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Championship here at the Royal Liverpool and the rain is falling | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
once again, as it has been to 9am this morning when play started. The | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
umbrellas have been up and down, and right now they are up. We will | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
update you with the fact that the warnings of light in have gone away | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
for the time being. We are now on an amber alert. | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
Carl shorts all moves to 8-under and only three shots back from our | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
overnight leader Rory McIlroy. And Victor Dubuisson, the talented | :01:03. | :01:19. | |
Frenchman, 66 yesterday, birdie at the 7th, this would take on 7-under | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
par. They really are on Rory McIlroy's tale. Thus far, he is the | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
only man who is over-par after an opening bogey. His lead was cut | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
after the 1st hole when Dustin Johnson made a birdie there. It is | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
shaping up nicely, with some good scoring. Charl Schwartzel is two | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
and, Victor Dubuisson is 3-under. And Jimmy Walker made his first | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
bogey after a great run. We mentioned the former champion Charl | :01:58. | :01:58. | |
Schwartzel. Let's go out to him. 8-under par, Schwartzel with this | :01:59. | :02:22. | |
from the front of the green. He has done it. A Olesen yardage this | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
morning. He moves to 9-under par, tied with Justin Thompson. It is not | :02:29. | :02:38. | |
hard rain, just a light drizzle at the moment. The radar map looks like | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
we might get a couple of hours of it, but not too much threat of | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
lightning. Not quite firing this morning, | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
George. He bogeyed the first part. Of the players that started, George | :02:55. | :03:20. | |
was the best with his rounds of 70 and 69. He certainly had the tough | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
side of the draw. Sergio Garcia on the fifth. A clumsy | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
chip from front right, but a much better put-mac. Beautiful. | :03:36. | :03:47. | |
The field are creeping inexorably up to Rory McIlroy's heels. Not time to | :03:48. | :04:07. | |
panic yet, but it is getting close. Rory McIlroy is 1-over par for his | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
opening for my calls. Fowler is one of those players that | :04:10. | :04:34. | |
can go a long way under. He looked like he was going to miss. He looked | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
so comfortable, Martin Kaymer always looks like that. I wonder what the | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
fuss is about, putting, watching him. Luke Donald is another, he just | :04:44. | :04:55. | |
stepped over it. It is surely not difficult. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Jim Furyk with his very unique action. | :05:01. | :05:15. | |
Pretty good break skipping over that front bunker. Awkward to get at. Not | :05:16. | :05:25. | |
quite tough as yesterday. I do not think he caught that one quite | :05:26. | :05:26. | |
right. A bit thin. Byeong-Hun An, he lives in Orlando | :05:27. | :05:43. | |
and is from South Korea, beautifully done. That is his fifth birdie of | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
the day, one bogey. Dustin Johnson has come off it a | :05:46. | :05:57. | |
bit. It just doesn't trickle in. A big | :05:58. | :06:18. | |
break for him. On these opening five holes, Rory McIlroy could not have | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
placed his key shots in better positions. He is rewarded with a | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
good angle in and a forearm. 230 to go. More aggressive play than Fowler | :06:32. | :06:41. | |
and Garcia. He is going to be rewarded with a birdie four. | :06:42. | :07:02. | |
That is a big sample, career! It is for some players! A big difference | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
there. He is in the mood for birdies | :07:11. | :07:40. | |
today. He likes to be aggressive. He is that kind of player. Once he | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
starts holding putts, he keeps holding them. That was nice. That | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
was nice, just pinged through the valley there. The front was | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
difficult to get at. I valley there. The front was | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
he meant it that way, but it was a good result. Just a skip up from | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
short. Sergio Garcia may try to emulate that. That he is capable of | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
giving it the big high soft land. emulate that. That he is capable of | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
Yes, he hit a huge high one to number three, to stop it very | :08:18. | :08:18. | |
quickly to a tight pin. The best of number three, to stop it very | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
them all at that seems to be Rory McIlroy. He reaches huge heights and | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
then lands incredibly softly. But all of these players are shaping the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
ball very cleverly, if required. It looks like Sergio Garcia is lining | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
up for the high cut. That was a bit unlucky. Just a | :08:39. | :09:00. | |
little hollow, a little valley before that green, and he pitched it | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
on the top of the first crest and it didn't skid forward. Graeme McDowell | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
on number 11, this for a birdie. He rammed into the back of the | :09:11. | :09:23. | |
whole! Third birdie of the day, two bogeys. | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
Looking like a masterstroke of planning, the way the weather is. | :09:33. | :10:03. | |
Rory McIlroy is still two ahead, but a slightly suspect start to his | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
third round, the last few holes, anyway. Charl Schwartzel and Rickie | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Fowler are making a move. Adam Scott is a bit lacklustre, and | :10:11. | :10:25. | |
Francesco Molinari, an uncharacteristic round for him. This | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
is going to be difficult to get up close. | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
Just clambers and stays on the little top tier. | :10:46. | :11:00. | |
A big tee shot here for Victor Dubuisson at number eight. Can he | :11:01. | :11:11. | |
get at it? Superbly well played. A little unlucky that it checked a bit | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
further to the left there. Alphabetical scores along the bottom | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
of your screen. This is Francesco Molinari, 3-over | :11:25. | :11:42. | |
for the round. For him, that must feel about 20 other. And he has | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
played three on this hole. Not the easiest of two putts coming | :11:47. | :12:14. | |
up here. It is about ten feet in front of him, with a little crest. | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
A lovely rhythm to his stroke, Rory. Yes, a very sound putter. He | :12:24. | :12:37. | |
wants to roll this to the hole side, not give himself any headaches. | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Quite right. He would take two putts and get off the screen immediately, | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
I feel. -- get off this green immediately. | :12:50. | :13:04. | |
He just feels a bit of momentum is available, but is he going to take | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
it? It can be elusive at times. Sergio Garcia, we saw a 6-iron tee | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
shot come up short. He's a wonderful tipper normally. That is no mistake | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
at all. Darren Clarke. His 12th. We saw | :13:22. | :13:59. | |
Dustin Johnson's chip pull up short. This would get him within one of | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
Rory. But it cannot come from the far right. | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
But it is a certainty he will not go away, Dustin Johnson. He looks | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
comfortable here, playing well for a number of weeks now. He is just | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
wondering about a trip to the optometrist! Is a real athlete. He | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
can to a basketball, amongst other athletic things. I can dunk a | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
biscuit. Jimmy Walker. A fantastic season on | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
the PGA Tour. 6-under for Jimmy Walker. There is a | :14:47. | :15:23. | |
subdued atmosphere on the course at the moment, a kind of hush. Varies. | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
Maybe they are waiting for a thunderstorm to happen. And as Peter | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
says, they cannot applaud while you are holding an umbrella! They are | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
just heckling us. 10-under par for Rickie Fowler. What | :15:37. | :16:15. | |
a start for him. Six holes, format birdies. He is a couple behind. | :16:16. | :16:36. | |
Dustin Johnson is just tapping in. The storms may have evaporated, but | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
a lot of players are making a lightning move up the leaderboard. | :16:43. | :16:59. | |
He is playing a good round of golf, four heard it after bogeying the | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
second, Victor Dubuisson. 24 years old, a Frenchman. His first | :17:06. | :17:21. | |
victory was at the Turkish open last season, where he held off Tiger | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
Woods and played some superb golf. He has played pretty well since. It | :17:24. | :17:37. | |
is not look like he is a quick flash in the pan. It looks like he will be | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
around for a good while. He has got a lot of game, no doubt about that. | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
This looks... Got to be careful here, going down the shaft. | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
Just nudging it back into play, second on the seventh. Charl | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Schwartzel. a 6-iron. Difficult to get close to | :18:05. | :18:37. | |
this flag, things tend to get swept down to the middle of the green. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
That would be a good place, and uphill putt for a birdie. Is he | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
going to go hide? He's going high. It could be worse. The forecast was | :18:50. | :19:17. | |
not very clever. We have been very lucky, Ken. The clouds look very | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
ominous and there is a sort of hair hanging about the place. People are | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
waiting for something, possibly dreadful, to happen. It is almost | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
like waiting for the end of the world. Everybody is trying to remain | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
calm. The golf is very good at the moment. The first two rounds, the | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
qualifying scores were a couple lower than I thought it might be at | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
one stage, and although there are a couple of booties are scattered | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
about today, there are lots of birdies. This is how it has been | :19:52. | :20:03. | |
playing. Birdies are red, pars are blue. | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
I am wondering if the atmosphere will affect the curving slightly. | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
Rory McIlroy was about three yards short. He rolled back. You can carry | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
this right into the heart of the green. That is hardly the heart of | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
the green, but certainly up to the flag. | :20:30. | :20:43. | |
To the ninth, Victor Dubuisson, 7-under. | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
No... Left an awkward shot from the. Charl Schwartzel, the Masters | :20:54. | :21:12. | |
champion, at the 7th. Our good friend Johann Rupert was just | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
telling me all three players, all three teddies in this group, speak a | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
language other than English come all Afrikaans. If you come from Holland | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
and understand Flemish, you can get a bit of what they are saying. | :21:31. | :21:47. | |
Ken was saying that this foul weather hasn't really appeared. It | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
is not a bad day for golf. There is hardly a breath of wind and the rain | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
is coming straight down. The ground has softened a little bit, but you | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
can play with confidence. The long grass is wet and Standley, which | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
does not make it any easier. The scoring by some of the players has | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
been terrific, by most of the players, in fact, although there has | :22:11. | :22:20. | |
been the occasional miscue. Jim Furyk. He is trying to get it to | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
turn to the left. A nice little bounce would have helped, as well. | :22:30. | :22:42. | |
They have been a good combination for years. | :22:43. | :23:05. | |
It doesn't matter what they say about power, if you are going to hit | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
its 60, 70 yards straight every time and don't put too badly, you will do | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
very well in life. That is, if you are going to take up golf! No good | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
if you are going to be a plasterer, but there we are. What is it like | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
out there, Maureen? There is quite a buzz around this Rory McIlroy, | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
Dustin Johnson match. Francesco Molinari is having a nightmare today | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
and he must be that he is a spectator for these other two at the | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
moment. It is awful. I think every player has felt like that at some | :23:43. | :23:55. | |
stage. He stabs it out. I have had heard it is the centenary of | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
Whitchurch in Cardiff. After this, there will not be many centenary is | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
for a few years because of the First World War. David Howell, he goes. | :24:09. | :24:23. | |
Birdie putt. Got it. Well done, David. Coming out of the dog runs. | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
-- doldrums. Chip shot for Rory. He's going with | :24:28. | :24:39. | |
a sound I am. Just starting to tighten his game up after the | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
start, looking more like you did in the first two rounds. Yes, that chip | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
is beautiful, but that was a big target and he missed it. Sometimes I | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
think they try to be too precise. That may sound old-fashioned, but if | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
he had been a few yards past the flag there, it would not have been a | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
bad shot. Now he has got to play a good chip, a three or for footer. | :25:08. | :25:28. | |
Ryan Gauld sit in the... He's going to take a penalty drop. | :25:29. | :25:41. | |
Can he rolled? Excellent speed. Nice little tussle. Walks like a | :25:42. | :25:58. | |
gunslinger. Victor Dubuisson is just off the edge. Nice and flat there. | :25:59. | :26:12. | |
He judged it very well. Phil Mickelson is having one of his usual | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
rounds, 37 strokes for his first nine and then he has just come back | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
with three birdies to come back with 1-under par for the Championship. | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
Molyneaux Ari has come out of the bunker on the sixth. This is for a | :26:34. | :26:51. | |
3-part... Are! Three par-5s on the homeward side. Maybe a hint of | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
movement in the right at the end of this part. Yes, but he has left | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
himself the easiest but possible by leaving the chip shot short of the | :27:04. | :27:04. | |
hole. Rory McIlroy still leads the | :27:05. | :27:20. | |
Championship and we are waiting for him to burst into life. Everything | :27:21. | :27:29. | |
is going along nice and steadily. This is Dustin Johnson. | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
Half a dozen players now in hot pursuit. | :27:37. | :27:47. | |
We should see Ken. What is he going to do on the course? Here it is. The | :27:48. | :27:57. | |
seventh is a demon par-4. There are bunkers left and right off the tee. | :27:58. | :28:05. | |
A hard fairway to find. If you drive down this left side and find the | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
fairway, you must avoid the pot bunker. If you go in there, you will | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
not reach the green in two. But even if you do find the fair way, down | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
the left ear from where the player is you cannot see the flag at all, | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
just the very top of it. If you get a bit higher, you will see from this | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
angle be bunker is down the left-hand side of the putting | :28:29. | :28:30. | |
surface and it is difficult to get to the green easily unless the pin | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
is on the right. However, if you can drive down this right side and hit a | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
boomer, you can still slightly incited to the green. But from here, | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
the angle to the flag is greatly enhanced. If the camera goes up | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
comedy will see from this of the fairway, you get a much better | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
angle. The bunkers are not so much in play and you are playing into the | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
slope on the green. This is the best angle to get, a perfect tee shot, | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
the best angle for the flag, but I jingo it is tricky. | :29:05. | :29:43. | |
top and I do not know if it got the deflection. -- Ryan Johnson hit the | :29:44. | :29:53. | |
bushes. Right now you just take par at seven | :29:54. | :30:08. | |
and eight today, two of the hardest holes on the golf course. Try to | :30:09. | :30:15. | |
skip them and go to the ninth tee. You can see how difficult this crass | :30:16. | :30:17. | |
errors. He barely gets the You can see how difficult this crass | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
through once it hits it. He did not attempt to hit it very fast so it | :30:24. | :30:31. | |
must have been a dreadful life. -- lie. | :30:32. | :30:42. | |
What a bonus. What a bonus for DC. Crackerjack. | :30:43. | :31:03. | |
With all the problems at the 7th hole, it will cause the final group | :31:04. | :31:12. | |
to wait. He was lucky that the ball actually kicked out after hitting | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
the top of the bush. It is still a long way out. It does not look like | :31:17. | :31:29. | |
it will fly and the pin is all the way in the back left. | :31:30. | :32:06. | |
That was not a great strike. He has done well to get it on the green. | :32:07. | :32:21. | |
Darren Clarke, we saw him with that monster putt, he has had six birdies | :32:22. | :32:30. | |
so far and one dropped shot. He is going along nicely at 4-under par. | :32:31. | :32:40. | |
Rory McIlroy weights. A bogey at the opening hole. The bad weather has | :32:41. | :32:53. | |
not yet reached us along West Sussex and the course. The Midlands and | :32:54. | :33:10. | |
Manchester. -- the coast. There is a strange stillness about the day, the | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
feeling that you get before a big thunderstorm but it is managing to | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
stay away. There is no wind to move the weather along quickly. | :33:21. | :33:39. | |
That's nearly killed somebody. You do not know how lucky you are, | :33:40. | :33:42. | |
sorry. -- sir. The left side is safer. It is a | :33:43. | :34:08. | |
harbour second shot. -- it is a harbour second shot. | :34:09. | :34:28. | |
430 yards and he is through the back. Back not too bad. | :34:29. | :35:27. | |
He will have that for a double bogey. | :35:28. | :35:58. | |
If you find a brochure then you play the place. -- then you pay the | :35:59. | :36:04. | |
price. He generates a lot of power, he | :36:05. | :36:28. | |
bumps it. He did not chase it far enough. He wanted more elevation on | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
that and he could have chased it and they green. -- chased it down to the | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
green. He seemed to know that was going to | :36:41. | :37:00. | |
miss the moment it came other club. He is going along very nicely. | :37:01. | :37:10. | |
Robbie Fowler as I occasionally, much the concern of some. -- as I | :37:11. | :37:18. | |
occasionally call him. That is the shot you need if you're | :37:19. | :37:35. | |
going to play links golf. There is never enough to get -- there is | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
never enough green to work with. Ryan Moore eventually gets in the | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
hole but it started with a push tee shot into the bushes. Penalty drop | :37:45. | :37:45. | |
out. Two shots blown away. You have now got me confused with | :37:46. | :38:09. | |
Ricky and Robbie. This does not look very healthy. He has managed to miss | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
those bushes, the ones that Ryan Moore were involved in. | :38:16. | :38:24. | |
It does not look like it is a good live for Rory McIlroy. It is not | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
great, at all. -- good lie. It is a drop out and start again, I | :38:30. | :38:42. | |
feel. He did the right thing. The tendency | :38:43. | :39:28. | |
is you try to get another 40 or 50 yards out of it and you find | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
yourself meeting -- missing the fairway on the other side. Dustin | :39:33. | :39:40. | |
Johnson, you can see his balding, all he could do was blasted out of | :39:41. | :39:41. | |
the bunker the left. I bet he is good at bowling. Fine | :39:42. | :39:53. | |
judgement. It looks like it it's going to be | :39:54. | :40:20. | |
Rory McIlroy here because he is five yards farther back. There is an | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
annoying aeroplane overhead. Visibility must be about 750 feet | :40:26. | :40:27. | |
and I do not know what he Four could be a delight and it is a | :40:28. | :41:00. | |
possibility. Thank you for your e-mails. | :41:01. | :41:40. | |
You can see how raised the green is. Anything on the putting surface is | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
OK. He had a very shaky start. He is | :41:45. | :42:10. | |
clawing his way back. How do the cameramen managed to track the | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
balls? They have got a site to fall the ball. There are some seals far | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
away on the bank. There are plenty of them and. You do not need to go | :42:21. | :42:33. | |
to the North Pole or South Pole, we have got them here and there are | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
plenty of them. It is an amazing stretch of water that goes in and | :42:39. | :42:47. | |
out here. It goes from six feet to 40 feet and it is an amazing stretch | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
of water, tidal flow in and out. When the tape goes out it goes out | :42:55. | :43:01. | |
for Michaels. -- when the tide goes out it goes out from manuals. | :43:02. | :43:21. | |
Seven and eight are very difficult today. He brings a club back nicely | :43:22. | :43:43. | |
and cleaners has left hip. -- clears. | :43:44. | :44:04. | |
It is the story of the day, everything has been ingrained. -- a | :44:05. | :44:21. | |
grind. I sought Nick Faldo on your programme, what happened to his | :44:22. | :44:29. | |
caddy. They were an amazing partnership. She went back to Sweden | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
and was teaching some golf. I do not know what she was up to? She was | :44:34. | :44:40. | |
with Henrik Stenson for a while and then she was studying psychology. | :44:41. | :44:49. | |
Good luck whatever you are. -- wherever you are. | :44:50. | :45:01. | |
That might help Rory. That is a safe path. Rory has a putt for his par. | :45:02. | :45:47. | |
Wonderful shot and the hands that club over to his caddy with some | :45:48. | :45:54. | |
properties, Neil Wallace. That is his shot of the day of us. | :45:55. | :46:17. | |
It rolled down at a fair old pace. That is a killer blow, not body | :46:18. | :46:28. | |
blow, killer blow. Look at the pace. It is beautiful. Great in the middle | :46:29. | :46:34. | |
and it is a good three or four feet past, confident apart. Very | :46:35. | :46:57. | |
important, lovely shot. Another shot gone. | :46:58. | :47:04. | |
HAZEL IRVINE:. As you said, it is an important par saved. Rory has his | :47:05. | :47:16. | |
three shot cushion. The leaders would order Mallory have been going | :47:17. | :47:20. | |
out and about an hour and a past time that it was not for the two key | :47:21. | :47:30. | |
start that he had today. The introducer has got a half-day and he | :47:31. | :47:33. | |
will not know what to do with himself. We are here with the | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
gentleman with one of the most recognisable voices in golf, Ivor | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
Robinson, look at the time, your job is done. Not let know that. -- do | :47:44. | :47:57. | |
not let anybody know that. It is unique, the first time in The Open | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
Championship we have got two key starting. We do have that on the | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
European Tour so the players do understand it but it is a new one | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
for me. What will you do if your afternoon? I do not know what to | :48:11. | :48:18. | |
