:00:29. > :00:37.The eyes of the golfing world are on him. He is a powerful, accurate
:00:38. > :01:05.genius. Can he do it? Of course it can be read!
:01:06. > :01:15.Here we go. He is on a roll. He is dangerous. Fantastic shot.
:01:16. > :01:23.Absolutely brilliant shot. Top quality. That is his shot of the
:01:24. > :01:28.day. Watch out, everyone else. Absolutely fantastic. That is a gem.
:01:29. > :01:35.Very impressive. My goodness. Lovely!
:01:36. > :01:44.Good morning. It is the final day of the Championship here at Hoylake.
:01:45. > :01:50.The Claret jug is gleaming and the engraver is on stand-by. For many,
:01:51. > :01:54.it is the name of Rory McIlroy that will be etched onto this. He has a
:01:55. > :02:01.six shot lead, one of the largest ever going into a final round of and
:02:02. > :02:12.Open Championship. Will it be in his clutches by the end of the day?
:02:13. > :02:23.Rickie Fowler is the closest, but if there will be a hot pursuit, it is
:02:24. > :02:28.most likely to come from the likes of Sergio Garcia, Edoardo Molinari,
:02:29. > :02:29.Dustin Johnson or Victor Dubuisson, the only players within nine shots
:02:30. > :02:44.of him. Sport is a funny thing. You just
:02:45. > :02:51.never No. That is why we will be glued to the coverage all day today
:02:52. > :02:55.until the claret jug is one at about 6:30pm. I hope you will share the
:02:56. > :03:02.day with a sea on BBC One as well. We go now out onto the famous
:03:03. > :03:08.links. It is a delight to see blue skies
:03:09. > :03:16.and an amazingly dry course. We were very lucky yesterday. Play had just
:03:17. > :03:25.ended when the rain came down on and, oily, did it come down! This
:03:26. > :03:28.area is amazingly dry when you think of some of the scenes at
:03:29. > :03:38.Championships over the last 20 or 30 years when it has rained, I am
:03:39. > :03:43.thinking of times when it has gone on to Monday play.
:03:44. > :03:48.thinking of times when it has gone shirtsleeved order amongst the crowd
:03:49. > :03:55.sea. I am in the box with Andrew Cotter, he is relieved that the sun
:03:56. > :04:04.is shining. Heat haze, look at that! The breeze has shifted round
:04:05. > :04:05.today. It is North north-westerly today. It has been South
:04:06. > :04:08.southeasterly when today. It is North north-westerly
:04:09. > :04:19.today. It it has blown in the first three days. North West is not a
:04:20. > :04:25.usual wind here. It is only 180 acres, this little corner. It almost
:04:26. > :04:29.looks it has been ruled out with a ruler, with a road down to the sea
:04:30. > :04:35.and some beautiful houses. The helicopter is on duty.
:04:36. > :04:47.A fascinating corner of England, the Wirral, and there are dozens of
:04:48. > :04:58.those wind turbines are stacked out there. Tiger Woods, his trials and
:04:59. > :05:06.tribulations continue. He was out in 36 with a double bogey at the 7th.
:05:07. > :05:14.After the rain yesterday, the rough was very tenderly down the bottom
:05:15. > :05:18.end, thick and matted. It is a morbid fascination, watching Tiger
:05:19. > :05:23.Woods. He is still very rusty and has not been back playing for long.
:05:24. > :05:27.He was playing at the Congressional a couple of weeks ago, and a lot of
:05:28. > :05:34.people were expecting great things here, but I think this shot masked a
:05:35. > :05:38.few of the serious flaws that are still there. He took his glove off
:05:39. > :05:40.for that shot to give him some more feel, but he did not want to feel,
:05:41. > :05:51.he wanted thumper. I find it extraordinary to think it
:05:52. > :06:02.is the case, but it would appear I find it extraordinary to think it
:06:03. > :06:09.that he is muddled. We knew he might struggle with his driver if he was
:06:10. > :06:14.forced to take it out, but he took the decision to be more aggressive
:06:15. > :06:24.on the second day. The 17th hole, it went miles out of bounds. He really
:06:25. > :06:35.had to scramble to make the cut. Luke Donald, he has been treading
:06:36. > :06:39.water over the last season or two. World's number one for a period.
:06:40. > :06:44.Another player who has been at the top but decided to change things a
:06:45. > :06:55.bit. He left his coach for the long game. He is trying to take a bit of
:06:56. > :07:02.his hand out of it. Wide? That is what intrigues me. You are winning
:07:03. > :07:06.tournaments. He was making the most of his talents, and then he took it
:07:07. > :07:17.to pieces. Tiger Woods finishing off, hopefully. In she goes.
