tremendous final leaderboard. The engraver is at it. | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
He will have put in the date and by the time the trophy is handed out, | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
the name of Rory McIlroy will be there. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
This was the final moment. Look at that. Sweet, sweet moment. I might | :19:20. | :19:38. | |
This was the final moment. Look at have been tempted to keep that and | :19:39. | :19:39. | |
put it on the trophy cabinet. He is in some elite company already. | :19:40. | :19:55. | |
Cuddle for He has played some beautiful golf. | :19:56. | :20:28. | |
Some hiccups along the way but what a wonderful champion we have. How | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
proud they should be in Northern Ireland, how proud we are in Great | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
Britain to have him with us. There is dad. He should be off to the | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
bookmaker. ?50,000, we are talking. It will buy a good dinner. I suppose | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
when we look back yesterday, those eagles at 16 and 18. Sergio Garcia | :21:00. | :21:15. | |
giving him a hug. His caddy. It all came true. | :21:16. | :21:31. | |
The officials. Something else that was amazing, I have watched him this | :21:32. | :21:47. | |
last week or so, there is always somebody there wanting something, | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
but it is right in your face, it must be so hard to handle. The price | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
of fame. There are moments when you just want to be alone, you don't | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
want to be pestered. Sometimes people don't understand that. Let's | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
hear from our winner. Rory, we have been watching you fight your way | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
through the well-wishers to the interview position. You sit down as | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
an open champion, as well as PGA and US Open. How does it feel? It feels | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
incredible. Today was not easy. Some guys were making runs at me. I | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
needed to stay focused and stay in the present and concentrate on what | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
I was doing right there. To be three legs of the fort towards a career | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
grand slam is a pretty good achievement, it will not sink in. -- | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
three legs of the four. There was some phenomenal scoring from | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
virtually every single player behind you. Did you feel as if you were in | :23:02. | :23:11. | |
control? The lead never got less than two, soil was felt I had a | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
little bit of a gap. -- so I always felt. 16 was the one for me which | :23:18. | :23:27. | |
settled the Championship, I made birdie there with three shots to | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
play with. Nearly got it from the bunker on the 18th. I did not mean | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
for it to come out as hot as it did, but it was just nice to have the | :23:46. | :23:56. | |
luxury of a few shots. Is your dad ?50,000 richer? We've been talking | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
about the bet he placed ten years ago. I think so. I don't think it | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
matters to my father so much anymore but the few friends will be happy. | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
matters to my father so much anymore but the few friends Hopefully the | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
bet still stands but if it does it would be great. It has been a | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
phenomenal week, it is a phenomenal achievement. Congratulations. So say | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
all of us. Wonderful achievement. It has been an absolute delight to see | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
so many players competing and playing well. The spectators, the | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
organisation, battling the elements at times, it has been really a | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
delight. Really a delight. Next year we go back up to the home of golf, | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
St Andrews, which is always special. There is only one score in the 70s | :24:53. | :25:12. | |
and that is the champion, but just look at the quality of the golf. | :25:13. | :25:25. | |
Graeme McDowell finished with a great big part along the last green. | :25:26. | :25:39. | |
Charl Schwartzel played well. So many playing splendidly. Jim Furyk. | :25:40. | :25:50. | |
He just keeps going on and on. Victor Dubuisson keeps going. Dustin | :25:51. | :26:02. | |
Johnson had all sorts of problems but managed to get in with 72. Angel | :26:03. | :26:16. | |
Cabrera was 67. Defending champion, Phil Mickelson, always a delight to | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
have him here. The crowd warmed to him. | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
Rickie Fowler has joined us. You cannot have any recriminations with | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
yourself, the way you've played today. You've pushed him all the | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
way. It was a battle for me today. I did not have my best but I fought | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
through it, I was able to make a late run, but I got on the gas a | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
little too late. Rory played very solid today and it was going to take | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
a lot to catch him. Did you always maintain the belief that if you find | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
some inspiration you could still win the title? I knew as long as I kept | :27:07. | :27:15. | |
within four or five, if I was able to rattle off some birdies to put | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
pressure on him, but he hit some great shots, 16 was easy for him. It | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
was a great save on 17, it kind of ended the hopes. You are good | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
friends but it did strike me as a very sociable round. Battling for | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
the biggest prize in golf and speaking up the fairways. It is more | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
enjoyable when you can have a good time out there with a buddy, I want | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