do. Do you watch the golf? Normally hear from the first tee shot of the | :48:19. | :48:26. | |
day to the last one. It has been 625 until 4pm. You collapse after that. | :48:27. | :48:29. | |
I do not know what to do. until 4pm. You collapse after that. | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
fun. A pleasure to top -- to talk to you. One of golf 's nice men. | :48:36. | :48:57. | |
He is trying to bring it in from the right. That is where the architect | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
wanted you to play the hole. Very distinctive swing and movement | :49:04. | :49:30. | |
through the ball for Dustin Johnson. He had moved it -- he has placed it | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
into the rough stuff. You must have good touch. He | :49:36. | :50:08. | |
still only 25. It feels like he has been out here forever. | :50:09. | :50:20. | |
He played the first Sergio Garcia. There has only been | :50:21. | :50:33. | |
two birdies at eight to you an example of how it is playing. -- | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
today to give you an example. Sergio Garcia. | :50:39. | :51:03. | |
done. I do not know if we have kept any records of somebody going round | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
without having parked on the cards. It may have been done but it sounds | :51:09. | :51:10. | |
very unlikely. -- having par. He carves that end. One viewer said | :51:11. | :51:30. | |
that he likes the look of the shoes for the players. They look very | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
comfortable. They are light and comfortable indeed. | :51:35. | :51:54. | |
Phil Mickleson, 1-under par. He has had a typical round for him. | :51:55. | :52:08. | |
He is never dull to watch. Three quarters hold that does not cut | :52:09. | :52:17. | |
back. Woods and Phil Mickleson. They have | :52:18. | :52:33. | |
pushed the game a long way over the last 20 years. | :52:34. | :53:02. | |
Middle of the green is never bad but that is even better. We saw Sergio | :53:03. | :53:10. | |
Garcia put one in just a couple of feet away and that is not too bad | :53:11. | :53:17. | |
from Rory. Can you sense the forward direction for Rory? I think so. If | :53:18. | :53:41. | |
Rory McIlroy looked nervous walking to the first tee, that is gone now. | :53:42. | :53:46. | |
He has got that confident swagger back. Everything is going along | :53:47. | :53:51. | |
smoothly. That was a good shot by Molinari. | :53:52. | :54:14. | |
After the opening day, Italy had three players in the top ten. | :54:15. | :54:46. | |
You get a view of more than one hole three | :54:47. | :55:33. | |
You get a view of more than one hole from the stands here. | :55:34. | :55:48. | |
He seems to have a great and that today. That is aggressive. -- seems | :55:49. | :55:59. | |
to have a great river am going today. | :56:00. | :56:14. | |
Down at the 15th for a birdie. 3-under and the struggle for Mac. He | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
does. 3-under and this for four. Thus to knows that if he makes a | :56:20. | :56:54. | |
miss of this then he will slip back. -- Dustan. He is lining it up as if | :56:55. | :57:16. | |
he fancies hauling it. -- holing. Wet sand is the only thing that | :57:17. | :57:19. | |
could be trickier today than yesterday. It is a different | :57:20. | :57:27. | |
approach as you hit the ball. There was an army of photographers waiting | :57:28. | :57:30. | |
to capture that if he was able to get it in the hole. | :57:31. | :57:53. | |
I like watching him play. He has got a beautiful swing. I am surprised | :57:54. | :58:02. | |
when he hits one off-line or does not do a good score. He pulled that | :58:03. | :58:07. | |
left. He got a little bit quick through the ball. It does not take | :58:08. | :58:08. | |
much to hit one off-line. That just comes off the shoulder. He | :58:09. | :58:46. | |
has got some game. It took the best Jason Day to beat him during Match | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
Play earlier this year. Miraculous up downs. | :58:52. | :59:08. | |
That was his fault shot. Look out. --third. | :59:09. | :59:35. | |
That was the easiest of pars. Dustin Johnson still has work to do for his | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
par. off to the right of Dustin Johnson, | :59:41. | :00:03. | |
there is a bigger electronic scoreboard telling us that yesterday | :00:04. | :00:11. | |
he doubled bogeyed this foul. -- this holed. I wonder if that is | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
off-putting for the players? Could be. His second shot he played after | :00:15. | :00:29. | |
Rory, and he put it in the bunker. Certainly he is 7-under for the | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Championship. Big applause for Tiger coming up the | :00:32. | :00:50. | |
18th. Jordan Spieth, Gibson from Australia playing alongside him. | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
Nice to see Tiger is having a good day, with a few birdies. He is doing | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
OK. We saw Rickie miss the ninth. He has | :01:02. | :01:15. | |
elected to chip it. The skids off the fringe, but still very good. So | :01:16. | :01:34. | |
Rickie is just three back furore. -- furore McIlroy. | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
The weather warnings have not materialised this far. The golf is | :01:45. | :01:56. | |
good and the crowds have come through. All in all, it is exciting | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
and there are a few more hours still to come. Rory McIlroy has a three | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
shot lead at the moment. You can lose five shots here in the space of | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
three holes very easily indeed. Jimmy Walker at the bottom is a | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
delight from it. He has been around for years and has never done | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
anything, but suddenly he has become a world star in golf and he plays in | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
such an easy manner. It is nice to see some delight that instead of | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
watching the big boys all the time. Sergio Garcia, brilliant tee-shots. | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
watching the big boys all the time. Awarded birdies at | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
watching the big boys all the time. nine. He joins Rickie Fowler at | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
9-under. After that start, he really played well. | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
His 61st major Championship, Sergio Garcia. Stop it! You see that cheeky | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
devil in his pocket they're looking for something. Players do not make | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
enough money these days, they have to borrow off the caddy. Rickie | :03:14. | :03:30. | |
Fowler for a par. A very nice e-mail saying sorry to hear of Bob | :03:31. | :03:46. | |
Torrance's passing. He was a jolly man with a distinctive raspy | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
Scottish voice, honed by the occasional drinker. Sadly missed. | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
Lovely memories. 280 yards into a peanut shaped | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
green, pin right at the back, 5-iron. | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
Rory, Rory, Rory! Did that hit our man in black? It hits something. It | :04:21. | :04:36. | |
hit the machine, I think. Is he all right? Where is it? That is not what | :04:37. | :04:48. | |
was ordered, Rory McIlroy. I think it may be under the machine. Here | :04:49. | :04:49. | |
comes the law. The law moves slowly. Here he goes. Various Rory's ball, | :04:50. | :05:07. | |
it goes down at the feet of our camera operator, that is where it | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
is, right underneath the Redman's shoes. | :05:12. | :05:24. | |
The body will move. Play will go on. Ken Brown is coming back in. No | :05:25. | :05:37. | |
rush! Use just easing himself gently in, adjusting the bones in the seat. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
We line up Justin Johnson -- Dustin Johnson. He has gone with a 5-iron | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
as well, three quarters truncated follow-through. Nobody ever shouts | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
forward and I found it very distressing. That was obviously | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
going into the crowd and I didn't hear anybody yell, look out. Two | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
dreadful tee shots from two of the best, 50 yards apart, 5-iron, not | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
the hardest club in the world to hit straight, but there you are. | :06:19. | :06:31. | |
Charl Schwartzel, at the rough. Kanuho no -- can he run it up the | :06:32. | :06:44. | |
garden path? That could be horrible. It's geared its way back into the | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
right corner of that trap. Deep bunker and fluffy sand down there, | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
well used. Edoardo Molinari, a chance to get to 6-under. | :06:57. | :07:07. | |
Nicely judged. Beautifully done by Molinari. | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
10th birdie on the 12th. 3-under for his round. His younger brother is | :07:15. | :07:28. | |
having his struggles. Sergio Garcia. Very low launch angle. A | :07:29. | :07:44. | |
high spin for a driver. Pretty good down that left-hand side. Those iron | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
shot he hit on eight and nine were tremendous. | :07:52. | :08:04. | |
Marking his ball just in case he gets a nudge by the machinery. He | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
has moved out of the way. CHEERING. | :08:11. | :08:20. | |
That was nearly the biggest cheer of the day. Does this remind you of a | :08:21. | :08:30. | |
certain person? A Spaniard who had a car moved? That happened many years | :08:31. | :08:45. | |
ago, 1976 at Birkdale, or live them -- Lytham. It was a wild tee shot, | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
5-iron. Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy or at least five shots | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
apart. Rickie Fowler's tee shot on the 10th. The really bad stuff is | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
down the left-hand side. Find the fairway, set yourself up for a | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
birdie, hopefully get a decent flat stands there. | :09:10. | :09:27. | |
Marie! Just far enough. Delightfully done. A good recovery. A decent | :09:28. | :09:40. | |
line. A delicate little shot. He has played some lovely pictures and | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
chips from awkward spot this week. Charl Schwartzel, in the elephant | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
trap. Not sure I like the name, the | :09:52. | :10:08. | |
elephant trap. Decent, from Schwartzel. | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
Victor Dubuisson, a nice flat line is eyeing it up. A little upslope. | :10:18. | :10:30. | |
Can't do much better than that, a delightful shot. Just a little bluff | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
at the front of the green, you need to skip it up the bank. Playing | :10:38. | :10:48. | |
alongside Dustin Johnson, Francesco Molinari has been heading backwards | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
today and ruling himself out of things. | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
It is amazing, now he is ten strokes behind. | :10:57. | :11:08. | |
Adam Scott has not been going well, two under for the Championship, won | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
over today, very surprisingly. He was disenchanted with things after | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
his efforts yesterday, and he had been tougher half of the draw and | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
knew that he was a bit too far back going into the weekend. | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
Rory is giving this a lot of attention and respect. There is a | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
feeling that this will move from right to left. There is not too much | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
to the eye, but it is almost when you walk on that green, you see it | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
in your feet. He just wants to tidy this one away and keep the momentum | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
going. Beautiful. Right in the heart of the | :11:58. | :12:15. | |
Cup. Bogey at the 1st, birdie at the 5th, all the rest are pars. Still | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
leads by three. 10th to come, which is manna from | :12:20. | :12:45. | |
heaven, those par-5s. Dustin Johnson has to be positive with this one. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
You will have memories of the last one lingering in his brain. | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
You will have memories of the last half and firm. Follows bogey follows | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
bogey for Dustin Johnson. Three in a row, adding 37, to other for the | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
day, 6-under six behind. He had got within a couple of Rory McIlroy at | :13:12. | :13:12. | |
one stage. The 10th is a straight hole, 532 | :13:13. | :13:41. | |
yards. On the green of this 10th hole, Charl Schwartzel is trying to | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
save par. Not close. He slips back. A few players are getting up close, | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
and still Garcia and Fowler are the real threats. But others have ebbed | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
away a bit. Let's see if Marc Warren can find a | :13:56. | :14:12. | |
birdie on the 11th. Shortish par four. It is going in the right | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
direction. That could be awful. It has got a | :14:17. | :14:45. | |
value to come through and the green running away from him. That is a | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
high tariff and that it is he has got a good life. | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
A rare one from Garcia. You don't see too many horrendous shots like | :14:59. | :15:22. | |
that from Sergio Garcia. He was trying to be quick on it. The key | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
thing here for Rory, you could get up there with a couple of July | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
ands. The most important thing is to find the fairway. Definitely a | :15:36. | :15:36. | |
birdie chance, 532 yards. Delicious! A couple of good bounces | :15:37. | :15:57. | |
yesterday, but that was a real shame worn -- shame worn. Wide-eyed. Not a | :15:58. | :16:15. | |
great balance. Jim Furyk. Two birdies so far today, no dropped | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
shots. Three birdies so far. Jim Furyk, 8-under. A tidy round he's | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
putting together. After that delightful approach to the 12th, | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
Victor moves to 8-under. Johnson is trying to regroup now. | :16:33. | :16:57. | |
Things just change so quickly within a couple of shots. But he certainly | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
has the power to heat up this back nine if he gets his irons dialled | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
in. That is not the side go. He seems a bit out of kilter. He | :17:08. | :17:26. | |
will have not too far to go, this par-5, with a second shot. That is | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
the two in the group ahead, Fowler and Garcia, his nearest | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
challengers. Good from Mickelson in the final | :17:38. | :17:56. | |
home, this will see him home. Not owing to be this year for the | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
defending champions. And Garcia's shot. He's looking at | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
the state of the wicket. He is looking as if he will try to | :18:11. | :18:24. | |
belted along the ground and run it through, perhaps. | :18:25. | :18:34. | |
He got lucky, but he has to be careful. There are a few brambles. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
He has got to come down incredibly steeply, said that is probably why | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
he was looking in that area, inking a first bounce might be there, and | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
then skidded onto the green. It will come out low. He has got a lot of | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
rough grass to try to get through. Got to be careful with those | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
brambles as well, because they have long tentacles. Meanwhile, Victor | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
Dubuisson. Par-3 on the 13th. All the way up the back of this long | :19:08. | :19:24. | |
green today. From the crowd says it all, because that is not nice. | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
You get a good idea how steeply he is thinking about coming down, | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
trying to get as clean a contact as possible. Because it is wet, the | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
first bounce might skid up onto the green. He has got to be careful when | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
he places the club close to the board as well, so it doesn't move. | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
Just testing the strength of those brambles, because they can really | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
snag your club. That's see what this one is going to do. He has got great | :20:01. | :20:11. | |
vision. He is never afraid to play a golf shot, and a lot of players | :20:12. | :20:12. | |
would not even see this. There is a lot of riskier. He is | :20:13. | :20:34. | |
trying to pitch it into this area, somewhere there. | :20:35. | :20:46. | |
That was the result. Could not go at the flag. Fraught with all sorts of | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
dangers. He got the distance pretty well. | :20:55. | :21:04. | |
Still the outside chance of a birdie on this par-5. Still some fairly | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
benign par-5s at Hoylake. And on the other side of the green... | :21:14. | :21:32. | |
The left side of this screen is the 10th hole. You can see the tide a | :21:33. | :21:47. | |
long way out. And that is West Kirby beyond at the end of the course, and | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
Hoylake at this end of the course. Now, Dubuisson, after his tee shot | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
on the par a lot depends on the lie. He was taking a big slash at | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
it. They can't be lying to well. This is a hit and hope. Well played. | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Really well played. Jim Furyk. Second on the dogleg 12. | :22:13. | :22:52. | |
No bogeys today. Three birdies. Ryan Moore has | :22:53. | :23:30. | |
We caught eight glimpse of Fowler, the last group. | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
We caught eight glimpse of Fowler, there is his marker on the edge of | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
the green, coming from the rough down the left. So Rickie Fowler and | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
Garcia down the left. So Rickie Fowler and | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
birdies here. Waiting back down the fairway, Rory McIlroy build the | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
taking his second shot from the prime position on the fairway. | :24:01. | :24:14. | |
I am sure that Garcia is pleased he has left himself with a birdie | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
attempt after way he was with the second shot. | :24:19. | :24:33. | |
Going to result in just a par. He has not played the par-5s | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
particularly well this week, Sergio. All three of them averaging | :24:43. | :24:43. | |
under-par today. Tiger, JP and dog head. The top | :24:44. | :25:04. | |
team. Dubuisson for his par on the 13th. | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
A shot goes for the man from the South of France. | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
He slips back alongside Charl Schwartzel, with 7-under. | :25:20. | :25:46. | |
Tiger Woods. Second to the first. He started on the 10th tee, and a | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
little sizzler. Well done. Ryan Moore, had par putt on the | :25:58. | :26:18. | |
10th. A long way adrift at the moment, Ryan Moore. Two underpar, | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
Ryan Woods is one underpar. Jim Furyk get a longer birdie | :26:26. | :26:42. | |
attempt. A poor birdie attempt. His dad Mike has been his coach all | :26:43. | :27:09. | |
his career. That unusual swing. After a lengthy wait, Rory has taken | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
a 2-iron, 245 yards, a bit of an absolute as a launch pad, but a bit | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
more breeze up there and he will have to hit this really well. | :27:21. | :27:30. | |
Has he got it through the gap? Where is this going? Please, this could be | :27:31. | :27:40. | |
really awkward. That better scuttle a bit, otherwise he is in an awful | :27:41. | :27:50. | |
spot in the backflip. If that has just dropped over the edge, it could | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
be awful. It may have trickled down far enough. He won't even know it is | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
in the bunker for certain. Rickie Fowler actually rolled in that | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
birdie putt on the 10th to get to 10-under par. Only two behind | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
Michael Roy -- Rory McIlroy at the moment. This is getting a bit more | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
interesting. Rory McIlroy has Co. Rickie Fowler | :28:17. | :28:27. | |
had a birdie at the 10th, two shots behind now. Sergio Garcia had a five | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
at the 10th, so three behind. Jim Furyk is going very well, only three | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
bogeys all week. Darren Clarke is putting together one of the best | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
rounds of the day, 5-under for his round. Jimmy Walker is playing | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
steady and consistent golf, he made his debut in this Championship last | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
year. And the likes of Stephen Gallacher is doing well. Keegan | :28:53. | :29:03. | |
Bradley is the leader in the clubhouse, at at nine o'clock in the | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
company of Phil Mickelson, a Ryder Cup partnership. Here is Russell | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
Fuller. moment, how was it out there? Today | :29:12. | :29:28. | |
is not a day to go out and shoot a low number. It was challenging | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
earlier on in steady rain but I was proud of the way I played. Was it | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
the fact that it was an earlier start for you cause any problems | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
with preparation. I did not get to bed at the normal time that I would. | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
I thought I would be around noon and then I found I was forced off at 9am | :29:48. | :29:54. | |
with a 5:30am wake-up. I do not think it is ever happened in the | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
open. Do you expect somebody to shoot a low score? I think it is | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
under there and I shot 3-under and it was the highest I could have | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
shot. It is a challenging course and you can headed into the bunkers is | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
no matter what the conditions are. Thank you for speaking to us. | :30:13. | :30:41. | |
Can you have a close look at the ball? It is on the down slope but he | :30:42. | :30:49. | |
has got room to get the club up sharply. It is not a picnic but it | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
does give a chance. It could have been a lot worse. | :30:56. | :31:20. | |
He did not quite get that the elevation but it was a good effort. | :31:21. | :31:30. | |
He needed an extra two feet. I will remind you that it is a par five so | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
it is still a birdie attempt to come. | :31:35. | :31:44. | |
7-under. Was Tiger Woods 14-under 21 in 2005? 7-under heads the field. If | :31:45. | :31:58. | |
you are 7-over then you are in trouble. | :31:59. | :32:14. | |
Dustin Johnson was in the rough on the left-hand side but he had a | :32:15. | :32:35. | |
decent lie. It would've been an eagle attempt. | :32:36. | :32:58. | |
This is another big moment for Rory McIlroy. It would be wonderful to | :32:59. | :33:07. | |
escape from that insane bunker with a birdie. What I like to look for is | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
the rhythm of his stroke. It will feel like half a shot, | :33:11. | :33:32. | |
especially after that drive. Just over 150 yards. This 11th | :33:33. | :34:20. | |
hole, the fairway rules up and down like a roller-coaster. -- rolls. | :34:21. | :34:36. | |
Tomorrow, Rickie Fowler will be in Orange, the colours of his Oklahoma | :34:37. | :34:38. | |
State University. He managed to get plenty of hate | :34:39. | :35:05. | |
considering the down slope. That was a lovely shot. It landed softly. As | :35:06. | :35:18. | |
this is usual for Sergio Garcia after that incident at the 10th hole | :35:19. | :35:19. | |
with errors. That was a missed opportunity | :35:20. | :35:35. | |
because of his power just like a Rory McIlroy. | :35:36. | :36:28. | |
Francesco Molinari and the Ryan are both having horrors. -- Ryan Moore. | :36:29. | :36:55. | |
It looks OK. It gives him a chance to get at that Tate). -- tight right | :36:56. | :37:17. | |
pin. There are some dark clouds on the horizon. | :37:18. | :37:29. | |
Francesco Molinari 's coach is disappointed for his man. | :37:30. | :37:46. | |
It is very much a result of the way that he gets the club and that is a | :37:47. | :38:15. | |
good one. It is unorthodox but you cannot argue with the results. | :38:16. | :38:30. | |
Up the hill all the way for Rickie Fowler. Has he hit it? It has. He is | :38:31. | :38:45. | |
now one behind Rory McIlroy. Terrific putts. Such a fluid, | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
flowing stroke. Final hole for Darren Clarke at the | :38:48. | :39:08. | |
9th. He needed a little bit more on that one. You can see him smiling. | :39:09. | :39:21. | |
It is a good day 's work. Best performance of the season, no doubt | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
about that. He played most of the season on the American PGA Tour. | :39:26. | :39:48. | |
It feels just a bit quieter. That noise when Rickie Fowler rolled down | :39:49. | :40:08. | |
the birdie putt, that would've been registered by the group behind. | :40:09. | :40:20. | |
That was interesting. Jim Furyk had a putting home. -- hold. | :40:21. | :41:04. | |