:07:18. > :07:35.Part here, 72. First match, 18th hole. I mentioned Jason Dufner
:07:36. > :07:36.moment ago. What a second shot he has hit here, and this is for an
:07:37. > :07:47.eagle. Jason Dufner has just gone birdie,
:07:48. > :07:54.birdie, eagle, 1-under for the Championship. That is as close to
:07:55. > :08:01.ecstasy as I have seen Jason Dufner! You certainly get plenty of
:08:02. > :08:07.sand here when the tide goes out. It goes out and out, all along this
:08:08. > :08:12.coast up to Morecambe. Whether quicksands, very treacherous. My dog
:08:13. > :08:37.is being walked out there today. Jason Dufner has appeared fairly
:08:38. > :08:40.recently. These fellows pop-out in their 30s and you wonder what they
:08:41. > :08:45.have been doing for ten years, and then you see that they have been
:08:46. > :08:52.learning their trade. Mickelson with his faithful caddy, looking rather
:08:53. > :08:58.sombre today in black. Or is it dark blue? It is like is black on the
:08:59. > :09:10.final day, like Tiger Woods likes his red. They are respective power
:09:11. > :09:15.colours. Phil Mickelson is the defending champion for one more day.
:09:16. > :10:07.I am not sure either Robson knew what to do with his day off
:10:08. > :10:18.yesterday. I am amazed that Tiger Woods, having
:10:19. > :10:19.been such a marvellous player for 20 years, does not have a safe key
:10:20. > :11:02.shot. -- tee shot. Lots of birdies today, a few bogeys,
:11:03. > :11:08.a few sevens and sixes. Stenson was a pre-championship favourite, but
:11:09. > :11:12.has not materialised. He will have to wait another year for this great
:11:13. > :11:26.Championship and the possibility of winning it.
:11:27. > :11:33.The very tall figure of Chris Wood. There is a battle between him and
:11:34. > :11:39.Robert Karlsson between you gets the tall title.
:11:40. > :11:46.A very good links player. A good player or round. Lovely second into
:11:47. > :12:04.the eighth. Playing alongside Paul Casey today,
:12:05. > :12:08.who has been showing glimpses of good form lately, but not able to
:12:09. > :12:14.put the whole thing together. I like watching him hit the ball. He had an
:12:15. > :12:21.interesting slow delivery, and his thump hits it miles and miles. Good
:12:22. > :12:26.putter. You can lose pieces of the jigsaw on occasion. Sometimes they
:12:27. > :12:30.come together and they all fit and things are smooth. Everything feels
:12:31. > :12:48.and looks the same. But it doesn't work quite as well.
:12:49. > :12:56.A piece of the jigsaw that has been missing this week, 35 putts in the
:12:57. > :12:57.first day, and it has improved slightly since then. That part of
:12:58. > :13:05.the game has been costing him. Very pleasant conditions that here,
:13:06. > :13:13.with a freshening Very pleasant conditions that here,
:13:14. > :13:45.turned into a decent one club wind. Dufner. The left side today -- the
:13:46. > :13:54.pin is on the left side today. It is not have a good Open record at all.
:13:55. > :13:56.He has not been great this season. Tiger Woods will try to pitch this
:13:57. > :14:15.71, 71 Hoffman and Hurley, just short of the flag.
:14:16. > :14:19.71, 71 Hoffman and Hurley, three hours. We will see how that
:14:20. > :14:25.changes come the end of the day. It can be done. I think Tiger is
:14:26. > :14:38.heading down to the bunker on the right hand side.
:14:39. > :14:50.Duly converted. Gets back to 1-over. Good group to watch, Cabrera-Bello
:14:51. > :15:11.Nicholson. -- Cabrera and Nicholson. This is game number 19. The
:15:12. > :15:14.defending champion, Phil Mickelson. That is the only different
:15:15. > :15:19.introduction that a player will get at this Championship. If you harbour
:15:20. > :15:53.champion, you get that little prefix.
:15:54. > :15:56.good. It rather amuses me to hear players talk about this one of the
:15:57. > :16:05.most difficult opening tee shots will stop from Argentina, Angel
:16:06. > :16:13.Cabrera. This is the second time the Championship has been here since
:16:14. > :16:19.2006, and this is usually the 17th hole, not the first. Cabrera, out
:16:20. > :16:25.with the driver very often. Sometimes it works well and
:16:26. > :16:28.sometimes it finds the rough. Yes, if the wind is from the north-west
:16:29. > :16:36.then the first will be slightly across, in from the right. Slightly
:16:37. > :16:41.tough to carry over those bunkers. I think a lot of players will line up
:16:42. > :16:43.somewhere short. A newly cut path through the tangle we rough to the
:16:44. > :17:01.fairway. The last pair go off at 2:40pm.