to see both of us play well and I wanted to see if I could play a bit | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
better than him and get the best of him, I may have scored lower but he | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
had the lower total for the tournament. It has been a great year | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
for you. Three finishers in the top five. You are getting closer and | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
closer. -- finishes. It is definitely getting closer, the main | :28:14. | :28:15. | |
goal was to be in contention for all the Majors and we have one left in | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
the schedule. I am excited about it. Looking forward to it. We will see | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
if we can get closer. Thank you very much again. | :28:28. | :28:35. | |
Brilliant Fowler and indeed from Rory. We were | :28:36. | :28:44. | |
first introduced in Carnoustie. That was in 2007. He is now three | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
quarters of the way to a career grand slam. It was written of | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
highlight, blown by mighty winds, breeder of mighty champions. -- | :28:57. | :29:05. | |
written off Hoylake. Here, the breeze lay still, the course lay | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
down, as it seemed all others did before the new champion in waiting. | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
This meant to be his recession and parade, one to delight the heaving | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
mass. A chance for them to say, I was there, I saw him play. To | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
another, it would be simple evolution, sporting survival of the | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
fittest, here was where another ruled, where he had roared. | :29:31. | :29:39. | |
fittest, here was where another does not stop the rise and fall, the | :29:40. | :29:42. | |
world turns, does not stop the rise and fall, the | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
must pass. Of course, there are does not stop the rise and fall, the | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
those who sure you can hold back the dying of the light, not with rage | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
but with a wrinkled smile and others who know that even on this ancient | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
canvas, golf can be painted colours are bright and bold, all true greats | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
need all things, balance, power, are bright and bold, all true greats | :30:05. | :30:14. | |
they need steel within to settled the beating heart, and this one | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
wears greatness likely, stardom in the simple guise of a boy next door. | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
His journey to the the simple guise of a boy next door. | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
complete, the prize he thought he could not win. Three Majors in | :30:26. | :30:27. | |
different shades, have travelled that long and winding | :30:28. | :30:36. | |
road. No mighty wind this year, he is the star. A force of nature to | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
sweep the rest is the star. A force of nature to | :30:41. | :31:16. | |
wind did blow again. In enter the arena lead by Peter Dawson. -- the | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
presidential party. Ladies and gentlemen, chairman of the RNA | :31:23. | :31:25. | |
Championship committee. Welcome to the... The links here at | :31:26. | :31:41. | |
Hoylake have, as ever, proved Welcome to the... The links here at | :31:42. | :31:54. | |
Hoylake have, as ever, to be a marvellous test of golf at the | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
highest level. And then must thank the club, its members and staff for | :31:59. | :32:06. | |
all their help and assistance in making this an open to remember. Me | :32:07. | :32:24. | |
and also thank the residents of Hoylake for their patients in the | :32:25. | :32:33. | |
weeks before and during the Championship. -- may I also thank. | :32:34. | :32:42. | |
The players throughout the week have applauded the condition of the golf | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
course. Our enormous thanks go to Craig, links manager, and all of his | :32:50. | :32:56. | |
team for his superb presentation. Craig, congratulations. | :32:57. | :33:09. | |
No Open Championship can be organised without the considerable | :33:10. | :33:17. | |
efforts of thousands of volunteers who have come from all around the | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
world to assist in the running of The Open. Thank you for your | :33:25. | :33:40. | |
invaluable help. Our appreciation must go to the many international | :33:41. | :33:45. | |
organisations who have supported our open qualifying series for this | :33:46. | :33:51. | |
Championship. I have received understanding support this week from | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
the RNA Championship committee and staff, whose expertise and | :33:58. | :34:06. | |
experience enhances every Open. The world's best golfers have competed | :34:07. | :34:09. | |
at Hoylake this week and we have witnessed the supreme skills in | :34:10. | :34:16. | |
variable play conditions. Finally, our thanks go to you, our | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
spectators, who have attended in huge numbers and produced such a | :34:22. | :34:28. | |
tremendous atmosphere, so much appreciated by the players. I've | :34:29. | :34:29. | |
thank you all. I will now asked Peter Dawson to | :34:30. | :34:49. | |
announce the prizewinners and Alistair Pegg is, captain of the | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
Royal Liverpool golf club, to present the trophy. Ladies and | :34:56. | :35:08. | |
gentlemen, the runners-up, winners of the Silver Sauber, are Rickie | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
Fowler and Sergio Garcia. And with a score of 271, the winner | :35:13. | :36:23. | |
of the gold medal and the champion golfer of the year is Rory McIlroy. | :36:24. | :37:20. | |
Thank you. I've got something in my pocket here and should take out and | :37:21. | :37:26. | |
read. And would like to thank everyone. To the RNA, for putting on | :37:27. | :37:36. | |
such a great Championship, the Open is the one that we all want, but one | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
that we all strive for, and to be able to hold the Claret Jug is an | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
incredible feeling. Thank you for everything you do for golf and for | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
the development of golf. The RNA is a great organisation and I'm glad to | :37:53. | :37:54. | |