There are some ripples at in until he gets nearer to the Cup. -- in | :41:05. | :41:23. | |
this green. He is quite an interesting character, he is not the | :41:24. | :41:25. | |
quintessential normal Frenchman. This is the first of the two doglegs | :41:26. | :41:49. | |
left. Everything is feeding down towards the three bunkers on the | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
right. The sting has been taken out of the fairways and the fairways are | :41:54. | :41:55. | |
holding, which is good. Like a lot of players, carrying a | :41:56. | :42:05. | |
driving iron. He is responding to Rickie Fowler 's | :42:06. | :42:30. | |
birdie. I am shaking my head at that shot. | :42:31. | :42:49. | |
It was stunning. Johnson has got a much better angle and he will be | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
able to see Rory McIlroy 's ball. He has a better view of the flag. | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
Anything coming has a better view of the flag. | :42:59. | :43:01. | |
should feed down towards the pin position. | :43:02. | :43:32. | |
He has just gone walkabout at the moment, Dustin Johnson. He needs to | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
get some birdies to get back into the game. | :43:39. | :43:53. | |
That is just about far enough. There are bunkers on the right. 290 yards | :43:54. | :44:07. | |
to teach that. Through the ball, there is none better. The club face | :44:08. | :44:10. | |
is on the right angle of attack. This is the shortest hole on the | :44:11. | :44:30. | |
course, the 15th. 6-under for Edoardo Molinari. He is alongside | :44:31. | :44:37. | |
Dustin Johnson now. Terrific round of golf from Darren | :44:38. | :44:58. | |
Clarke. Six birdies. He always enjoys the links. | :44:59. | :46:47. | |
Second shot on 12 for Rickie Fowler. He is producing magical stuff here. | :46:48. | :47:07. | |
That is great to see Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia, exciting young | :47:08. | :47:08. | |
talents in the game. He is a young talent himself, Dustin | :47:09. | :47:22. | |
Johnson. He was par of the American Walker cup team that played against | :47:23. | :47:28. | |
Great Britain and Ireland in 2007 in County Down with Rory McIlroy on the | :47:29. | :47:30. | |
other side. They played each other in the | :47:31. | :47:44. | |
singles matches. It is amazing that they are now playing in the final | :47:45. | :47:52. | |
group of The Open Championship. Tremendous support for Rory McIlroy | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
around the screen. He has a good look at the scoreboard so he is | :47:58. | :47:59. | |
perfectly aware of the situation. makes the most of it. He leads by | :48:00. | :48:32. | |
two. They are a group apart but it is an nice tussle developing between | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy. Rickie Fowler had a couple of | :48:39. | :48:41. | |
birdies and Rory McIlroy responded. APPLAUSE | :48:42. | :49:12. | |
This is fabulous star. One of the most exciting talents in the game. | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
At his very best at the moment. They are enjoying themselves immensely. | :49:19. | :49:36. | |
The rules official will walk around with each match as well as somebody | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
who will look after the bunker. Talking about young talents in the | :49:41. | :50:05. | |
game versus Victor Dubuisson. -- this is. He has just slowed down a | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
little bit. This was for a birdie for a 68. Five | :50:11. | :50:32. | |
birdies and no dropped shots. He will sit alongside Darren Clarke on | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
5-under. They will end up playing together tomorrow. Those look | :50:37. | :50:47. | |
comfy, those giant beanbags. Difficult to get up from. | :50:48. | :51:13. | |
I do not like the way that that one dived in there there. | :51:14. | :51:54. | |
That is Tigers X Caddy. -- ex-caddy. It is a good angle, you can see the | :51:55. | :52:11. | |
green from you. -- from here. You can see the marker close to the | :52:12. | :52:54. | |
hole of Sergio Garcia. Rickie Fowler will go first. | :52:55. | :53:35. | |
Striking it will go first. | :53:36. | :53:35. | |
That was downhill. He has played Fowler, within one of | :53:36. | :54:06. | |
That was downhill. He has played very well this week but he pushed | :54:07. | :54:08. | |
that. When you are hitting it so well, | :54:09. | :54:27. | |
giving yourself chances, and you're playing partner is rolling in the | :54:28. | :54:29. | |
birdies, it hurts. Adam Scott had some problems today. | :54:30. | :54:51. | |
This was to get to 4-under. It is a Adam Scott had some problems today. | :54:52. | :55:20. | |
long way back from here. Just a few holes and tomorrow to go. | :55:21. | :55:42. | |
Unlucky. He has been playing quite nicely but he had a double bogey at | :55:43. | :56:02. | |
the 2nd. Tiger Woods is playing the court back to front, he is | :56:03. | :56:07. | |
the 2nd. Tiger Woods is playing the front nine but it is his back nine | :56:08. | :56:08. | |
today. You cannot believe from this angle | :56:09. | :56:35. | |
that the green goes far to the left, it is almost on the beach. It is an | :56:36. | :56:44. | |
intimidating hole but the way that Rickie Fowler is going, I would not | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
be surprised if he ends up knocking this one close. He is going with a | :56:49. | :56:50. | |
seven iron. APPLAUSE | :56:51. | :57:32. | |
He has done well but it has finished on an upslope. He will have to chip. | :57:33. | :57:56. | |
170 yards to go and that has gone to the left. Paying the price for | :57:57. | :58:06. | |
missing the fairway with a iron. In she goes, another birdie for | :58:07. | :58:43. | |
Matteo Manassero. He has had a mixed bag. Three bogeys and six birdies. | :58:44. | :59:07. | |
You wonder what is going through the mind of Sergio Garcia. He has to go | :59:08. | :59:12. | |
202 yards. The flag is not moving at all, | :59:13. | :59:50. | |
hardly. The crowds are down slightly on 2006, but still very big compared | :59:51. | :59:57. | |
to other Championship venues. These are the alphabetical scores on the | :59:58. | :00:02. | |
bottom of the screen. The last light was eight to out of ten. -- was a | :00:03. | :00:15. | |
two out of ten. This is a 8.5 out of ten. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
And that to stay in the lead. Stay in the lead on his own. | :00:20. | :00:41. | |
Jim Furyk for his par at 14. A good chip from down there as well. | :00:42. | :01:45. | |
That ball stayed on the upslope rather than slipping into the | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
hollow. The shot has become much more manageable. Meanwhile, to Marc | :01:52. | :02:01. | |
Leishman, a chance for him to get to five underpar. They are stacking up | :02:02. | :02:11. | |
behind, a lot of these players are still some way adrift. | :02:12. | :02:47. | |
Dustin Johnson has not had a birdie since the 1st hole. He still | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
hasn't. It will be nice if one of these | :02:54. | :03:19. | |
putts drops for Sergio Garcia. Some of them he has knocked so close you | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
did not think he could miss, but he still has. The standard of golf he | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
is playing is a still has. The standard of golf he | :03:32. | :03:32. | |
his school has been. 9-under, format behind. -- four | :03:33. | :04:17. | |
behind. It is really Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler who are showing | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
the rest how to do it. They left himself a relatively straight uphill | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
one. First time since early in his first round that he has not had the | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
sole League alongside Rickie Fowler. | :04:39. | :04:53. | |
Rickie Fowler, 6-under for his round. Rory McIlroy is level par. | :04:54. | :05:12. | |
Charl Schwartzel, laying off the backflip, gouging an old divot. | :05:13. | :05:27. | |
Magical! It went right along the top of the tight rope. I thought for a | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
moment it would fall off, but it stayed on. | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
The weather has not been vintage, but the heaviest rain has stayed | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
away for good spells, and we have been rewarded with some fantastic | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
golf. Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy or on -- are on top of the | :05:55. | :05:55. | |
leaderboard. I don't think it is any surprise, | :05:56. | :06:15. | |
the way Rickie Fowler is blowing. The first two time they played in | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
the Open Championship in Saint Andrews and Saint Georges, he was | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
leading. If you put all eight rounds together he beat anyone else that | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
played in those two opens. He is putting with such confidence. | :06:32. | :06:43. | |
They clear the green, waiting back on the | :06:44. | :07:12. | |
Some very heavy rain looks like it is happening to the North at the | :07:13. | :07:32. | |
moment. It does happen in this part of the world, I am told, that things | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
can skirt round this golf course to land North and South. Rory McIlroy | :07:38. | :07:50. | |
can only just seen the top of the flag, which is barely flickering. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
The tee is barely flickering or so. Tried to draw it in, but a nastier | :07:55. | :08:13. | |
hop, a vindictive leap to the right. On the next hole, Rickie Fowler. | :08:14. | :08:38. | |
Actually, it is a wide fairways here at 14, sleeping left-to-right. The | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
bunker is on the left, 280 yards, the bunker on the right is a bit | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
further. yards wide, a bell shaped fairway, | :08:51. | :09:20. | |
but that seems to dive into a bit of a thicket. This is how it has played | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
today. A bit of a breeze helping with Ryan | :09:25. | :09:44. | |
Moore's tee shot on 14. It just came up in the last couple of minutes. | :09:45. | :10:04. | |
Ideal, and now to Sergio. We were treated to Rory McIlroy at his best | :10:05. | :10:14. | |
yesterday, and today we have been treated by Garcia and Rickie Fowler. | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
It is wonderful to see these guys being so creative. You have to be | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
creative on this course. It is a work of art. If you hit these | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
fairways, with the softer greens, you have a chance to get closer. | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
That is why these players are playing safe at 14. | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
A nice one. A low, drilling draw shot, onto the slope of the fairway. | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
The further right you go, the longer the second shot, but a better view | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
of the green you get. Charl Schwartzel on the 14th green, | :10:53. | :11:10. | |
pops in. He is fighting back. A couple of bogeys on the back nine, | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
but now one birdie. There is the 13th green there, down to the 14th, | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
wonderful crowds here as we look out over the estuary, and towards the | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
misty cloudy hills of North Wales. Victor Dubuisson. That will be a par | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
and he will remain alongside Charl Schwartzel and Jim Furyk on 7-under | :11:39. | :11:50. | |
par. Victor Dubuisson and is currently in a tie for fourth place, | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
but significantly at the top it is Rickie Fowler 6-under for his round | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
today, and Rory McIlroy is level for his round today, and that is why we | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
have a stalemate at the top with a few holes left to play on this third | :12:03. | :12:14. | |
day. What about Graeme McDowell? Three Northern Ireland men are all | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
major winners, two US opens and a PGA and the other titles between | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
them. Well played, Graham, especially on | :12:26. | :12:39. | |
the back nine. Some unpleasant weather conditions. When we started | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
off this morning, it was nasty, the first few balls. It was raining | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
pretty hard. It is a tough start to this course. The front nine didn't | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
really go my way. I took some flags on that I didn't need to you and | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
bogeyed a tank made the turn in one other, thinking, this is not really | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
happening. The back nine was kind to me yesterday. Thankfully I made some | :13:07. | :13:21. | |
good swings. I think you are realistic about your chances, you | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
are a bit far back and there are some quality players with some | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
opportunities over the back nine this afternoon. The skies have | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
cleared a bit and the wind is negligible. The greens are quite | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
soft and they are very pure to put on -- to putt on. The two T start, | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
you could question it, but it is not going to make a difference. The | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
morning guys will have had a tougher time than the afternoon guys. The | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
decision will not affect them much apart from somebody tracking of like | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
this afternoon. I am too far back. I expect the deed is to play a solid | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
back nine and they will be out of touching distance for the and Lessig | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
really blows hard tomorrow. Thanks. Look at this one here. It looks OK. | :14:14. | :14:32. | |
How is he going to play at? That was a creative shot there. Pretty good. | :14:33. | :14:44. | |
Just like Phil was saying, it is such a delight to create shot if you | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
are a good player on the links. Fowler in the hay, digging it out | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
there on the 14th. He had given himself a good position to try to | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
find the green and save his par. Both leaders are in a bit of bother. | :15:05. | :15:15. | |
Garcia's tee shot leaves him in a great position here. | :15:16. | :15:36. | |
Not risking the right side, if you had the bank down there it kicks | :15:37. | :15:50. | |
into the rough, so sensible play. Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia are | :15:51. | :15:51. | |
active players. Dustin Johnson, a good tee shot on | :15:52. | :16:04. | |
the 13th. Finally! Finally, Dustin Johnson | :16:05. | :16:18. | |
finds his second birdie of the day after he birdied the first. He | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
looked like he was setting sail for good things, but it is back to | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
7-under. A horrible run leading up to the turn. | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
He is one of these poets which is easier to see. Not outside the | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
whole. He has putted well, and usually when | :16:46. | :17:11. | |
he has putted well, he is there or thereabouts. He will know that | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
Rickie Fowler is having a few problems ahead. | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
Rickie is third now, and even from this close, with that position and | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
the banks to the right, it is intimidating, difficult to get | :17:29. | :17:29. | |
Just playing a bit cagey, giving close. | :17:30. | :17:41. | |
Just playing a bit cagey, giving himself an outside chance of saving | :17:42. | :17:51. | |
his par. Quite a steep angle of attack, and can almost see the ball | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
running up the grooves as he strikes it, the ball spinning. | :17:54. | :18:05. | |
And Matteo Manassero, six birdies today, and number seven comes at his | :18:06. | :18:19. | |
final hole. A round of 68 from Manassero, and this is a day that | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
the youngsters are showing the rest had to do it. He got off to a rocky | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
start, but 6-under par, a tie for eighth place at the moment. You | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
think of Manassero in there and more importantly, Rickie Fowler and Rory | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
McIlroy at the top, two 25-year-olds. Sergio Garcia is not | :18:43. | :19:08. | |
spectator's point of view, it is very exhilarating. There we are, we | :19:09. | :19:34. | |
talked about the seals yesterday, a whole family of them out there. | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
There is one on his back having a lovely time. There are about 200 of | :19:39. | :19:48. | |
them across the way. I am not sure the salmon fish is enjoyed them, | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
because they make their group, there is a whole family there. Back to the | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
golf! Let's see if Garcia can roll this one in for a birdie after being | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
in a different off the tee shot. Almost forced to play safe with the | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
life he had. There are not that many within a | :20:06. | :20:18. | |
real touching distance, but more than I thought there might be at one | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
time. Schwartzel came to a bit of a halt | :20:21. | :20:37. | |
with a double bogey. I think, although there is some conversation | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
about the two T start and the weather, I think it has worked out | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
pretty well, and we have been very lucky. There has not been an awful | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
lot of rain. The course has stood things remarkably well. I am sure a | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
lot of players, although it is not the done thing, would not mind doing | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
this again tomorrow. But it doesn't quite work out that way. David | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
Howell, Mark James. Thanks, Peter. This is an eagle for Fowler. Two | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
lovely shots. And back to Rory and Dustin Johnson, | :21:14. | :21:52. | |
chatting away. That is one of the extraordinary things about golf, it | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
allows you to do this sort of thing. You can hardly have a chat at tennis | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
or crooked... Well, they do have a chat at cricket sometimes, but not | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
in a very compliment we wait, I am told! But I would not know anything | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
about that. I would imagine there is a bit going on at the cricket, in | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
the Test match. Let's see if Fowler can save par at 14. How many times | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
have we said it today, a wayward tee shot? How many times has it been | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
true? Rory coming up behind will have an opportunity, if he can get a | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
format here to grab the lead again. Garcia has got to take his time on | :22:39. | :22:55. | |
this one, because he has missed one at this distance a few holes ago. A | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
better stroke. The one he missed was a very weak effort. He did not look | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
comfortable. That was better. He still does not look as comfortable | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
as they can on the greens. He is playing some good golf. Rickie | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Fowler taps in, drops a shot. They move away. The next group are | :23:21. | :23:44. | |
almost in position to hit. There they are. Nasty clouds. We have had | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
those all day. It has been very ominous, but so far, the golfing | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
gods have been kind. I would what that's huge cheer that is. There is | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
a camera on the end of that, giving you some wonderful pictures. Dustin | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
Johnson is a bit short, a bit shy, and you can see the flag on the left | :24:07. | :24:19. | |
, an awkward place. Justin Rose on the 18th. This for a 69. Well done. | :24:20. | :24:32. | |
Takes into 5-under. Continuing his very fine season. | :24:33. | :24:42. | |
tomorrow. There should not be any storms, the odd shower perhaps, but | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
not too much wind. Judging from what we have had today, it will probably | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
be blowing a gale and pouring with rain tomorrow. So far we have | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
escaped very well. Victor Dubuisson on, I like watching him. | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
And he has missed it. I had an e-mail earlier saying, they are | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
looking for lookalikes. This man thought he looks like the man who | :25:16. | :25:29. | |
played Cardinal Richelieu in the three Musketeers. We will wait until | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
he turns round so we can have a look at him. | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
All these players are knocking on one click short. But a good solid | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
hit, one click short. But a good solid | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
holes on this back nine, this 14th uphill, semi-blind. If he can get | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
one birdie, no drop shot and a birdie, maybe two birdies, he will | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
have had a good day. Those mudflats do not look attractive when the tide | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
is out, but some splendid houses down the road to the sea. All this | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
has to be taken down on Monday. It might take them a day or two. | :26:19. | :26:43. | |
Over, 166, this whole today -- this hole today. A lovely card from | :26:44. | :26:56. | |
Sheila Darbyshire, a British fan. I can she has got tired of watching | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
the football, but she's looking forward to the Ryder Cup. Glad you | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
are enjoying things, Sheila. A bit topsy-turvy today, and lots of | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
things of interest, and another day tomorrow with a lot of players | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
jockeying for position. Rickie Fowler is one of them. Here he is at | :27:15. | :27:16. | |
the 15th. Very little wind. This whole becomes | :27:17. | :27:37. | |
a birdie chance. Neither of those were as close as they would have | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
liked. The green is like a bowl, the apron sloping back towards the pin. | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
There is more golf next week at Royal Porthcawl. It is the seniors. | :27:52. | :28:00. | |
They are testing their skills on another mighty course, halfway | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
between Cardiff and Swansea on the coast. If you have not been, it is | :28:05. | :28:12. | |
delightful along the coast. Edoardo Molinari now, coming out of the | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
light rough on Just came out with no spin, just | :28:15. | :28:26. | |
trickling over the back, and down for a score of 69. Currently | :28:27. | :28:36. | |
6-under. His brother has had a miserable day so far, played in the | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
last group. It is incredible how even really good players like | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
Francesco Molinari can have days when nothing ever goes right. That | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
is sport. You can go in feeling like $1 million and missed the first | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
ball. And sometimes the people who write about it don't understand | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
that. They think everybody who is good should play brilliantly all the | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
time. That is not 1 million miles away. Not 1 million miles away, | :29:04. | :29:15. | |
Dustin Johnson. Will Rory McIlroy have learnt anything? He's a long | :29:16. | :29:23. | |
way off. He will settle for two putts as well. 34 Dustin Johnson. | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
Just for maglev. spec marks? Was it Bernard Langer or | :29:30. | :29:51. | |
Greg Norman? I do not think I ever saw Arnold Palmer do it. -- spike | :29:52. | :30:04. | |
marks. It just seems to be the thing to do. Aren't I a nice person? I do | :30:05. | :30:15. | |
not know what is going on down here? I think make the book at | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
bedtime. Constant bobbing and weaving from the crowd. | :30:20. | :30:26. | |
I love theses, don't you? I could just look at those faces. What tales | :30:27. | :30:36. | |
they may be able to tell. The man on the right with the fancy pants and | :30:37. | :30:38. | |
they half glass of beer. You have missed it again, what is | :30:39. | :30:56. | |
the matter with you? You used to be so good at those but you are hanging | :30:57. | :30:57. | |
on. Just like that. It is a ridiculous | :30:58. | :31:20. | |
game, isn't it? He had a couple of birdies today and then that one, | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
then a bit of a struggle, then he sinks one from 14 yards. It is worth | :31:27. | :31:34. | |
a smile. Well done, Rory. He has worked hard for his score, | :31:35. | :31:48. | |
Rory. That was a beauty to get in. Just two par fives to come. It has | :31:49. | :31:56. | |
been a tricky day for him. He looked nervous walking to the first tee. | :31:57. | :31:58. | |
You did say that. Look out. They are all doing it now. | :31:59. | :32:14. | |
It is becoming silly. 68 for Edoardo Molinari. He has had his health | :32:15. | :32:24. | |
problems. It is nice to see him back again. They love the Gulf in Italy. | :32:25. | :32:33. | |
That is the situation and Rory leads by two. | :32:34. | :32:59. | |
He is now two behind Rory McIlroy after the bogey on the previous | :33:00. | :33:11. | |