:17:02. > :17:10.Playing just pairs today, two balls. Luke Donald with his seconds to the
:17:11. > :17:18.fifth, a big and arcing par-5. Another player who is always nicely
:17:19. > :17:25.balanced. A sweet shot. Delightful. Beautiful. CHEERING
:17:26. > :17:33.Playing alongside Zach Johnson. A strong right-hand grip. Gets his
:17:34. > :17:37.body out of the way quickly. Otherwise you are fighting a hook.
:17:38. > :17:45.What can he do with this? Just the same. Yet still. APPLAUSE
:17:46. > :17:52.I don't think we will see two better shot than that today. Back to
:17:53. > :18:10.Dufner. Struggling a bit here after going birdie, eagle.
:18:11. > :18:16.I did not see where Dufner finished, I think that might be a shot gun.
:18:17. > :18:23.Maureen Madill can confirm where Tiger was. Both players making an
:18:24. > :18:29.easy hole look difficult. Dufner missed the green miles left, it was
:18:30. > :18:33.a bogey. Tiger missed 20 yards short and right and had an indifferent
:18:34. > :18:38.chip to hear. I have to say that Tiger does not look exactly thrilled
:18:39. > :18:48.to be here. I find that most extraordinary, but there we are.
:18:49. > :18:58.Almost as if he's hoping somebody will tell him what to do. Surely he
:18:59. > :19:12.should know himself how to do it. I'm lost. 5-over for the
:19:13. > :19:19.Championship. Two over for the day. Now, Chris Wood, a lovely second
:19:20. > :19:37.shot into here. And a very nice three for the man from Bristol.
:19:38. > :19:53.Mickelson's second shot. Straight, hit it straight. Yeah, like that.
:19:54. > :19:58.Whoa, whoa. It was good once. You see the changing character of this
:19:59. > :20:01.hole. You leave yourself a very long second shot and a lot of players
:20:02. > :20:08.hitting wedges in in the last couple of days. Hello. He almost hit that
:20:09. > :20:14.before he was ready. I don't know what happened there. Perhaps he has
:20:15. > :20:18.a plane to catch. He was on the move before he hit it and looks decidedly
:20:19. > :20:24.cheesed off. I like that old-fashioned word, cheesed off.
:20:25. > :20:29.Disappointed. Look at that. Surely that won't cross the Atlantic. Some
:20:30. > :20:36.fella did once, maybe in something a bit more sturdy than that. Come on
:20:37. > :20:44.Luke. One of the most beautiful putters in the world. One right, one
:20:45. > :20:47.left. He might as well have chipped and parted a couple of birdies. --
:20:48. > :21:01.and putted. Cabrera at the 1st had a clatter
:21:02. > :21:10.with the drive. Got over the bunker but left. Magic clicking fingers,
:21:11. > :21:24.get down, get down. To the back of the green. That's OK. You see the
:21:25. > :21:29.ribbons on the player 's hats, that's in respect of Bob Torrance
:21:30. > :21:34.who died yesterday, one of the most respected figures in professional
:21:35. > :21:37.golf. A great character and coach. Maureen. Bunkers down the right and
:21:38. > :21:47.golf. A great character and coach. Maureen. Bunkers sometimes old rough
:21:48. > :21:55.down the left. Nothing from the crowd.
:21:56. > :21:57.Maureen. Bunkers sometimes old rough down the left. Nothing from the Must
:21:58. > :22:01.be difficult for any great in any sports to have the waning of the
:22:02. > :22:06.powers. It could be temporarily, but when somebody else is doing what you
:22:07. > :22:12.used to do, it can be hard to accept. If you can't put it together
:22:13. > :22:18.it is time to leave the stage. That is always the big debate, when do
:22:19. > :22:24.you retire? Very few retire to soon. They just hang on. They are doing
:22:25. > :22:29.the farewell Frank Sinatra bit. But they still have a presence. This
:22:30. > :22:31.fella still had a presence, I saw Sinatra in one of his last concerts.
:22:32. > :22:39.He did Sinatra in one of his last concerts.