be the champion this year. To the members of the Royal | :37:55. | :38:11. | |
Liverpool golf club for letting us use the course this week and the way | :38:12. | :38:17. | |
it has been presented, it is a very good test of golf and I am delighted | :38:18. | :38:24. | |
by the way it was set up. It seems to work in my favour, so thank you | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
very much. You have been very hospitable and I'll look forward to | :38:30. | :38:44. | |
coming back soon. Thank you. And to the fans, you have turned out in | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
thousands and thousands this week and on behalf of all the players and | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
would like to say thank you very much. The support has been | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
absolutely fantastic week. It has been a | :39:00. | :39:01. | |
absolutely fantastic week. It has you. Even though I am in Man United | :39:02. | :39:09. | |
fan, I've still got great support. Thank you very much. Also these two | :39:10. | :39:28. | |
guys at the end Thank you very much. Also these two | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
and Sergio, well done for putting up such a great fight. It was a | :39:34. | :39:39. | |
pleasure to play with you today and with your Major record this year, no | :39:40. | :39:42. | |
doubt your time will come. And Sergio, two of the best players in | :39:43. | :39:57. | |
the world. Fantastic competitors. And last but not least, I have got a | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
big team over there, my friends and family. This is the first Major that | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
my mother has been at where I have one. This one is for you. -- I have | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
won. And I cannot wait to get back and | :40:14. | :40:26. | |
defend this thing next year at St Andrews. Ladies and gentlemen, that | :40:27. | :40:43. | |
ends the presentation ceremony. Travel home safely and we look | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
forward to seeing you next year at St Andrews | :40:48. | :41:09. | |
forward to seeing you next year at open champion, Rory McIlroy. Sheila | :41:10. | :41:12. | |
Mackie has his hand on the Claret Jug at last. It was not a runaway | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
victory that many predicted but I'm not sure who the drinks are | :41:20. | :41:22. | |
victory that many predicted but I'm night, Rory or his dad, but he is | :41:23. | :41:25. | |
the first European golfer to complete three quarters of the | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
career Grand Slam. What a day. And to close out the madness, the | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
chaos around. Expectation bearing down on him. Just another round. He | :41:36. | :41:42. | |
has got the driver out. That was a fear way splitter. Absolutely cut it | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
in half. What a way to start. Daddy will be pleased. He has got to be | :41:48. | :41:55. | |
incredibly pumped up now. Very tasty. He has had eagles, birdies, | :41:56. | :42:08. | |
par-5s, but that is the first bogey. Beautifully played by McIlroy! Yes, | :42:09. | :42:14. | |
he needed that. Two birdies in a row. The atmosphere is electric. | :42:15. | :42:22. | |
Crackling away. The lead is two shots. It is easy to forget that he | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
is only 25. Beautifully done. What a glorious touch. Superb. The | :42:31. | :42:40. | |
champion. And what a significant achievement | :42:41. | :42:43. | |
this is, not just for Rory McIlroy but for European golfer. When you | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
look at this, here he is with three Majors, joining Bob Drake Harrington | :42:48. | :42:53. | |
and only certain Henry and Sir Nick have more. It is only Northern | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
Ireland's fifth Major. Two where does this elevate him in the list of | :43:00. | :43:01. | |
great champions? Form players, does this elevate him in the list of | :43:02. | :43:03. | |
great champions? Form he goes to the top, part four Nick Faldo. He is | :43:04. | :43:08. | |
right there because he is a young lad. He is heading in the direction | :43:09. | :43:11. | |
to become a superstar of golf. I lad. He is heading in the direction | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
think that is someone who has won five Majors or more. Only Jack | :43:17. | :43:26. | |
Nicholas and Tiger Woods have completed three legs of the Grand | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
Slam before the age of 25. He is in that league. He is a fantastic | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
talent. You have seen today, when he has got into trouble he has got out | :43:38. | :43:46. | |
of it and he has driven well. Even on his a game, he is a tough man to | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
beat. And today was a tough game for him. He stood up well. It seemed | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
like it could slip away at a couple of moments but he was confident. | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
This will increase his height before a duster. A possible career Grand | :44:00. | :44:05. | |
Slam. I thought the Augusta National would be the one that he would have | :44:06. | :44:13. | |
won. He can hit the ball high and landed softly. Of the four Majors, | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
Augusta would have been the first on the list. You must think he could do | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
this. The big events keep coming on the BBC because we are hotfooting it | :44:23. | :44:25. | |
to Glasgow for the Commonwealth games. Huw Edwards will be leading | :44:26. | :44:26. | |
the commentary team. I cannot wait. 71 nations' athletes will be | :44:27. | :45:13. | |
parading on Wednesday. But today, it is all about this man, Rory McIlroy, | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
who has joined some of the greats of the game. This is a wonderful | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
victory, his third Major. And he is following the likes of Fred Daly, | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
who took the Open at Hoylake in 1947, and Darren Clarke a couple of | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
years back in 2011. It has been a wonderful week and it has been a | :45:32. | :45:36. | |
wonderful last day. And we have seen something truly special I think, | :45:37. | :45:41. | |
from Rory McIlroy. The story, what a story. It has been all about Rory. | :45:42. | :45:45. | |
He is one of the greats of the game now. And it happened all here at | :45:46. | :45:48. | |
Hoylake. Bye-bye. He is a genius. This week, he has | :45:49. | :47:15. | |
showed us how good he is. The champion. | :47:16. | :47:18. |