green. Plenty can happen on the last three calls. Two par fives that are | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
reachable. I still find that hat fascinating. It is a train drivers | :33:17. | :33:24. | |
hat. It is different from the other people 's baseball hats. Never | :33:25. | :33:26. | |
mind, the world will go on. Three under, 9-under for the | :33:27. | :33:52. | |
Championship. He really felt that one. Two par fives to come, if he | :33:53. | :34:03. | |
can birdie those two, he is playing well enough, get to 11-under, he has | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
a good chance at this unless Rory McIlroy goes mad. An eagle as | :34:09. | :34:21. | |
possible. It can be done. -- is possible. | :34:22. | :34:55. | |
Cant wait to get the par in his hands. -- the putter. | :34:56. | :35:13. | |
It was a mighty of the TV. Even in the rough he is round the corner. | :35:14. | :35:32. | |
551 yards this final hole. He has done at or near enough. That is | :35:33. | :35:42. | |
silly. Cricket pitch away but he is on. A modest nod and a little smile. | :35:43. | :36:03. | |
He went straight over the bunker and right next to the pin, good shot. | :36:04. | :36:22. | |
man over the last six years. Amazing. He is coping with it very | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
well. By Dom, he gave that the full | :36:29. | :36:50. | |
treatment, didn't he? Is that heading towards trouble? Yes, no. | :36:51. | :37:00. | |
Maybe just poor enough to stop them getting to the green. | :37:01. | :37:33. | |
To be young! That is trouble, I think. Be a busy couple of bunkers | :37:34. | :37:51. | |
beer. -- there is a couple of bunkers up there. | :37:52. | :38:00. | |
It will be a pitch out and a pitch out and what a time to eat. I always | :38:01. | :38:15. | |
thought he got indigestion when you start down your face. I remember | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
when we played, some clubs had an old water fountain about the ninth | :38:21. | :38:23. | |
hole which we never used in the winter. | :38:24. | :38:33. | |
It is not coming. When I think of those old water fountains with the | :38:34. | :38:41. | |
Brown, rusty water which was horrible stuff. Now it is, do you | :38:42. | :38:59. | |
want sparkling water or still? We had a little metal ball with a chain | :39:00. | :39:09. | |
on it. Was it on a chain to stop it being stolen? Probably. Do not drop | :39:10. | :39:22. | |
the main ease down your clean shot. -- shirt. | :39:23. | :39:37. | |
It could be, no. I thought it was into. Do not be too greedy. If you | :39:38. | :39:54. | |
get two fours at the 16th and 18th then you will be a very happy bunny. | :39:55. | :40:26. | |
Three South Africans playing together. They all speak... | :40:27. | :41:02. | |
should get off the player mats. This has been a remarkable time around | :41:03. | :41:08. | |
since I looked out of my window this morning and I saw those black chrome | :41:09. | :41:09. | |
dash-mac clouds creeping in. Pretty good. He has made it, | :41:10. | :41:58. | |
finally. Things are once again going right for Dustin. Back to 8-under. | :41:59. | :42:25. | |
That was a pool stroke for this vanquished housen. He is a over | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
today. -- Oosthuizen. Of the green, maybe? He does look a | :42:29. | :43:04. | |
bit like the cardinal from the three Musketeers. Was there a cardinal in | :43:05. | :43:14. | |
the Monty Python? There might well have been. | :43:15. | :43:44. | |
That was his third shot and it was from a long way. It is over there in | :43:45. | :44:00. | |
the green stuff. It looks like the watercress line. Now the caddies are | :44:01. | :44:06. | |
eating, they even feed the caddies nowadays. | :44:07. | :44:25. | |
That is a nice, tidy finish. Brandon Scott. Not the greatest first name | :44:26. | :44:53. | |
but came home in style. The large sticks up for lining up and using on | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
the range. You can stick them in the ground in front of you as a tracking | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
device. You can do anything with them virtually. They tend not to | :45:04. | :45:06. | |
break and they are very light so the caddies do not complain. Good luck | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
for your centenary. look a better lie. It can deceive | :45:13. | :45:32. | |
sometimes. You can catch it on top of the club and it does not go | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
anywhere so you have to be mindful of that and keep the club going | :45:37. | :45:45. | |
above the ground. Be wary of that. He has got about 230 two the front. | :45:46. | :45:53. | |
-- to the front. He can just about make it. On lucky. -- unlucky. Not | :45:54. | :46:06. | |
too bad now. Second putt at the 18th, Victor | :46:07. | :46:17. | |
Dubuisson. What a lovely way to finish. He is | :46:18. | :46:38. | |
in our Ryder Cup team. Six birdies. We need him. This back nine has | :46:39. | :46:48. | |
certainly brightened Johnson's day, another birdie chance here. I do not | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
like the sound of that, but he did shout four. You do not shout four | :46:56. | :47:05. | |
when there is nobody there. He is going back. | :47:06. | :47:17. | |
Paul wants to know, can we buy clubs like the professionals use? More or | :47:18. | :47:29. | |
less but they take more care. In the length and thickness of the grid and | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
all that. But they are basically the same. 95%, anyway. That is a | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
beautiful drive. I think he has ripped that passed | :47:40. | :47:54. | |
the 328 bunker that we saw Sergio Garcia by. Jim Furyk, 17th hole for | :47:55. | :48:06. | |
the 328 bunker that we saw Sergio a par. No! Gym, whatever happened to | :48:07. | :48:07. | |
Jim? -- Jim Furyk. We are coming to the end of this, | :48:08. | :48:28. | |
the third day. A trouble today, they thought it was going to be troubled, | :48:29. | :48:32. | |
the thunder and lightning and the end of the world was coming, but it | :48:33. | :48:35. | |
did not arrive goodness for the golfers. That is the situation with | :48:36. | :48:40. | |
just a handful of players left out on the course. Rory McIlroy is still | :48:41. | :48:43. | |
ahead of the pack. Still a couple The shot. -- the fourth shot. Rickie | :48:44. | :49:10. | |
Fowler's four. Chasing it along -- forth. It did not quite release. We | :49:11. | :49:12. | |
are lucky we forth. It did not quite release. We | :49:13. | :49:23. | |
were told to get there one iron out if we did get the storms because not | :49:24. | :49:28. | |
even God can hit a 1-iron! You just made that up! Dave Telford has sent | :49:29. | :49:37. | |
us a message. Regarding the death of Bob Torrance on. I am sure the | :49:38. | :49:45. | |
family will be listening and a lot of people are sending messages of | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
family will be listening and a lot condolence and narration -- memories | :49:52. | :49:54. | |
of your dad and things he said which were amusing. A good man. | :49:55. | :50:09. | |
Not too bad. A quick hello to my brother's wife's sister who is | :50:10. | :50:18. | |
getting married today to Mike, have a great day and I hope it is not to | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
Mike, have a great day and I hope it is not too disrupted by the good | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
golf! I hope you have given them a decent present. Not a set of | :50:26. | :50:28. | |
saucepans. Fish knives and forks. No one can do without fish knives! | :50:29. | :50:50. | |
And the fish server looks like something you lay cement with. Who | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
is in there? I do not think you can play it, Tiger. Is it mine? No, that | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
is not mine. There is a ball here! Silver Birch, all those things. I | :51:03. | :51:30. | |
know some of my friends hate these bushes on the course. | :51:31. | :51:48. | |
on this long par four. Back left. He has gone miles left. That hit and it | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
went left. I have the greatest admiration for | :51:55. | :52:16. | |
spectators. They follow the stewards. They behave, apart from | :52:17. | :52:26. | |
the occasional few, on the hole, they are an amazing lot. -- for the | :52:27. | :52:29. | |
most part. A very different sort of day. The | :52:30. | :52:47. | |
leaders would normally just about be going out now, just after three | :52:48. | :52:56. | |
o'clock. Rickie Fowler. This is to stop the rot, and he has not. Hardly | :52:57. | :53:04. | |
rot, but just a little chink. A three shot lead. It could well be. | :53:05. | :53:15. | |
If Rory McIlroy can make four. It would increase to four. | :53:16. | :53:27. | |
Garcia has a putt to go to double figures. | :53:28. | :53:33. | |
Some very good schools today. I think they have handled the course | :53:34. | :54:14. | |
well -- good scores. Oil at is a good test. -- Hoylake. People wonder | :54:15. | :54:24. | |
why it is called Liverpool when it is not in Liverpool, it goes back | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
hundreds of years, do not let it bother you. They do not mind being | :54:29. | :54:37. | |
called Hoylake or Royal Liverpool. Fascinating day. Jim Furyk, his | :54:38. | :54:43. | |
shot. Was that a snap up or was that my | :54:44. | :55:01. | |
imagination? It was not. -- a snap all. That does not look great. It | :55:02. | :55:03. | |
could be horrid. Dustin Johnson. Lucky to get right | :55:04. | :55:17. | |
to the edge of the fake of the fit -- of the thick. He belted it and | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
there is not a sound, did it just disappear? A pretty big target. | :55:24. | :55:35. | |
Sometimes I wonder whether the players will have to hit it from the | :55:36. | :55:40. | |
left or right. It is not easy to feather in a 9-iron. A big moment | :55:41. | :55:43. | |
for Rory McIlroy, one good one. He is looking good, I think, he | :55:44. | :55:58. | |
likes it. Does he like it? He loves it! That shows the power of Michael | :55:59. | :56:07. | |
Roy, up onto the green easily -- Rory McIlroy. 577 yards through the | :56:08. | :56:15. | |
middle of the green. Do you know the story of his head cover? It is | :56:16. | :56:25. | |
obviously a well loved head cover. Probably given to him by his mum. I | :56:26. | :56:31. | |
have no idea. Somebody has to fit had any significance. We will try to | :56:32. | :56:37. | |
find out. -- somebody asked me if it had any significance. They have been | :56:38. | :56:46. | |
together a long time. They have, they won a couple of Majors. Sergio | :56:47. | :56:53. | |
is looking pretty menacing right now. He has the bit between his | :56:54. | :56:55. | |
teeth. The crowd like it and he seems | :56:56. | :57:17. | |
satisfied, we have not a clue. It is a funny sky for following the ball. | :57:18. | :57:30. | |
They frame it up and so -- so you can follow the flight of the ball, | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
but it is not the easiest thing in the world to do, but degree when you | :57:35. | :57:40. | |
have this grey sky. Fowler is down the middle. He is OK. | :57:41. | :57:57. | |
Jim Furyk. He is uncomfortable. He wants to avoid | :57:58. | :58:10. | |
that. If he can get both feet in the bunker, it makes you lower half more | :58:11. | :58:18. | |
that. If he can get both feet in the action of the ball. -- | :58:19. | :58:25. | |
that. If he can get both feet in the this off his knees. Well done! | :58:26. | :58:27. | |
that. If he can get both feet in the will do! That will do very nicely! | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
Yes! Robert Karlsson showing his | :58:34. | :58:42. | |
appreciation for that bunker shot. Charl Schwartzel has had a drop from | :58:43. | :59:02. | |
left. He was behind the grandstand. He gets the opportunity to move | :59:03. | :59:06. | |
away, no penalty. Tiger looks as though he is on his way back to try | :59:07. | :59:13. | |
for another. Is that the same we saw five minutes ago? I think so. He is | :59:14. | :59:17. | |
a same -- he is a slow walker these days. There would be a time -- there | :59:18. | :59:25. | |
was a time he would have been driven back. I wonder what the members will | :59:26. | :59:32. | |
be thinking in another six, eight weeks. Do you remember when so and | :59:33. | :59:40. | |
so did so and so? Let me see what I can do from here! | :59:41. | :59:50. | |
Amateur golf began here when Championship golf began. When you | :59:51. | :59:59. | |
look at the history of the club, why don't we get the best amateurs in | :00:00. | :00:04. | |
the country together, they said? Let's see who is the best amateur | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
player, and that is how it began. It was the first amateur Championship. | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
1885? Something like that. It is wonderful the origins of amateur | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
golf, they have kept them going over the years. Rory McIlroy has just | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
golf, they have kept them going over to miss that coin in front of him, | :00:30. | :00:30. | |
No. Yes! It kept going, I thought it that marker. | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
No. Yes! It kept going, I thought it would go right. What a bonus, I | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
thought that would go to the right. Rory McIlroy has struck a couple of | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
blows in the last 30 minutes. Another round yet. He must not step | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
ahead. That is He has got another coming up at the | :00:53. | :01:07. | |
18th. It is amazing. He was tied with Rickie Fowler a couple of holes | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
ago and suddenly a five shot lead. Charl Schwartzel the par, at 17. -- | :01:14. | :01:28. | |
Marc Leishman. -- for par. It looked good, but it just strayed off. | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
Marc Warren. At the 18th. Into the hillside. No, no, no. | :01:39. | :02:10. | |
Incredibly still with the conditions. Maybe just a fraction of | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
breeze which is different than it has been in the last couple of days. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Garcia, still over 200 jobs left. Phil, you must be surprise, wait a | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
moment and we will see what Garcia does. It sounded a whisker heavy, | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
maybe not. It is not fading much. That is not good. When you went out | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
this morning, little did you think you would have a dry round! I have | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
got my waterproofs on and ID not need them. It is amazing. -- I did | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
not. It was doom and gloom at eight o'clock this morning and it started | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
to rain heavily. There had been some thunder but it has been remarkably | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
free along the Wirral. I am sure if you have had thunder and lightning, | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
we apologise, we cannot help that. Charl Schwartzel at the 18th. | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
The former Masters champion, of course. A classic swing. A modern | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
swing. A lot of power. Straight on the bunker, over it. He was going | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
well at the back lanes caught him out, he has had three bogeys, one | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
birdie. The back nine of biting back again. Dustin Johnson for a birdie | :03:40. | :03:53. | |
at 16. That is two he has left. I such a margin. -- by such margins | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
Championships are won and lost. Marc Warren, having played... A bad | :04:00. | :04:11. | |
result from the back of the 18th. This, for a birdie. He hit two | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
magnificent shots to go right past the pin. Fowler. He has a good angle | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
going into that left hole position. On top of that rich. -- Ridge. He | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
fancies it, I think. No, you does not. And there is horrid stuff | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
fancies it, I think. No, you does there. You have to hit so hard, it | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
is hit it and hope. Suddenly playing a bit longer. Sergio hit a wood of | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
the tee. Jim Furyk. A round of 71. 6-under par. Two | :04:55. | :05:21. | |
bogeys in the last seven taking the shine off that round. | :05:22. | :05:32. | |
Back to the tee the Rory McIlroy. -- for Rory McIlroy. Find the fairway. | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
And he has. Robert Karlsson, he was in the first | :05:44. | :06:18. | |
group on Thursday. A five and a six in the last couple of holes. Round | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
in 70, a pretty good score. A reminder of how it stands and that | :06:21. | :06:39. | |
eagle at the 16th has given Rory McIlroy breathing space. Five shots | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
back to Rickie Fowler and Garcia who have made a dynamic duel. They are | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
spreading out further down, Jim Furyk is home. And Justin Rose, the | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
pre-championship favourite, back to back victories in his last two | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
events, he is a long way away, ten shots back from McIlroy. He finishes | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
at 5-under in the Championship so far and a birdie, birdie finish, | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
let's get his thoughts with Russell. Your thoughts on that round, a 69, | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
5-under par for the Championship. Today was a nice day to play golf, | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
there has been threatening weather and the warm up was terrible. It | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
turned into a nice day, not much wind. This is my lowest round for | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
the week but my 70 was much better than that round today and I had an | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
opportunity to go low today, a lot of chances on the back nine and I | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
could not get them to drop. Has that been the story of your week, have | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
you been on the fringe of things? Yes,, I was on the trickiest side of | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
the draw -- yes,. You are trying to play catch-up. I played a lot of | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
good golf, I felt comfortable, just maybe I have not had my run yet so | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
hopefully things will click tomorrow. A bit too far back to win | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
if I am on list, but there is always pride to play for. I feel there is a | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
low round on me and you never know what conditions might bring tomorrow | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
-- on me. We hope you find one, thank you, Justin. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
I do not think it was lashing down with rain, he has become quite a | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
gentle soul. That has gone way right. He is not that far wide. It | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
does not look too bad. A nice message from David Hunter | :08:43. | :08:55. | |
about the North of England open amateur youth Championship. Colin | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
Montgomery, all those players played in it. It is played again in the | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
middle of August. I think I did play in it, possibly. It is of history at | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
big event for young amateurs in the North of England. Middlesbrough golf | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
club, that is where it is played -- it was played in 2013. This is | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
another chance. He had two different results and | :09:23. | :09:38. | |
that will go back, probably. Rory will have a six shot lead in a | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
minute. Amazing. Don't count your chickens! | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Charl Schwartzel. Surely? Can he chase it up over the rough? Into the | :09:51. | :10:02. | |
bunker, I fancy. It would have made it. This 18th hole, playing 581 | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
yards, is very reachable for the big boys. The 17th, 460 yards, is still | :10:10. | :10:22. | |
a big hit. Ryan Moore. 4-over on the front. He got a couple back this | :10:23. | :10:23. | |
nine. That is a good putt. 4-under for the | :10:24. | :10:40. | |
Championship right now. I think a lot of spectators would be put off | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
coming today because of the weather forecast but still a healthy crowd | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
and they have seen good golf. There were so many umbrellas up before it | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
was almost silent. I remember in 1981, the Ryder Cup, no applause. | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
You cannot win you hold an umbrella. -- when. | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
You cannot win you hold an umbrella. negotiate and he did not quite pull | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
You cannot win you hold an umbrella. it off. This to save par. No. He is | :11:15. | :11:26. | |
not putting badly but he does not hold it like the others. That was | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
the case of a misdirected second shot, that is a big target. It is | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
not my job to criticise, I just observe, but it is a big target. He | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
put it to the left and it cost him dear. Rory is waiting. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
put it to the left and it cost him if he held cutlery like that, he | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
would starve to death! I used to call that the King's Cross | :11:52. | :12:09. | |
station right hand grip. That is his head cover. It is Snoopy the dog, it | :12:10. | :12:19. | |
must be a loved ornament. No! A great putt, just an inch short. It | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
was a good try. A six shot lead. McIlroy. And there may be more to | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
con. Dashed to come. The middle of the green, we should finish four, | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
four, that would be brilliant. -- more to come. For his family and | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
supporters and friends, and all the rest. | :12:50. | :13:07. | |
This is the three ball, the South African three ball, we will call | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
them. They have not, as good as I thought they would. -- they have | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
not,. Charl Schwartzel looks to be the best of the group. Louis | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
Oosthuizen has done all right. Rory is ready. And he has got the same | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
club he had into the last, a 4-iron. Let's hope for another good one. It | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
is not bad. He looks a little anxious. Yes. That does not look too | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
bad. That is where you do not want to be. A bit of room over the other | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
side. He is trying to do what Sergio did, he is trying to fade it in. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Why? Because it looks the easiest shot. You play a game of which I am | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
not familiar. We thought hitting straight was all right! Dustin | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
Johnson, he does not look enchanted with that. I can see why now. Down | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
the slope. want to get it high to get over that | :14:27. | :14:43. | |
narrow entrance. The 18th tee. Sergio Garcia, has a reputation of | :14:44. | :15:04. | |
being one of the finest drivers. But he's hit a few wayward ones this | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
week. Yeah, a couple of bunkers down the left side and players tends to | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
go down the left because they are scared of the out of bounds, even | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
though they generally don't take enough club to reach that out of | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
bounds. This is the 16th as they play it, the first, second, 16, 17 | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
and 18 are for the members. If you hit it at the yellow scoreboards | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
down at the other end, that is the line you want it on. I confess that | :15:45. | :15:57. | |
I don't see it. Don't know where that is. He was aiming a long way | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
left. Trying to fly the left-hand bunkers at 280 odd. Coming back | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
towards the fairway. Only just. McIlroy has quite a decent lie, but | :16:14. | :16:46. | |
it is one that asks the question, do you loft it over all of the bumps? | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
I'm not sure, he might knuckle it into the bank and let it drift left | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
to right down to the flag. We saw him hit one yesterday out of this | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
sort of stuff with an absolutely wonderful touch. If he does it again | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
it looks suspiciously like he's just extremely good! This is very | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
difficult. It will be backwards, back to his feet. If he drops a shot | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
here, maybe two, I don't know what will happen in the next ten | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
minutes, but caused by a missed second shot. Very difficult coming | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
up that hill. Good lie or not. There are moments when, and I call | :17:29. | :17:46. | |
it the Jack Nicklaus brain, having watched him for 40 years, he's won | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
the Championship 18 times, second 19 times, you realise what a master he | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
was, and when he had to do a job he did it. If it called for two | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
5-irons up the fairway, that's what it was. Brilliant. Just needs a | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
good, pace putt here. Bogeys are not something you can't recover from. | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
How is this? That would have been obscene if that had gone in. It's so | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