:22:40. > :22:44.voice but he still had presence. EA points there. It is hard to give up
:22:45. > :22:54.the stage when you have the appellation of the multitude. -- DA
:22:55. > :22:59.Points. I'm sure Tiger will win again and will continue to win
:23:00. > :23:04.Majors again. We certainly can't write him off but he's closer to 40
:23:05. > :23:11.than 30 and he's had all sorts of injuries and is in a bit of golfing
:23:12. > :23:16.turmoil, mental turmoil. A lot of things in the balance. It wouldn't
:23:17. > :23:22.surprise me if he won next week. It would, really, but you never know.
:23:23. > :23:29.The classic thing is, at Royal Lytham St Annes a few years ago
:23:30. > :23:32.with Nick Price, two shots ahead, and we said if he did 68 he must
:23:33. > :23:42.win. He did 68 but Seve and we said if he did 68 he must
:23:43. > :23:51.did 65 and won the Championship. The par-3 is 205 yards today. The clouds
:23:52. > :23:54.are skimming across the hole from left to right. A glorious iron shot
:23:55. > :24:06.for Zach Johnson also in this group.
:24:07. > :24:12.Scott Drummond will be watching this one for us. Good morning. Zach
:24:13. > :24:22.Johnson is just about to go with a 5-iron. The pin is just cut a yard
:24:23. > :24:26.on to the top shelf today. Can the players see much of the green from
:24:27. > :24:30.the tee or has the rough grown up there a bit? There is some
:24:31. > :24:34.relatively high rough, I don't think there a bit? There is some
:24:35. > :24:43.they can see most of the back shelf and all of the pin, certainly.
:24:44. > :24:53.He followed looped in with a beautiful iron at the last hole. --
:24:54. > :25:00.followed Luke in. A beautiful stroke there. Place at
:25:01. > :25:06.followed Luke in. A beautiful stroke Three hours for 18 holes. I suppose
:25:07. > :25:17.you can do that when nobody is ahead of you. The first pair did that. The
:25:18. > :25:24.6th hole. You can get a kick in off the right-hand side off the slopes.
:25:25. > :25:31.The pin is on the back level so the ball coming to a halt on the rise.
:25:32. > :25:49.-- the par-4. shot. The park
:25:50. > :25:58.Obviously like short sleeve shirts. They always look a little bit short
:25:59. > :26:05.to me, but that's just me. Some players like their sleeves down to
:26:06. > :26:11.the elbow. Thomas Bjorn now. Hit just about as close as Tiger Woods
:26:12. > :26:19.did a few moments ago. -- as Chris Wood did. Thomas Bjorn playing
:26:20. > :26:28.alongside Henrik Stenson today. The third birdie four yawn today.
:26:29. > :26:37.2-under for the Championship. -- for Bjorn. Good crowds today, you can
:26:38. > :26:45.see the ground a bit muddy looking, the green grass has gone, but it is
:26:46. > :26:48.certainly not a quagmire. And extraordinary day yesterday for
:26:49. > :26:52.weather forecasts. Never seen anything like it in my shortish life
:26:53. > :27:04.on this planet. Thunder, lightning. HAZEL IRVINE: It was a pretty tasty
:27:05. > :27:11.storm but happily it is a beautiful day for the final day of this 143rd
:27:12. > :27:19.Open Championship. Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler will be stepping onto
:27:20. > :27:23.the first tee at 2:40pm. Johnson and Garcia at 2:30pm. And Edoardo
:27:24. > :27:30.Molinari and Victor Dubuisson at 2:20pm. Those are the only men
:27:31. > :27:35.within nine shots of Rory's lead. It is a healthy lead. I imagine those
:27:36. > :27:39.at 6-under will imagine they can go though today. Can Darren Clarke post
:27:40. > :27:45.another good total after his best round of the day yesterday, 67. It
:27:46. > :27:57.has been a great week for the island of Ireland. So much to enjoy on this
:27:58. > :28:02.final day. Thomas Bjorn going well, one of three players making a move
:28:03. > :28:07.today. Not threatening the leaders. Tiger Woods is too over for the
:28:08. > :28:11.day. A double bogey at the 7th, currently 5-over for the
:28:12. > :28:15.Championship. He's out with Jason Dufner who had an eagle at ten so
:28:16. > :28:20.there is movement on the golf course. We are expecting more of
:28:21. > :28:24.that. We will leave Hoylake for about ten minutes as we catch up
:28:25. > :28:26.with the news headlines from around the world but we will see you at
:28:27. > :28:34.around 12:10pm. See you soon. It took less than 90 seconds for the
:28:35. > :28:44.eight-storey building to collapse. Imagine the number of women
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