nearly did but he escaped with one drops shots. Four at the last and | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
all would be forgiven but still a wasted opportunity. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Jack Nicklaus was an amazing attack technician, but some of them like | :18:48. | :19:09. | |
McIlroy, Scott, they are so good, that if you try to play safe like | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
Tiger did at Lytham the other year, they just breeze past you. This was | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
a birdie but it does not head in. It is not just playing safe, it is a | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
question of attacking and defending. It's very simple when you put your | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
mind to it. It is not difficult to work out. But you go like a lemming, | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
following everybody else. You only need to win a couple of times and | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
you win 4 million quid. Racing drivers don't hurl themselves into | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
every corner. Tiger he might have left himself too far | :19:52. | :20:06. | |
back to challenge but you live to fight another day. | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
Molinari has had a tiring day. Five bogeys, finally made birdie at the | :20:18. | :20:26. | |
16th. He defending that position now, just one of those days that | :20:27. | :20:35. | |
happened to often. Now, Philip. Garcia has a great angle to get a | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
bad back left hole position. 275. Hello. That does not look good. No, | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
he's all right. Ten yards or so from there. Those white posts mark the | :20:53. | :21:03. | |
out of bounds. He's wriggling his right wrist and shoulder. I don't | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
know if he's pulled a shoulder. He looked at his right hand on the tee | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
when he stepped away as if it had a mind of its own and was trying to | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
take over. Fowler going at it from the other side. He's... Oh, no. It's | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
going to catch. That will be in Jim Furyk country, on the down | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
going to catch. That will be in Jim just inside the bunker. It could be | :21:34. | :21:33. | |
a nasty spot. Ryan Moore has steadied the ship | :21:34. | :21:47. | |
incredibly well on the back nine. Nothing went his way on the front | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
side. He's put in a good performance on the back nine but | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
side. He's put in a good performance that, no putts have been dropping | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
for him. He sit incredibly well, turned it around. Doesn't but like | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
he will go for the green. A bit of safety with this one. He needs to | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
get four here, that would be 34 home. After also some dramas on the | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
first nine holes. Over on the corner of the practice ground, the members | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
practice ground. He's not happy either. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
He is now. That was a canny one. They are good players, you're quite | :22:31. | :22:43. | |
right, they play shots from anywhere. Magic. See how he faded | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
that from there. Finally a bit of luck there. Two putts would put him | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
in 10th position so still in good position to have a great | :23:03. | :23:03. | |
Championship. They are on the final hole. McIlroy | :23:04. | :23:18. | |
has had two dropped strokes on this front nine. Dropped a shot at the | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
1st hole, he's had an eagle and three birdies thus far. | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
And on the other side, Tiger Woods at nine. | :23:33. | :23:46. | |
Tiger, 2-over today, four over for the Championship. That's better. | :23:47. | :24:01. | |
Tiger took seven at the 7th, six at the 2nd. Those are his two | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
destructive holes. Two bunkers down the left or what | :24:04. | :24:20. | |
the players are trying to avoid. Out of bounds is down the right but left | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
is definitely better. And important... But they are all | :24:24. | :24:49. | |
important, don't be silly, but you need a nice one here. Par-5, even if | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
you take five, it won't be the end of the world. It would be nice to | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
finish with four. It could be in the rough, it might come back, just. It | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
does, it clears the corner, ideal spot. | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
It's only 3:35pm. An early finish. The sun is beginning to come out. | :25:19. | :25:30. | |
Amazing, remarkable, it feels weird to finish now on the Open | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
Championship. I think they made the right decision. If they had waited | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
and there was thunder and lightning it could have been that we did not | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
finish today, it could have been a bad day to try to fit 27 holes in | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
tomorrow. I think they were right to do what they've done and nice to see | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
decisions made by that which work. I will second that, Peter. McIlroy and | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
Johnson have averaged more than 320 yards on the first two days on the | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
driving holes. Two of the longest hitters in golf. And both pretty | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
straight. Sergio doesn't look too bad from this position in his third | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
shot at the final hole. The club got caught in a tough the bit and the | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
ball yanked to the left. Rickie Fowler does have a shot. | :26:18. | :26:37. | |
Shouldn't be too difficult for him. He's been a bit fortunate, the same | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
land as Furyk who had an awkward one but it is played boldly and well. | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
Very well! CHEERING | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
APPLAUSE The crowd have taken the young | :26:56. | :27:08. | |
fellow very much to heart. They have enjoyed watching him play. Just | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
slipped a bit over the last four or five holes, dropped a stroke. But | :27:15. | :27:24. | |
he's picked one up here. Stops the bleeding a little bit. 68. Could so | :27:25. | :27:39. | |
easily have been 65, but 68, done and dusted. | :27:40. | :28:00. | |
Ryan Moore over on the right-hand side. He played that magical run the | :28:01. | :28:12. | |
bunker. -- run around the bunker. He's been so close with many putts | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
today but none have dropped. The Dolphy has played on this back nine, | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
he deserves something to happen. Maybe that will be an eagle here. -- | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
the golf he has played. He will have got the line to some | :28:25. | :28:37. | |
extent from Rickie Fowler's bunker shot which ran out quite nicely. | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
Never quite online but a good pace and putts and he will be happy with | :28:45. | :28:54. | |
that. A birdie four, a round of 73. He will have a pretty good lie in | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
tomorrow. I suppose they're back to more normal tomorrow if the forecast | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
is back to normal. Tiger on the other side of the course. Birdie | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
putts at his last... Well done Tiger. Three bad shots costing him | :29:13. | :29:22. | |
four shots. Apart from that, not bad stuff. Ryan Moore just getting rid | :29:23. | :29:40. | |
of this. Good putts. Birdie four. Gutsy effort. All you can do this | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
sort of course if it's on top of you is to keep plugging away and hope | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
things will change. And it looks like they did. Looking down on the | :29:50. | :30:01. | |
final hole as Garcia putts. Birdie opportunity just on the right-hand | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
side of the hole and is just too wide. Almost dead straight. A little | :30:06. | :30:12. | |
wiggle in it. Sergio finishes with a par-5. And a round of 69, which | :30:13. | :30:21. | |
might have been anything. One birdie and one dropped shots after going | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
out in 32. Dropped a shot at the 1st. APPLAUSE | :30:28. | :30:34. | |
A fairly good round but he really hasn't made any progress. But I feel | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
that they feel they will have had a good break in the weather. They | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
could have ended up with soaking wet waterproof clothes. Looks like a | :30:47. | :30:56. | |
three or four iron. Certainly no more. Going with that lofted fairway | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
wood. The distance they have two hit it, can't have more than 215 to the | :31:05. | :31:06. | |
front. 266 to the pin. Over the corner of the wind, left to | :31:07. | :31:23. | |
right, that's the wind, so it helps to start them to the green. A | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
comfortable wind. This will trickle over. APPLAUSE | :31:30. | :31:37. | |
In good shape. A fine shot. Molinari out in 39, he's had a birdie and one | :31:38. | :31:45. | |
dropped shot on the inward nine. Watch out, ball, here we come. | :31:46. | :31:59. | |
You can tell it's on line. Not bad. Told you so. CHEERING | :32:00. | :32:09. | |
Told you so. That is a gem, Told you so. CHEERING | :32:10. | :32:21. | |
don't come much... They don't come much sweeter than that. Now, Dustin | :32:22. | :32:34. | |
Johnson. He doesn't like that. It is not in McIlroy's class. And he's got | :32:35. | :32:41. | |
away with it. We will have a chip and run from there. Also a good | :32:42. | :32:46. | |
break, but it was a poor shot. Nearly a Ryan Moore. That was a | :32:47. | :32:54. | |
majestic iron, I like that. A fine drive. I did not mean to be picky at | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
the last hole, but I don't like silly shots, unfortunate shots and | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
expensive shots. I love to watch people doing things well and nobody | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
expensive shots. I love to watch does it better than this lad when | :33:09. | :33:09. | |
he's in flow. Finish does it better than this lad when | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
and I can go home happy. A four, rather. I would be disappointed. | :33:17. | :33:25. | |
I think that's what you would call a nice over -- a nice over -- N nice | :33:26. | :34:43. | |
ovation. Not too many golfers will get that sort of reception. I think | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
they know that when they're cheering Rory, they are cheering somebody who | :34:50. | :34:57. | |
went he's good, he's as good as anybody there's ever been, if not | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
better. There are flashes of great brilliance. You forget he's only 25. | :35:03. | :35:08. | |
There are one or two very wise things Boris Becker said when he won | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
Wimbledon at 17 and he was expected to answer questions about | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
everything. To do with tennis, the Germans, the war, and everything. | :35:18. | :35:25. | |
Some of his answers were wonderful. We expect too much of champions | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
sometimes. He's decided to putts it at the end of the day. You know who | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
is great at these sorts of shots, my old pal, Christy O'Connor, he had an | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
old golf club that was on a ladies length 9-iron. It might have been | :35:45. | :35:52. | |
made by Gillette because the edge of it was sharp as a rage. It was very | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
lofted, probably a 52 degrees wedge. -- sharp as a razor. He was | :35:59. | :36:08. | |
the best I've ever seen. You could bring whoever you like. He's elected | :36:09. | :36:16. | |
to putts this. It's a good effort to get down in two from here. Very easy | :36:17. | :36:23. | |
not to. If you short games have not fired on all cylinders. Ian Woosnam | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
always used a simple chip to stiff like them. Very good. Pretty good | :36:29. | :36:42. | |
speed, just wondering off a bit. Good effort. Good results. | :36:43. | :36:49. | |
Looked good at the start. Three dropped strokes on the outward nine. | :36:50. | :36:58. | |
Out in 37. A couple of birdies coming home. | :36:59. | :37:11. | |
The final game. Molinari. He's out in 39, started with three bogeys. | :37:12. | :37:44. | |
Very nice. Very nice indeed. Two cracking shots into the green. | :37:45. | :37:56. | |
Finishes with a four. APPLAUSE Ended up with a 75. Well, looked as | :37:57. | :38:05. | |
if he could be a lot worse at one time. | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
He will be glad that's over. A tough day at the office. Rory, just a | :38:12. | :38:24. | |
beautiful second shot. There have been many impressive things about | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
McIlroy this afternoon, not least the fact that when his lead was | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
Brett and he managed to rattle off six threes in the space of eight | :38:33. | :38:40. | |
holes. -- when his lead was threatened. This for a closing | :38:41. | :38:41. | |
eagle. Looks good. CHEERING Well, wasn't that lovely? Two Eagles | :38:42. | :39:18. | |
with a slight it in the middle. That's fantastic. When you come to | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
the end of the third day. Somebody should write a song about that. | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
Dustin polishes off before the end of day three. 71 for Dustin. And | :39:27. | :39:38. | |
Rory has certainly seen off a few Demons yesterday and today, but one | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
more day tomorrow. One more day tomorrow. Well done, well done. | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
more day tomorrow. One more day Terrific stuff. I hope you've | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
enjoyed some of that at home. I certainly have. | :39:53. | :39:59. | |
Tomorrow is another day. We'll be back to normal tomorrow. In terms of | :40:00. | :40:09. | |
the timings, that is. The weather forecast is better than today but | :40:10. | :40:13. | |
today has worked out remarkably well. They will go over the bridge, | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
down and across what they play as the 3rd hole, to the recorders | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
office, and check the card zooming sure everything is in order. We | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
don't want any hiccups. Historically we've had a few over the years, | :40:28. | :40:30. | |
people putting down the wrong score, signing for the wrong score, | :40:31. | :40:36. | |
disqualified. Sometimes some very expensive mistakes, but hopefully | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
those opportunities have been eliminated. Well done, Rory McIlroy. | :40:42. | :40:48. | |
Over the fairway he goes. A serious stride. Through the crowd. Turn to | :40:49. | :40:55. | |
the left. Just into the little grey shared | :40:56. | :41:09. | |
ahead. An office, how dare you call it a shared! -- shed. It just | :41:10. | :41:38. | |
wiggled a bit at the end. A couple of people finishing with sixes at | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
the end of their days, he finished with two threes. Makes a big | :41:45. | :41:54. | |
difference. STUDIO: A six shot lead for Rory McIlroy. The biggest lead | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
at the 54 hole stage since Tiger Woods 14 years ago at St Andrews who | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
also led by six shots before going on to win by a record margin. | :42:05. | :42:10. | |
McIlroy's nearest challenger, Rickie Fowler at ten shots under-par today. | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
It was very close for a while, jousting for the lead between nos | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
two. Sergio Garcia put together a good performance but Dustin | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
Johnson's challenge faded. 1-under for him today. Only 11 men within | :42:25. | :42:31. | |
ten shots of Rory's lead as we go to tomorrow. Graeme McDowell had a good | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
round today. A day off good scoring on a day that was eerily calm after | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
the expected apocalyptic storms. As Peter Alliss said, they did not | :42:44. | :42:50. | |
materialise. Rory McIlroy, there we go. It got close for a while, you | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
might recall in the early stages just after he teed Mac off at 11am, | :42:56. | :43:02. | |
he did not have it all his own way early on. | :43:03. | :43:08. | |
COMMENTARY MONTAGE: Here he comes, welcome, Rory. On the tee, from | :43:09. | :43:18. | |
Northern Ireland, Rory McIlroy. Rory's father put a bet on 20 years | :43:19. | :43:26. | |
ago that he would be an open winner by the age of 25. He is 25 right | :43:27. | :43:33. | |
now. This calculation, a big misjudgement. Rory McIlroy steadies | :43:34. | :43:42. | |
things. Yes, yes, yes, first figure of the day. 12-under, three ahead. | :43:43. | :43:52. | |
That is the shot of the day. Paying the price for missing the fairway | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
with that iron. Like that. Just like that. Yes, kept going. And there is | :43:58. | :44:08. | |
a huge bonus. That would have been seen if that had gone in. STUDIO: | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
Ken Brown and Mark James have joined me. If we were to see him win this | :44:15. | :44:22. | |
tomorrow he would be just the third man after Jack Nicklaus and Tiger | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
Woods to win three Majors by the age of 25. Pretty good company. He looks | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
like he belongs there right now. Some of his golf is remarkable. He | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
has teased as a little at the 1st hole, by pretending he's not quite | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
in control, but he looked relaxed, and when he did, easy. A grandstand | :44:43. | :44:53. | |
finish from Rory at the end but in general, it was very different | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
starting out three hours earlier than the leader would normally do on | :45:00. | :45:04. | |
a Saturday. I think the consensus is that it was the right call to have | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
this two four start. Without doubt, there would be nothing worse than | :45:10. | :45:12. | |
watching the rain coming down and note like it is a chance you take | :45:13. | :45:19. | |
and it has worked out well. It was a big advantage for Rory because he | :45:20. | :45:22. | |
did not have to wait, it is a horrible weight. The wind was down | :45:23. | :45:26. | |
and the cause was dumper which makes the fairways better and the course a | :45:27. | :45:34. | |
bit longer, so those ingredients will -- were perfect. And as he | :45:35. | :45:37. | |
walked out, the rain stopped. I think we should relive some of the | :45:38. | :45:44. | |
key moments because it was eventful. A 68, comprising three bogeys and | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
three birdies and two eagles and it's got twitchy at the 1st. The | :45:49. | :45:56. | |
four shot cushion was only to -- was only two. -- it got. He hit it well | :45:57. | :46:02. | |
to make a bogey. This is on the seventh. A tee shot at him in | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
trouble and he had to chip out. This was a very big par save. He played | :46:08. | :46:14. | |
it very sensibly, he got it onto the fairway, he got lucky. His putting | :46:15. | :46:19. | |
was really good today, he held yardage. This is the ninth. He seems | :46:20. | :46:27. | |
to have an affinity to the equipment. Right underneath that! | :46:28. | :46:36. | |
Again, that was a good par save. That was a brilliant par save. The | :46:37. | :46:44. | |
tee shot at the 12th. Slightly awry, and he was co-leader, having made at | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
bogey with Rickie Fowler he was charging. This must have put the | :46:50. | :46:55. | |
wind up Rory. Yes, particularly missing that putt. He had holed that | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
well all day and suddenly the pack were getting closer. At the 14th, | :47:01. | :47:06. | |
the putter was starting to work now here, Ken. Beck in the lead. Rickie | :47:07. | :47:12. | |
Fowler had slipped, at 13-under. -- back. That was ever tall. It was | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
next acted. -- that was a pivotal shot. You particularly loved these. | :47:20. | :47:24. | |
They were the making of the thing. These tee shots with Andres, miles | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
further than anybody else, splitting the fairways. -- these tee shots | :47:31. | :47:37. | |
were fantastic. And he followed up with a wonderful iron shot. Yes, | :47:38. | :47:43. | |
fantastic. The driving is incredible. When you hit it 330 | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
yards, you have to be very accurate to hit the middle of the fairway. | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
220 is not that difficult. This was the second shot into the par four, | :47:53. | :48:00. | |
17th, and he got into trouble. It landed him in a spot of bother and | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
he would drop a shot here, but still five shots in front. This is | :48:07. | :48:13. | |
exciting about Rory, he just chases Flag is coming he did not need to go | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
for that... He got a good five then. This tee shot at the 18th. -- he got | :48:19. | :48:25. | |
a good five in. No problem, perfect spot. Was a delight and those two | :48:26. | :48:32. | |
tee shots are world-class. -- it was. At 18, it was out of bounds and | :48:33. | :48:40. | |
nowhere near. This was almost saving the best till last! No one can do | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
that. He has flown it over the front bunker and it has come down, it was | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
unbelievable. You cannot do that with a wedge, most people. Perfect | :48:53. | :49:02. | |
putt. That finish has put him in such a strong position, 16-under | :49:03. | :49:07. | |
par. The last 16 holes, Rickie Fowler played them and there is a | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
big difference. We are looking at wire to wire winners, it denotes | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
winners who have won I'd been in front with no ties at the end of | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
every day. Only nine of them since 1883. -- by being in front. The last | :49:23. | :49:31. | |
person to do it was Tiger Woods at Saint Andrews and if he is to | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
achieve it, it is an extraordinary thing because of the pressures on | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
all four days. There is a lot of pressure and he felt it yesterday at | :49:40. | :49:42. | |
the start of the round and again today. He looked as though he was | :49:43. | :49:48. | |
not sure what to expect. Sometimes you feel uneasy. As Ken said, on the | :49:49. | :49:57. | |
1st hole, not great. It took him a while to get warmed up and he did | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
not flow until late in the round but it shows how much he has got when it | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
takes you that long to get going and, what did he shoots? 68. Yes. -- | :50:07. | :50:16. | |
he shoots. It was a tale of two 25-year-olds, Rickie Fowler and Rory | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
McIlroy were in the same Championship. They have been stars | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
in waiting. Rickie Fowler was up for it and he has put together great | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
rounds. Yes, he seems to really enjoyed links golf. I first saw him | :50:35. | :50:40. | |
for Royal Saint George's and he has got the shots but he enjoys playing | :50:41. | :50:43. | |
them and that is one think you have to do. To be able to do it. -- one | :50:44. | :50:51. | |
thing. Unlucky how he finished, I felt sorry for him, that mistake at | :50:52. | :50:58. | |
the 16th was unlucky. But he played delightful shots. He had to distance | :50:59. | :51:01. | |
control down to a fine art in the early stages. -- his distance | :51:02. | :51:09. | |
control. In the early stages, he was overshooting. Today, he seemed on | :51:10. | :51:12. | |
it. Sometimes that is the look of the draw. That does happen. Today, | :51:13. | :51:19. | |
there was no wind and everything was fairly predictable and he can shape | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
the ball both ways so it is a day you should get your club is right. | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
If you do not get them right today, something is wrong with your game. | :51:29. | :51:34. | |
Let's remind ourselves of his day, it was worth watching. He was right | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
into it from the start. It was important to get off to a flying | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
start. Rickie Fowler. If you get a slow start in a tournament like | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
this... At the 1st hole is tough and it is difficult to get it back. A | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
birdie, birdie start. And it continued. And the putter was so | :51:55. | :52:00. | |
hot. He was holding everything. Yes, a lot of shots will hold. These | :52:01. | :52:08. | |
are good greens but when you get a nice layer of moisture on them, it | :52:09. | :52:12. | |
seems to hold the ball straighter and they do not wonder around when | :52:13. | :52:20. | |
it gets dry. -- wonder. He made full use of the conditions. He has had a | :52:21. | :52:26. | |
good run of form because in Majors, a couple of times, he is the only | :52:27. | :52:30. | |
player with top five finishes in the Masters and the US Open. He was in a | :52:31. | :52:36. | |
top ten position at Royal Aberdeen last week, so he has the confidence | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
for the major Championships. Last week at Royal Aberdeen, that was an | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
advantage playing the links golf. We had eight birdies today. That slack | :52:46. | :52:52. | |
finish has put him a little behind. But a lovely smooth/ and he reads | :52:53. | :53:02. | |
the greens well. -- smooth hit. Mick Faldo would hit putt after putt on | :53:03. | :53:08. | |
these, not everybody finds it this easy -- mixed folder. If you have | :53:09. | :53:13. | |
had a breakthrough like he did three years ago, does that carry through? | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
To a large extent, if you can deal with certain conditions, that is | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
some think you do not think much about. If you play well, you will do | :53:22. | :53:28. | |
OK. That was at 16 when he hit it into the bunker. He knows he can | :53:29. | :53:31. | |
play links golf and he just has to start swinging well. In the last | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
couple of holes, the Stardust seems to run out. It did | :53:37. | :53:43. | |
couple of holes, the Stardust seems pressure can do. You can feel you | :53:44. | :53:45. | |
are getting closer to winning a major Championship, he finished | :53:46. | :53:50. | |
second in the US Open and fifth in the Masters, you knows he can | :53:51. | :53:52. | |
second in the US Open and fifth in This was the shot of | :53:53. | :53:53. | |
second in the US Open and fifth in knows. He had to get | :53:54. | :54:01. | |
second in the US Open and fifth in distance. Rickie Fowler | :54:02. | :54:04. | |
second in the US Open and fifth in of 68, less eventful | :54:05. | :54:05. | |
second in the US Open and fifth in Rory Mclroy, but what chances do you | :54:06. | :54:11. | |
give him if he can string together a hot run tomorrow? I cannot remember | :54:12. | :54:21. | |
the score is exactly but it is not as if he will have played seven | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
holes to put him under pressure when Rory gets out. There are 11 guys | :54:26. | :54:31. | |
within nine shots, I think the five guys. So they are a long way back as | :54:32. | :54:36. | |
a group. Sometimes you have a five shot lead over ten players and | :54:37. | :54:41. | |
somebody will shoot 65 but they are spread out and I do not see them | :54:42. | :54:45. | |
catching. Even if Rory has a dodgy start, I think he will just carry | :54:46. | :54:53. | |
on. I think he will win easily tomorrow. I think Rickie Fowler | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
might have something to say about that come he is with Russell. | :54:58. | :55:04. | |
Well played again and congratulations particularly on a | :55:05. | :55:07. | |
stunning opening 13 holes, you got a share of the lead, what were you | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
thinking? Probably not a lot, just going through the motions and making | :55:14. | :55:16. | |
sure I was going through the process on each shot. I was prepared to hit | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
every shot and I did just that. A couple of loose swings, one approach | :55:22. | :55:28. | |
shot on 17. Three swings that cost me coming in. Definitely room for | :55:29. | :55:34. | |
improvement on the home stretch tomorrow. It goes to show how | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
difficult it is to play the level you were over 18 holes at any major | :55:40. | :55:45. | |
Championship. There is definitely a fine line and so much can happen so | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
quickly. If you are not hitting your line, if you are just a little out, | :55:50. | :55:57. | |
it can result in a bad score. Things have turned around quickly with | :55:58. | :56:03. | |
Rory's finish, how do you feel about your chances, six-pack? Trying to | :56:04. | :56:11. | |
put myself into a good position. If I can go out and get off to a solid | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
start tomorrow, put pressure on Rory, still a lot of golf to be | :56:16. | :56:20. | |
played. Is it an advantage to be playing in the same group as Rory | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
tomorrow? Definitely. Being alongside him, no matter what, we | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
will have a good time tomorrow. We are good friends. If I can get off | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
to a solid start and put pressure on him and make him earn it, we will | :56:36. | :56:41. | |
see if we can get ourselves in the mix. | :56:42. | :56:41. | |
him and make him earn it, we will see if we can get ourselves Good | :56:42. | :56:44. | |
luck. He will be out with Rory tomorrow. | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
And what is significant is that in his two professional wins, he has | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
beaten Rory to those titles on both occasions. He will cling to that! | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
Claimed in the cirque sack with the right word. -- Kling is exactly the | :56:59. | :57:04. | |
right word. Sergio Garcia was a factor here at words of -- eight | :57:05. | :57:13. | |
years ago. He eventually shot a 74. This is his rounds today. He would | :57:14. | :57:19. | |
also be a factor from the start. -- his round. A bogey at the 1st. | :57:20. | :57:27. | |
Bumper-to-bumper the Sergio at the start. So we dropped one. But he | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
picked it up at the 2nd, Ken. That is what you need to do, a good bogey | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
at the 1st. Sergio is a confidence player to get two put in on the | :57:38. | :57:43. | |
first and the second was a good start -- two pots. A birdie at the | :57:44. | :57:51. | |
5th to take him to 7-under. It is lovely to see Sergio enjoying this | :57:52. | :57:56. | |
Championship. He has had his girlfriend here and he seems happy | :57:57. | :57:59. | |
up on and off the golf course and it is showing. He is relaxed and it is | :58:00. | :58:06. | |
showing -- he seems happier. This is a nice high draw. This tee shot, | :58:07. | :58:12. | |
back-to-back, this was a gem. At number nine. It was a perfect shape | :58:13. | :58:22. | |
and it was an exquisite eye on. -- iron. You know you have -- you know | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
you have your ball under control. 10-under at the 16th. He was | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
certainly challenging at this point. A bogey at the 17th would see him | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
finish at 9-under par alongside Dustin Johnson in a round of 69. So | :58:41. | :58:49. | |
Sergio is going to be giving chase. He seems to be a very popular | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
figure. He has had a lot of support from the galleries all week. Yes, I | :58:55. | :58:59. | |
do not know why, I think they are supporting everybody, they are | :59:00. | :59:05. | |
enjoying the golf. They are giving everyone a good reception. Sergio | :59:06. | :59:10. | |
has been around a long time and when you have been around as long as he | :59:11. | :59:15. | |
has, people start to get to know you and they have seen you be happy. I | :59:16. | :59:22. | |
feel they know you more and they put up with the occasional scowl because | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
they know they will get at smile -- a smile and a good shot, and people | :59:28. | :59:32. | |
have warmed to him. He is a personality and sometimes you think, | :59:33. | :59:36. | |
that is not right, and other times, you have to admire him. People can | :59:37. | :59:41. | |
connect with him. I am sure he is smiling, he is with Russell. | :59:42. | :59:47. | |
Well played again, you are moving got the leaderboard, 69 today. How | :59:48. | :59:51. | |
are you reflecting on that? -- moving up. Every time you shoot | :59:52. | :59:57. | |
under par, in a major, it is always good. Obviously, a little | :59:58. | :00:04. | |
disappointed the way I played the last two holes. A couple of loose | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
shots cost me. But other than that, I have played quite solid for most | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
of the day. The conditions were quite good. A little bit of rain and | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
a little breeze. The course was playing very nicely. I would love to | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
have seen who was in front. I would love to score a bit better today, | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
but unfortunately, I was not able to. Can you catch him? Yes, you | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
never know! We will see what day comes tomorrow. It is never easy | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
being in that position. He has done it before and he is a great player. | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
I would not expect it to be easy, but you never know. A couple of bad | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
holes and you start doubting yourself and anything can happen. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Your job is to put as much pressure on him as you can. A dangerous | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
strategy here. You still have to be comfortable with what you do. You | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
cannot just go out and attack everything. Usually you will not hit | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
good shots that way. You have to see where you really want to attack, | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
where you feel comfortable attacking, and try to do it as well | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
as possible. More great entertainment for everybody today, | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
thank you, Sergio. An exhibition of links golf from | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Sergio and Rory, he is on his way to the studio so stay with us. If you | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
want to play links golf like Rick, perhaps you should speak to the | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
coached to the stars David let at who has been chatting to Don Walker | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
-- David Leadbetter. Glorious weather and lovely people | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
including David, good morning. How are you? Lovely day. On a day like | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
this, you have coached some of the great swings, how important is it | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
what goes on in hind -- between the ears? The green will be receptive, | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
there is no wind, so keep the ball out of the rough. It will be a | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
tandem effort with your caddy who plays an important roll keeping the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
club strike, making sure you have gloves, towels, except. That will be | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
key. These guys are experienced and they have played in weather like | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
this and they would only stop if you could not play the greens because of | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
too much water or lightning. The could not play the greens because of | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
course would play easier than it did yesterday because the wind is down. | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
A word on Bob Torrance, another of the great | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
A word on Bob Torrance, another of He was a great character and a | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
pioneer and he was out here before I was working with players. Sam was | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
his first student. He was well loved out here and there are so many | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
his first student. He was well loved stories about him, he will really be | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
missed. I really enjoyed running into him a couple of times a year | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
and chatting, he was very knowledgeable about the golf. I know | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
a lot of players will miss him. He has had a big influence on them. A | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
very sad loss and he and you and many others will save today the key | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
is to keep out of the long, wet rough. So if I could hand you a | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
2-iron. I want you to show was, a lot of people may play in these | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
conditions, how do you make sure you keep it on the short stuff? Most | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
conditions, how do you make sure you people would not be using at 2-iron, | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
-- a 2-iron, but the key is, any time the | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
-- a 2-iron, but the key is, any within yourself. A lot of players | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
try to make their normal golf swing as if it was 80 degrees. The key... | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
Down on the club. as if it was 80 degrees. The key... | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
up. And you make a three quarters type swing. You will see a lot of | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
players not hitting full shots but swinging like that. Keeping control. | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
Grip it down and put the ball further down and make this swing. It | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
is about balance. If players can hold their finish here, hold that | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
position, they have done a good job. Most players are a little | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
off-balance. When the weather is not nice like today, swing within | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
yourself, nice and easy. When it is breezy, swing easy, the old saying. | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
Make that my swing and just hold your finish. Always great to talk to | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Make that my swing and just hold you. And tell your friends | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
Make that my swing and just hold had a lesson from David! | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
Rory McIlroy has joined us, what about that finish? Yes, it was | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
needed. Rickie Fowler was getting a little close. I was just waiting for | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
those holes because I knew if I could hit a couple of good drives on | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
16 and 18, I would have a good chance for a birdie. I did not | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
expect to make two Eagles but I will take it. A six shot lead, the | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
loggers -- the largest in the Championship since Tiger in 2,000. | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
How comfortable is that, you experienced it at the US open a | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
couple of years ago? It is goodbye have had this experience before. I | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
was leading by four going into the Masters and I let that slip. I did | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
not make the same mistake again at the Congressional. It is good to | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
have that experience and hopefully some of that experience, I can take | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
that into tomorrow. Were you actively drawing upon that today? | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
There were clearly a lot of changes in your routine. You did not have | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
that anxious wait until 2:30pm, was that a positive? It was, it felt | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
like I got off the course last night after seven o'clock and it felt like | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
I was straight out again this morning. You did not have much time | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
to think about it and to dwell on your lead. It was not a bad thing. | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
Let's go back, you had a four shot cushion and within the 1st hole, it | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
was halved with the attentions of Dustin Johnson -- with the | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
attentions of Dustin Johnson. I did not get off to the best start | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
yesterday but the 5th hole is a big hole on the front line, trying to | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
birdie that. It was not a great tee shot on seven here. I got lucky that | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
I carried the course. That was it. It was huge momentum. The big save | :06:59. | :07:08. | |
on seven was massive. That was a big moment. Yes, it was. It kept my | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
question and Dustin had been playing well. The same thing at the 9th. I | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
apologise to the cameraman, I hit him on the arm! It was another good | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
par save, aim made -- I made a couple of those today and I needed | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
to. Rickie Fowler was only one behind as you came to the 12th and | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
the tee shot compromised you again. You missed a shot and Rickie Fowler | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
is by this point co-leader. Yes, I was tied for the lead going on to 13 | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
and I knew it was a big leaderboard. Previous to this, I made a good putt | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
and that was good momentum. That was a bonus to hit that on 14. Back in | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
the lead here, on the 16th. The guys were talking about the length of the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
tee and how big a factor that has been. It has been an advantage to | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
get the drive right on the par fives. To hit irons into some of | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
these greens. It gives me a big advantage over some of the field. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
This would give you a five shot lead. I am sure you are breathing | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
more easily! Yes, it was nice to restore some of that question. I saw | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
that Rickie Fowler was not playing too well in front. But links golf | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
can always bite you and it did here, this was a tricky shack -- this was | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
a tricky second followed by a poor third. It was set up by the second | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
shot, it was not a good decision, I was trying to aim it left of the pin | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
and I struggled. The same shot on the ninth. But I made a good five in | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
the end. What confidence do you feel on the tee when you can drive these | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
distances? I was waiting for these two holes and I knew if I could hit | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
two drives, I could take advantage. These two shots on the 18th and the | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
second shot into the green were the best shots I hit today. You saved | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
your best till last. I wanted to carry it over that bunker, which I | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
did. It set me up nicely for another great finish. It was a 5-iron. How | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
far did you carry it? 220. This was a relatively easy putt. Just on the | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
right line. It fed nicely into the hole. It was nice to be able to | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
extend the lead. Going up today with a four shot lead, to extend that to | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
six, I could not have asked for more. It was pretty eventful. There | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
were no four is -- falls on the line! -- four shots. I am proud of | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
how I stayed patient. You will be outward Rickie Fowler. You know each | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
other very well and you got to know one another at the Walker cup in | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
2007. We have known each other for a long time and we on our neighbours | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
in Florida. -- we on our neighbours. I see him practising a | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
bit and I got to know him well so it will be a comfortable grouping -- we | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
are neighbours. Hopefully we both will play well tomorrow. It would be | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
nice to keep that advantage I have. What is the routine this evening? I | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
will do some more media, I will go to the house I have rented, I will | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
go to the gymnasium and I will take it easy. I have watched some movies | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
the last couple of nights, I will have some dinner and I will get some | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
sleep. The work is never done, we wish you all the best and sleep well | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
on that sick shot cushion. I do not know -- six shot cushion. I do not | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
know if Rory knows this area well, we have been taking an aerial Tour. | :11:25. | :11:39. | |
The first thing you notice looking down is how much greener the course | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
is than it was in 2006 when it was brown and yellow and burned, so it | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
has a different feel. 1869, the club was founded, two years later it was | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
given its Royal name, Royal Liverpool. It is a flat course and | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
it was built on the site of an old racecourse. The 1st hole is played | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
by the members and the 1st hole for the professionals was the finishing | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
straight of the original racecourse. 1862, the first national | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
racecourse, 1885, the first amateur Championship. A match was played | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
here between Great Britain and Ireland and the United States and | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
that became the Walker cup. Arnold Masi became the first continental | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
winner of the Open here and in celebration he meant as daughter | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Hoylake, lucky girl. -- he named. Royal Liverpool sits on the corner | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
of the Wirral. At the mouth of the Dee Estuary, and the Mersey on the | :12:48. | :13:01. | |
other side. The name the Wirral is the legacy of the old landscape. In | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
the mouth of the Dee Estuary you have this island. And its close | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
neighbours. They are tidal islands and people like to walk out of | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
there, there are big tides in this part of the world. He pulled walk | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
out at low tide and they get back before the sea comes back in. It has | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
been inhabited over the centuries. Medieval monks used to live on the | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
island. There are plenty of buildings. It is no longer | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
inhabited, there are just a couple of buildings and a lot of birds. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
Talking about the origin of names, Hoylake comes from a natural are -- | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
a natural harbour, a channel which gave safe anchorage to ships to | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
large to sail down the river and it was a major port. William of Orange | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
set off from Hoylake and he set off to Ireland for his battles in 1690. | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
The legacy of that being Gay major harbour is there were four | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
lighthouses -- a major. This was the oldest brick lighthouse in Britain, | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
1763, it is still standing. And this is part of a private residence and | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
it gives you an idea of how important this was to shipping. The | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
great bit of links land in Britain, in clusters, the Ayrshire coast, the | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
Fife coast, East Lothian and this. Formby, West Lancashire, Birkdale, | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
up to Royal Liverpool. This is a sovereign outpost of that. -- seven. | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
It goes up many miles of the coast of England. Wallasey golf course | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
deserves a mention. It is whether point-scoring process began. -- were | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
there. It was first used in competition at Wallasey and since | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
then, people had been scoring 40 points and insisting they just got | :15:15. | :15:15. | |
lucky! the north-east. There were over | :15:16. | :15:27. | |
200,000 for the week in 2006. the north-east. There were over | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
Saint Andrews gets more of a crowd than Hoylake. Manchester is just | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Saint Andrews gets more of a crowd hour away. They will come flooding | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
in from all over the North West and beyond to the open. Royal Liverpool | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
lies in a busy but beautiful part of the Isles. The great golf writer | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
Bernard Darwin the Isles. The great golf writer | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
description, he said the Isles. The great golf writer | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
of mighty champions. The grand setting for an Open Championship. | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
STUDIO: A wonderful stretch of golf course in this stretch of the world | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
and some wonderful courses. The history of the place is remarkable | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
and we've had some very storeyed winners over the years. Fred Daly, | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
Arnold Massey, the first man from Ireland to | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
Arnold Massey, the first man from be another one tomorrow Costa it is | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
now hailing so the R A have made the right decision. It is starting | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
to block it down. The heavens have opened but at least play has | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
finished. Never have we held the R A in higher regard. What do we think | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
of this venue? It was 1967 and then we had a long time until Matt 2006 | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
before we came back. It has it held its own? It is an interesting | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
course. If you account of the clubhouse -- if you look out of the | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
clubhouse it doesn't look very much, but as a player, it is a very | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
strategic course. There are the opportunities to attack, like Rory | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
has done a times, and defend. It is a wonderful iron course. The | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
blueprint for success has foxed them. Everybody talking about two | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
irons, playing chess, but we have seen Rory, overpowering has worked | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
for him especially at the long par fives. He has overpowered it to a | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
degree, taking bunkers out of play. But in doing that he's hit the | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
driver to some pretty small targets which is not easy. I think things | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
have moved on and guys like Rory are now playing so well that they are | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
overpowering courses which are set up perfectly well. We see other guys | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
take drivers of holes like one, 17, 16 and 18 even, and they hit it all | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
over the place. But Rory keeps hitting it down the middle, flying | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
it 310. It is a different game. You cannot play chess against someone | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
with a machine gun. It is a bit like that. He has done so well on the par | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
fives, seven birdies and a couple of eagles. But you have to take a | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
chance and hit good shots. If you spread it around and hit it in the | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
thick stuff you will drop down. You have to play good golf. The | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
technology is there for the players with ability to hit longer off the | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
tee and overpower these courses, but we saw in 2006 it was not possible. | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Depending on weather conditions in my not be possible at other venues | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
going forward but you give away and you take some. Going back to Roberto | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
di Vincenzo's time, I would say it was about 250 yards, but it was a | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
smaller ball. The average driver is about 295 now. In 19 six to seven, | :19:11. | :19:20. | |
if you want is to compare, it would have to be 9000 yards. You have to | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
test the players. This area is surrounded by houses and the sea. | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
The course cannot expand so you have to do it other ways. Thick rough is | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
a rather Bland and ugly hazard as hazard as far as I'm concerned. This | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
rain will be softening the course. Rory will be perfectly comfortable. | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
The course played fine today. It is a good test as it is. You can make | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
it tougher by putting in more bunkers or growing the rough, but it | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
is actually a perfect test and the best players are doing well. This | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
course is a par 72 and a number of the open venues have been reduced to | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
a par 70. If you made a couple of the holes notional par four is, you | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
could knock six shots off the current par. It is a great test. You | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
should have some reachable par fives so there is a bit of give and take. | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
Often on Championship courses it is just take, take, take and their art | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
of par fives all over the place. I think this is great, tough and good | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
to watch. Could this be something we see again going forward, now it has | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
happened, these two tees? I think it is a one-off. What time is it in | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
America just now? There could be a problem with the audience in the | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
Atlantic. It was due to finish around 7pm this evening. But we have | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
a bit of time in hand. What a contrast as it comes tumbling down | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
from the heavens behind us, to events 12 months ago when we were up | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
in East Lothian on the Costa Del Muirfield. It was a fantastic | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
Championship and we will relive some moments from there. The weather was | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
wonderful and it was Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez in the lead going into | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
the weekend who had a chasing pack including the likes of Lee Westwood, | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson. Do you remember this? VOICEOVER | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
Some golfers are successful. Others are popular. The leader going into | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
the third round of the Open Championship is both. People love to | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
see a person who is a nonconformist and totally at peace with it. The | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
stretching routine is bizarre but there is a coolness about him | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
because he's so himself. It is a freedom and liberation that I think | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
we would all like to have in our own lives. It is so hard to attain but | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
he has it. The Spaniard's free round loosening ritual is a familiar sight | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
on Rangers around the world now. What flexibility. Joining him in as | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
in the final pairing was an admiring Henrik Stenson. -- joining Jimenez. | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
The crowds really like him. He's solid tee to green. He keeps his | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
shots under control. On the demanding 1st hole, he did just | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
that, making a stress-free par. He plays a good game. He's not a | :22:48. | :23:00. | |
poppy any more either will stop but Stenson will stumble. They fixed him | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
of nerves. -- a victim of nerves. I was just trying to enjoy the | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
experience as much as playing well. I think I was definitely tents in | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
the beginning. After the start, dropped a couple early, but then got | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
back into the rhythm. But on Saturday there was no doubting which | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
group was the centre of attention. It featured the world number one | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
playing alongside the home favourite. Obviously there is a lot | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
more people watching. I get on well with Tiger so it is quite relaxing. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
I think we had quite an enjoyable day, both playing well. When Tiger | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
birdied the second and Westwood bogeyed the third, the American led | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
the Championship. A pattern for a day of continuing shifts in fortune | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
had been set. On the fourth, neither player found the green. Westwood | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
escape from heavy rough to give himself a chance at par. | :24:03. | :24:12. | |
But the putts of Woods was lengthier. After Tiger's first bogey | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
of the day, Westwood's putting technique, recently changed subtly | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
by Ian Baker-Finch, was put to the test. There were times when Lee | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
Westwood looked like he was strangling the club during his | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
putting. Ian Baker-Finch got into relax a lot more. Swing much more | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
loose from his body and everything suddenly looked good. | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
You liked as putts going in and July to make putts, not just for the | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
purpose of making birdies, but also just keep momentum going. -- and you | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
like to make. Westwood almost reach the green on the | :25:07. | :25:25. | |
Tiger also decided to attack. A gamble that came almost agonisingly | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
close to paying off. An aggrieved Woods could only manage par. | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
Westwood, though, had a higher goal. It was a fairly obvious one with the | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
big ridge just to the right of the hole, so I thought I would feed it | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
at 15 feet, it should gather up towards the hole. As I hit the | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
putts, the caddy walked out to the right-hand side. Usually | :25:58. | :25:58. | |
putts, the caddy walked out to the do that it means it's online. It | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
was, for a thrilling eagle three. That was probably the loudest cheer | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
I heard all week. If it was, That was probably the loudest cheer | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
second loudest came when Westwood birdied the seventh. Four holes | :26:19. | :26:30. | |
after trailing Tiger he now lead the Championship by three. While | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
Westwood prospered, Jimenez made three early bogeys. And it could | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
have been worse but for a miraculous escape from the fourth. I'd put my | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
late on the bank. -- put my leg on the bank. | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
Par was saved but the 49-year-old had begun to slip off the pace. | :26:58. | :27:07. | |
Having been in command, Westwood also ran into trouble. | :27:08. | :27:21. | |
Back-to-back bogeys, together with Tiger's birdie at the 9th meant they | :27:22. | :27:30. | |
were all swear again. -- all square again. | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
On a day when scores in the 60s were scarce, Hunter Mahan made | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
significant strides with a 68 to be 1-under and in contention. But the | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
round of Phil Mickelson was fuelled more by grit than genius. The high | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
point was his birdie at 12. 12 was really the last good birdie up until | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
coming in. I felt that was a necessary birdie because the | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
remaining six holes were so tough. Mickelson's assessment was more | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
accurate than his tee shot at 13. It led to three late bogeys and a | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
disappointing 72. That finish on Saturday could have been a blessing | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
in disguise because it made him more determined heading to the last round | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
because I don't think you finish that round the way he wanted to. | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
Last year's runner-up did. Under the radar for most of the week, Adam | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
Scott climbed the leaderboard with a 70. Possible redemption beckoned. | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
The Tiger-Westwood match, a game that came to the boil on a crucial | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
stretch. At 2-under, Woods was eyeing a birdie on 16. And when | :28:50. | :28:58. | |
Westwood's tee shot found the long grass, it was advantage Tiger. | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
Westwood's second only to the crisis. -- only deepened the crisis. | :29:03. | :29:16. | |
I was left in eight off spot. -- I was left in a tough spot. At 16 Lee | :29:17. | :29:25. | |
was in a position to lose the Championship, make a big number, | :29:26. | :29:27. | |
because the ball could have gone anywhere from where he was. | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
I decided in the end to putts it. It was a difficult putts, and it | :29:35. | :29:44. | |
bounced as well before it got to the green which took pace off it. With | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
his rivals staring at a double bogey, Tiger looked set to pounce. | :29:51. | :29:59. | |
Countless key putts have bade his wishes, but this one taunted Woods | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
and gave a newly confident Westwood new confidence. -- have okayed his | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
wishes. -- have the the allegiance of the crowd was | :30:10. | :30:36. | |
split and so was the 17th fairway by Tiger's tee shot. But then came a | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
cardinal error. The dreaded cross bunkers intervened. Tiger was fully | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
aware of the consequences. It had been a quest for birdie was | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
transformed into a bogey. With his son, Sam watching, West -- | :30:53. | :31:05. | |
Westwood's shot was more straightforward. When you can hear | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
everybody shouting your name, come on, and a mother voice shouting, | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
come on, dad. -- and another voice. he's not going to give it back. | :31:14. | :31:59. | |
Maybe Tiger wouldn't agree but it had been a super Saturday. Woods | :32:00. | :32:07. | |
trailed by two, Mickelson by five, Westwood let the opening. His | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
elusive breakthrough win in a major was tantalisingly close. The final | :32:12. | :32:20. | |
day of the 2013 Open Championship. The leader was up and about early. I | :32:21. | :32:27. | |
had to be woken up by Mr Robson early every morning, announcing the | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
first tee time, it was unusual because I was staying right next to | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
that first tee. A lovely house and very convenient. I did not use the | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
locker room all week. From Sweden, Henrik Stenson. Westwood cabbie | :32:40. | :32:48. | |
experience but Stenson drew on experience. I was staying with Nick | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
Faldo all week. We had a chat over breakfast. He told me about the nice | :32:55. | :33:00. | |
putts I'd made. I made a great one on the first, straight in. I | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
thought, all right, here we go. That's what he was talking about | :33:06. | :33:09. | |
over breakfast. Another birdie arrived on the third. The Swede | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
found himself just two shots off the lead. It was a great start and I was | :33:15. | :33:25. | |
right up in the mix. Before the last group went out the silver medal for | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
leading amateur was convincingly won by Matt Fitzpatrick who beat Jimmy | :33:31. | :33:38. | |
Mullen by five shots. The teenager from Sheffield enjoyed a day he will | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
never forget. An established star was hoping for the same. Expectation | :33:46. | :33:52. | |
was immense but the home favourite refused to be burdened. It is not | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
really any different to leading any other tournament. It is still a 54 | :33:59. | :34:05. | |
hole lead in a 72 hole competition. Still a long way to go. The final | :34:06. | :34:12. | |
day is all in the mind. Getting comfortable, getting off to a good | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
start. A lot of it is waged in the mind. | :34:19. | :34:27. | |
I ran the one at the 1st close for birdie. I was pleased with the way | :34:28. | :34:33. | |
things started. The same could not be said of Westwood's playing | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
partner, Hunter Mahan, he bogeyed the second and fell three adrift. A | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
dropped shot at the 3rd meant Ian Poulter was nine shots behind, but | :34:47. | :34:49. | |
his renowned tenacity then shone through. I birdied five. Ie gold | :34:50. | :34:58. | |
nine. That fired me up, which gets me on a roll. -- I eagled nine. So | :34:59. | :35:08. | |
now, all of a sudden, I'm not nine back, I'm six back. All of a sudden | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
things can change pretty quickly. A fantastic 35 putt on ten off the | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
front of the green with another grandstand right behind the green. | :35:18. | :35:31. | |
They fire me up, I get fired up. Holed a lovely 15 footer on the | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
next. I've got a huge stand to my right hand side as I hole my putt. | :35:37. | :35:43. | |
They go crazy. Things are starting to happen now and I'm putting myself | :35:44. | :35:50. | |
in a nice position. I hit seven I hit 7-iron off the 12 tee. That went | :35:51. | :36:00. | |
an enormous distance down the hole. Hit it to within 15 feet and again, | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
there was another grandstand. They went nuts and I went nuts, another | :36:07. | :36:16. | |
15 footer. Out of the pack, a genuine contender had emerged. At | :36:17. | :36:21. | |
that point right there I felt I was writing the golf tournament and had | :36:22. | :36:28. | |
a great chance. In marked contrast, Tiger's game was not in sync. The | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
world number one was guilty of three damaging early bogeys. While his | :36:34. | :36:39. | |
great rival was toiling, Phil Mickelson's vibe was positive. I had | :36:40. | :36:49. | |
a great feeling on Sunday. When I birdied five all I was trying to do | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
was par six, seven, eight, because if I could birdie there I could | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
eagle therefore the tournament. Which is what I did. At the 10th, | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
Mickelson made his first mistake of the day. The degree of momentum was | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
surrendered. It was a tough bogey because I got to the score I wanted | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
and the next hole, I came back and lost it with a bogey. Westwood | :37:16. | :37:19. | |
encountered trouble on lost it with a bogey. Westwood | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
two holes later was the chance to strike back. | :37:24. | :37:36. | |
His birdie inspired the loudest cheer of the day so far. Leading by | :37:37. | :37:46. | |
three, his elusive first major appeared a little closer. Tiger was | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
becoming detached but Poulter and Stenson were a threatening presence. | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
becoming detached but Poulter and Even more so when Stenson birdied at | :37:56. | :38:03. | |
nine. That was the one time I felt like... I've got to make this one. I | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
really did. I looked up at the board and saw I was in pretty close | :38:10. | :38:11. | |
contact walking down ten. Hit a great shot in there and left | :38:12. | :38:27. | |
myself an eight footer for birdie. Unfortunately the putt lipped out. | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
One of those key moments. It would have looked different if I made that | :38:34. | :38:42. | |
at ten. Stenson remained 1-under. Adam Scott suffered a poor start | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
until his round ignited with a string of birdies from the seventh. | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
I was not really where I wanted to be. Good things would have to happen | :38:54. | :39:00. | |
to get in with a chance. It was not necessarily a turning point but | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
eight was a bonus. To role that across the green, it gave me the | :39:04. | :39:13. | |
sense of it could happen now. Nine is obviously a great opportunity for | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
birdie. I got very conservative with the putt for eagle, but I felt I did | :39:20. | :39:24. | |
not have to be a hero at nine. It was a putt that could run away from | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
me. To finish the front nine and turn on the par was a big difference | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
from turning it over-par. Those chasing found their range and | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
pressure mounted on Westwood who woefully misjudged his tee shot at | :39:42. | :39:48. | |
seven. I was stuck between clubs a bit. Was on May nine, which was | :39:49. | :39:57. | |
never enough club in hindsight. -- I was stuck on nine. The unravelling | :39:58. | :40:12. | |
process began. Another shot dropped, and in the midst of a crisis. I | :40:13. | :40:18. | |
figured at some point during the final round things would get | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
testing. They normally do. It is not normally plain sailing. But you just | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
try to regroup and get on with the job. Many of his pursuers had gained | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
ground on the ninth but Westwood's ball striking let him down. What an | :40:33. | :40:40. | |
irony that one of the best iron players would start to struggle with | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
that part of the game when he needed it most. While that happened, I can | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
me put it down to the pressure. -- why that happened. As if to rub salt | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
in his wounds, his playing partner Hunter Mahan hit an outstanding | :40:56. | :40:58. | |
approach to nine. The American made an eagle and | :40:59. | :41:11. | |
turned level par for the Championship. Emotions soared and | :41:12. | :41:21. | |
crashed. Suddenly three men were tied for the lead and Mickelson, | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
lurking just off the pace, was about to engage in brilliance on the | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
dangerous 13th. It was a feast or famine hole. That | :41:29. | :41:45. | |
5-iron I hit was my best shot of the week. It put more pressure on the | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
putt because I now have the best opportunity to get back the shot I | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
lost on ten. This putt would make the round go either way. That's | :41:54. | :42:02. | |
birdie on 13 felt important. I can't say enough for how huge that was in | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
terms of his momentum. It psychologically in a great place. | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
The American's mind was strong, his putter was hot, and his confidence | :42:13. | :42:19. | |
rose at 14. You have to make some of these putts at that distance. Some | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
are tough when a cross break and downhill, but this one was uphill | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
with very little break. This was one I really needed to make. CHEERING | :42:29. | :42:41. | |
That was a big momentum builder. It got me 2-under par, it got me to | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
wear I felt I would be tied or in the lead. Having bogeyed 12, Stenson | :42:46. | :42:54. | |
tried hard to avoid a repeat at the next. But a testing par putt | :42:55. | :43:04. | |
remained. Back-to-back bogeys and Stenson was faltering. One year on | :43:05. | :43:14. | |
from the dejection of Royal Lytham, Adam Scott was elated when he | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
birdied 11 to once again lead the open on Sunday afternoon. I felt | :43:20. | :43:29. | |
good after Holding that putt. I saw that it put me in the lead but with | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
seven holes to play, your mind is not running off thinking about the | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
claret jug. After his earlier brilliance, Poulter began to stall | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
and could ill afford a bogey that reared its head at 16. | :43:45. | :43:59. | |
Still, two holes from the setback, Poulter was warmly greeted at 18. | :44:00. | :44:08. | |
One of the world's most popular players shot 67 to set the clubhouse | :44:09. | :44:15. | |
target at 1-over. Are you going to keep yourself warm and loose now, it | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
might be play-off time? I'm not having a beer yet, that's the shore. | :44:21. | :44:31. | |
-- that's for sure. Almost as soon as Scott hit the front it began to | :44:32. | :44:38. | |
open. Momentum is such a huge thing in the game. Looking back at it I | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
think the putt and 13 was crucial. A tough putt to read. The 13th would | :44:45. | :44:57. | |
be pivotal as he rattled for par. To drop a shot, momentum shifted -- | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
battled. The crowd who gathered sensed another critical moment had | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
arrived as Lee Westwood stood on the tee. | :45:09. | :45:17. | |
That was a tough hole. I went to the right and I found it tricky line and | :45:18. | :45:28. | |
I made a bogey. -- a tricky. They come out when you are under pressure | :45:29. | :45:31. | |
and you find yourself with a tricky shot. Lee Westwood had fallen back | :45:32. | :45:39. | |
to level par, one behind Adam Scott and Phil Mickelson. We knew if you | :45:40. | :45:46. | |
made a par, you would continue to be in good shape, and if you happened | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
to make something better, it was just like Christmas! Even without a | :45:51. | :45:57. | |
driver, Phil Mickelson was hitting the ball and astounding difference. | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
I was surprised that shot at 50 went so far, that 5-iron went 330 yards. | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
I could not believe it has gone that far. I ended up having a wedge into | :46:09. | :46:17. | |
that pin. There was no third consecutive birdie. At on a day when | :46:18. | :46:23. | |
a par was priceless, Mickelson was not complaining. Having stalled on | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
the previous hole, Scott again made life difficult on the 14th, falling | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
victim to the course's subtle defences. You have got to make a | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
putt to win a big tournament and defences. You have got to make a | :46:41. | :46:53. | |
Lytham, Scott was in danger of enjoying d?j? vu. Although he did | :46:54. | :47:03. | |
not know it, Phil Mickelson was now the outright leader. But on the | :47:04. | :47:06. | |
16th, he had to brush aside momentary frustration. | :47:07. | :47:08. | |
16th, he had to brush aside golf, you will get bad | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
16th, he had to brush aside for a couple of seconds, I was upset | :47:14. | :47:19. | |
the ball rolled back of the green into a low spot. -- off the green. | :47:20. | :47:24. | |
Then it dawned on me everybody had to play this hole and if I could | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
make par, I would pick up a shot. He said to me, I am going to get this | :47:31. | :47:36. | |
up and down in a calm and collected way, and I had no doubt he would. | :47:37. | :47:43. | |
Nicholson, the ultimate short game maestro, it knew saving par was be | :47:44. | :47:50. | |
crucial -- Phil Mickelson. But his chip was only half the task. -- knew | :47:51. | :48:00. | |
that saving par would be crucial. The American kept the lead. But many | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
retained hope, including Lee Westwood, who for the first time | :48:07. | :48:08. | |
that day was playing catch up. He desperately needed a morale | :48:09. | :48:20. | |
boosting birdie and opportunity came knocking on the 14th. | :48:21. | :48:28. | |
The putt was weak, the moment has passed. And on the 17th, Phil | :48:29. | :48:35. | |
Mickelson was about to produce a defining moment of the 2013 | :48:36. | :48:43. | |
Championship. I hit a perfect low driving, penetrating shot with, it | :48:44. | :48:51. | |
just ran. Phil hit 1,000 balls, if you gave him 1,000 shots on the 17th | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
hole, he would never hit one further than he hit that tee. I had a slight | :48:56. | :49:02. | |
uphill lie and the shot had to come off perfectly for me to have a | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
chance of birdie, and it did. He hit two shots of a lifetime | :49:09. | :49:09. | |
consecutively. That is where a -- that is where I | :49:10. | :49:27. | |
started to sense the excitement and I noticed more cameras, more people, | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
and I felt the energy. At a time when all around were struggling, | :49:35. | :49:35. | |
Phil Mickelson excelled. With his fifth birdie of the day, | :49:36. | :49:54. | |
the Claret jug was within touching distance. It was now clear the | :49:55. | :50:00. | |
Championship was his to lose. The Scot, the Lytham nightmare was | :50:01. | :50:09. | |
cruelly re-occurring. A small mistake can easily lead to a bogey, | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
and 15th -- and 15 was inexcusable. That was pathetic. | :50:16. | :50:21. | |
He trudged off the green dumbstruck. It is amazing how in 30 minutes, you | :50:22. | :50:30. | |
can go from Reading to not even having a chance. Mickelson still had | :50:31. | :50:36. | |
the 18th and he knew from better personal experience that nothing can | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
be taken for granted -- reading. He could lose it here. He could get | :50:42. | :50:44. | |
wild coming he could have a moment of doubt or panic, it was going to | :50:45. | :50:50. | |
win so much -- it was going to mean so much to win, I wonder if he could | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
handle it! He lost the US Open by a single stroke. But here, his tee | :50:56. | :51:02. | |
shot was flawless! It was beautiful to see, would we be at our best when | :51:03. | :51:10. | |
it matters most? And he was, in an age it was not expected. It was a | :51:11. | :51:14. | |
perfect poetic ending and I doubt he will have a better moment in his | :51:15. | :51:19. | |
career. But Henrik Stenson was not giving game as he gave himself a | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
chance of Verdi at 18 to keep his hopes alive. -- birdie. | :51:24. | :51:30. | |
But up ahead, years of practice, fierce desire and a great | :51:31. | :51:43. | |
champion's desire converged. I hit the shot on 18 dead perfect. It | :51:44. | :51:51. | |
needed is to either kick straight fractionally right, and it did. -- | :51:52. | :51:58. | |
it needed to either. People in Scotland really appreciate great | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
golf. They just treat their champions so well. And walking up | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
with that all so close, I could really enjoy that moment, it was the | :52:09. | :52:16. | |
greatest war -- ball. I get emotional just talking about it, it | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
was something I will never forget. You almost wish you could sit on the | :52:20. | :52:28. | |
back for a minute. -- you could sit on the green for a minute. It was by | :52:29. | :52:32. | |
far the best round I have ever played. But when that putt went in, | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
I knew it was over. At the age of 43, in his 20th | :52:36. | :52:50. | |
appearance at the sport's oldest major, Phil Mickelson was Open | :52:51. | :52:58. | |
champion! I remember saying after I knocked it in, I said, I did it. We | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
were both in a bit of disbelief. We heard the roaring and I said, if | :53:02. | :53:13. | |
I make this, the hole in one might be a bit too much to ask. | :53:14. | :53:22. | |
But the birdie at the 17th meant Henrik Stenson tightened his grip, | :53:23. | :53:31. | |
leaving Lee Westwood the only way a capable of spoiling Mickelson's | :53:32. | :53:35. | |
party, and to do that, he would have to birdie the 15th. | :53:36. | :53:43. | |
I felt the Championship had gone, yes. I needed a birdie in the last | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
three holes which was always going to be pretty tough. Lee Westwood was | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
stoic that were there any regrets? No. Pointless. -- but were there. | :53:56. | :54:02. | |
Waste of time. You get what you deserve in life, don't you? I'd is | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
not get the right shots, at the right time. The Mickelson family | :54:08. | :54:13. | |
could begin to celebrate. Having Amy and the kids me was a moment I will | :54:14. | :54:19. | |
cherish forever. Giving them a hug after the round. It was just a | :54:20. | :54:23. | |
moment I will cherish for the rest of my life. | :54:24. | :54:30. | |
For the second year in succession, Scott had missed another opportunity | :54:31. | :54:38. | |
but he birdied the last to tie Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter for third. | :54:39. | :54:45. | |
I never thought I would have the chance to win the Open but I showed | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
myself again this year, so it might be an ongoing affinity now with the | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
Open. But I feel there is a Claret jug in my future. Unable to recover | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
from his poor start, Tiger shared six but the Claret jug would be | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
crossing the Atlantic. Mickelson, five shots behind the start of the | :55:05. | :55:08. | |
day, one x three. Ladies and gentlemen, the winner is Phil | :55:09. | :55:14. | |
Mickelson. -- he won by three. There is something about this golf | :55:15. | :55:31. | |
course to that identifies a strong champion. And goodness me, it has | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
done it again. It was great holding the jug, to see the names and to be | :55:37. | :55:42. | |
included, this great history of the game of golf, it is awesome! I said | :55:43. | :55:48. | |
it well before I went that if I was ever wake -- if I was ever able to | :55:49. | :55:53. | |
win the Open Championship, it will be the greatest, -- accomplishment | :55:54. | :55:55. | |
of my career. I be the greatest, -- accomplishment | :55:56. | :56:02. | |
and important the Championship was until the guy I caddied for won the | :56:03. | :56:08. | |
tournament. 20 years of trying to master the | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
game and he completed last year. What a contrast, 12 months later, | :56:14. | :56:16. | |
this is what happened in the last couple of moments. Timing is | :56:17. | :56:26. | |
everything. And the 212 macro start looks to be inspired. -- the two tee | :56:27. | :56:33. | |
start. Had they started on time, they would be on the back nine and | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
probably heading for cover. So all is well that ends well on this third | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
day, certainly for Rory McIlroy because he has a very comfortable | :56:45. | :56:52. | |
six shot cushion. Rickie Fowler is his nearest challenger at 10-under | :56:53. | :56:56. | |
par, after a round of 68 today, and he gave it his best shot. Sergio | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
Garcia also within touch. There are only five within nine shots of Rory | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
and that is a significant hurdle. Psychologically. Darren Clarke is at | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
5-under. And Graeme McDowell, of Northern Ireland. Rory is trying to | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
do what Darren Clarke did at Royal Saint George's. These scores are | :57:18. | :57:30. | |
very respectable these players are off the pace. Rory will be coming | :57:31. | :57:36. | |
back tomorrow, 61 favourite to get the job tomorrow. -- 6-1 favourite. | :57:37. | :57:43. | |
If you are expecting to see more of this third round, you are late, it | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
is done and dusted because for the first time in this history, we had | :57:47. | :57:54. | |
an early start because of the threat of bad weather. Dan Walker can fill | :57:55. | :58:03. | |
you in on the best bits. The first two days were about him, | :58:04. | :58:07. | |
what about today three? It was wet and a little wild, and the golf was | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
not bad. Three bogeys did not help but at 9-under, the DJ might still | :58:14. | :58:19. | |
be spinning this weekend. It was at day for umbrellas and big pointless | :58:20. | :58:25. | |
roller things. The most inappropriate shirt of the day. | :58:26. | :58:32. | |
Thank you very much. The clothing might you more subdued, the golf is | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
glorious. The swing is not bad, he is young and popular, Rickie Fowler | :58:38. | :58:41. | |
has a future. A good start for Fowler. | :58:42. | :58:55. | |
the top and pink at the bottom! That is the former Open champion. Do not | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
discount Aaron after the joint low round of the day. -- Darren Clarke. | :59:00. | :59:08. | |
I do not leave you do over 1,000 of these a day. 995. | :59:09. | :59:15. | |
Impressive. -- it is a strange day, we are | :59:16. | :59:19. | |
waiting for the end of the world and it is not happening. We have seen | :59:20. | :59:25. | |
something of a snarl from Charl Schwartzel. He is a latecomer to | :59:26. | :59:30. | |
Hoylake and he is not the only one, there is a Frenchman, the weekend | :59:31. | :59:36. | |
could still end with a victorious victor. | :59:37. | :59:41. | |
You cannot do much better than that! If she ever works out by the way | :59:42. | :59:48. | |
round she will see Adam, Jim Furyk and Edoardo Molinari could still be | :59:49. | :59:56. | |
champions. Beautifully done by Molinari. | :59:57. | :00:03. | |
Sergio, a serious contender. The Spaniard is seven away from the lead | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
but is always capable of a spectacular finish. What do the | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
punters think? Would people of Hoylake, what -- who would you like | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
to win, Sergio Garcia? Rickie Fowler? Rory Mclroy? What a finish | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
from the two time major winner. Two Eagles in his last three holes, | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
sometimes he is simply on stoppable. -- on stoppable. That is a gem! | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
Rory is still the story. Prepare yourself for a special Sunday. | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
We certainly ready, how many sit-ups do you a day? I get one get up! I | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
have stopped doing them. You do not need to. How many have we got? He is | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
counting 1,000. I am not sure when they started. He is strong, what an | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
amazing man. He is extraordinary. And he really did change the way | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
golfers looked at their fitness. He was the original he-man of golf. | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Yes, not only fitness, he knew what to eat. He was the original man who | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
realised, because he is only five foot nine, if he was to take on Jack | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Nicholas, he needed to get as strong as he could. Tiger Woods has taken | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
it to the next level and nearly every player is eating correctly, | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
drinking water, the rest. We will talk to Gary tomorrow. Dan will | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
speak to him. We have spoken to remark a row. Six shot lead and he | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
seemed content. -- is the -- we have spoken to Rory McIlroy. He had media | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
commitments. Let's give you a flavour of what he had to say. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
I was on here last night talking about how I am comfortable in this | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
position -- in here. I am leaving the tournament, the third night in a | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
row I will be in the lead. It helps I have been in this position before | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
and I have been able to convert and to get the job done. Comfortable | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
with the position I am in but comfortable with my game. How I am | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
hitting it, comfortable on the greens. That has been a big help | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
this week. I just need to go out tomorrow and play one more solid | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
round and hopefully that will be enough. I am not taking anything for | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
granted. If the guys in front had finished a little better the way I | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
did, this tournament, my lead would not be as much as it was. Sergio and | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
Rickie struggled a bit down the stretch. That could have been a | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
different story. Instead of a six shot lead, it could have even one or | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
two. A lot can happen. -- it could have been. I have been on the right | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
side and the wrong side of it. That is why you cannot let yourself think | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
forward, you cannot think about winning, you have just got to | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
completely stay in the moment and that is what I will try to do. For | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
all 18 holes tomorrow. The support this week has been | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
fantastic. Getting standing ovation is on the greens. Even walking onto | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
the 18th today, I got goose bumps. How loud it was, how much support I | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
felt. It has been incredible. I said yesterday that I wanted to try to | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
give them something to cheer about and I will try and do the same thing | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
tomorrow. It is a pleasure to to play in front of crowds like this. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
They are very knowledgeable. -- to play. I will go out and enjoy that | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
again tomorrow. He is taking nothing for granted but | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
the rest of the field has seen him marched to victories at the US Open | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
and the PGA Championship, they have seen him in this mood before, what | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
does it do to the rest of the field and their ambition? They know he is | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
frontrunner, he has two Majors under his belt. Most of his challengers | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
have not got Majors and if they have, they are far back. He has a | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
comfortable lead, the best score today was a 67 and if Rickie Fowler | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
sheets that coming he is at 15-under. -- shoot that. -- if he | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
shoots that. I think it is probably all over. The others will think they | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
can put him under pressure, but I do not see that happening. He is | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
playing too well. And the fact it is wetter and longer will play into his | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
hands. I think he will win it. The highlight of his round of 68 whether | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
two Eagles and the foundation where the 16th and the 18th that whether | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
two Eagles. He is one of the longest hitters in the world. -- were the | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
two Eagles. He had a glorious iron. Eagle three. | :05:29. | :05:43. | |
A huge roar went out across the golf course. What is it specifically? We | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
know his powers with the longer clubs, but what, Mark, separates him | :05:50. | :05:59. | |
from the rest right now? The combination of everything. He hits | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
it so far and very straight. He hits his irons well, he can move them | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
both ways, get them into the corners of the green, he can hit the Hoylake | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
incredibly high. At 18, that was a 5-iron. -- Hoylake. A lot of people | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
can high -- can hit it hard. But to hit it hard and high is very | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
difficult. Look at the gallery. This is the first sign we have had of | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
this at the Open Championship, 7,000 in that stand, 20,000 people on the | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
course. I know Dan Walker is living the Karius Lee. He is taking the | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
walkie hopes Rory might be taking tomorrow afternoon -- precariously. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
This is where the players will arrive tomorrow and this is where | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
they will go as they prepare to go to the first tee. Most of these | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
people will be here tomorrow. High security. Then it is collection of | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
the scorecard and down the side of the clubhouse. It is very busy on a | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Saturday night and it would be even busier tomorrow. Everybody trying to | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
see the players as they go out. Excuse me! And the champion will | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
return. This is a practice green. The players will arrive about an | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
hour beforehand, they might have ten minutes on the green and they start | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
to make their way toward the first tee. Everything is prepared. The 1st | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
hole they come to is the third. You walk across the third fairway. You | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
might look into the BBC studio. That is Hazel! You might say, is Ken | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
Brown inside? And you are across the third fairway. I have never played | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
in an Open Championship, but those who have done this will tell you | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
this is when it against to sink in and you think about what it would | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
mean in a couple of hours if you could be lifting that joke on the | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
18th green. -- Claret jug. People scream your name and they asked for | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
autographs, you have to stay controlled, so when you get here and | :08:30. | :08:40. | |
your country is announced and the time is announced, and you are | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
away... -- and they will ask. It will go a little quiet. On the first | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
tee, the crowds will go wild for Rory McIlroy at around 2:30 p.m.. He | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
will shake hands and he will say hello to everybody, then he will be | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
told it is his turn and he will strike down the first at Royal | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
Liverpool knowing that in four, maybe five hours, he could be | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
arriving on the 18th green behind the grandstand. And he could be | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
crowned Open champion 2014. It does give you the shivers. The | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
tee-off times... be out with Rory and Rickie Fowler | :09:26. | :09:50. | |
at 2:40 p.m.. If there is going to be a threat, from where do you think | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
it is most likely to come? I think Rickie Fowler, you have taken the | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
names away! Fowler, Garcia, Johnson. Who is most capable? Either of those | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
three, Sergio played wonderful golf today. He needed a couple more to | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
drive on any advantage to catch up with the leader. Rickie Fowler has | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
pale -- has played super golf. But Darren Clarke, Jordan Spieth, they | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
will not catch Rory, and he sounds confident. With a par-5 and playing | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
so well, the favourite. But if he loses his confidence and there is a | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
bit of breeze, as we know from Augusta, it is never all over. Royal | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
County Down was when we saw these two players, Fowler and Rory. That | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
is in 2007, very different body shapes. They have we sculpted | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
themselves. They were just kids. -- they have sculpted themselves. You | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
could tell they were going to be superstars. There is a long way to | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
go, 18 holes tomorrow. How important could this be for European golf? You | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
have only the likes of Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros, with three or more | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
Majors. Whenever somebody wins a major title, it gives a boost to | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
British golf, Padraig Harrington has done it would job. It will encourage | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
people to play the game -- has done at that job. People will think, if | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
Rory can do it, I can. Thank you, we cannot wait for tomorrow. An earlier | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
finished than expected. Tomorrow, we will be on BBC Two. First of all at | :11:45. | :11:55. | |
10:30 a.m., and changing until the Claret jug is presented. Will it be | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
a coronation or will that the pasting in the tail? Join for the | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
last round tomorrow. -- or will that be a sting. | :12:07. | :12:43. | |
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It took less than 90 seconds for the eight-storey building to collapse. | :12:49. | :12:53. |