Portrush, Northern Ireland – in the early days of Livi, Tiger and some of his friends in Florida Tour, in the armchair of their closed lives, had a gentle, meaning to take away: With the exception of broxes (Brooks Koepka) and dj (Johnson Dustin)to whom will you really miss you?
Well, this guy: Henrik StensonThe Fit, Doll Suede, now 49 years old, winner of British Open 2016 (on a fire exchange on Sunday with Liv Golfer Future Phil Mickelson), was once planned to be the Captain of the 2023 Ryder Cup for Europe. Going Liv finished it. Svenson is one of four former champions open here in Royal The field now plays for liv. Rounding this is unlikely, you can say stunning, the fourth is Mickelson (first round 70, one under), Cameron Smith (72) and Louis Oosthuizen (77). Stenson signed for 75.
He played the first round through a stained rain. Fanny Sunesson legendary, accompanied by Looper’s pension for this week in the Atlantic, did his best to keep it dry. Sunesson was tied to Stenson when he won the 2009 player championship. Also, for Nick Faldo When he won his two openings and two of his three titles of masters. Sunesson is now a mental coach and only a very random caddy, working this week and earlier this month for Stenson at the Liv event in Dallas, where he was 95 degrees in the shade. She and Svenson speak Swedish in the course, and there are many of her.
It is also Sunesson’s first language. She played amateur Golf in Sweden with sisters Sörenstam. Those two points, with the chance you don’t know (I looked at them), are known as a umlaut. Sunesson is as accurate as Stenson is loose. They were entertaining to see Thursday, the giant ombrela of Callaway and Stenson Stenson only so, to keep the rain from the ball of its boss’s golf while preparing to come. But not long. TAKE LEGAL!
“It is too much to manage there,” said an extremely dry Stenson Thursday afternoon. “The rain is coming to you, you are trading the towel for the umbrella. You will soak your feet, you are trying to keep your gloves dry. Thank you good for Fanny. It keeps you dry.” Dryex.
I asked for svenson because I wanted to share one Arnold nugget with it. He opposed Arnold Palmer’s March tour at Bay Hill several times and lived nearby. One year, Stenson was claiming and his group received repeated warnings about their game rate. No one would ever call Stenson a slow player. “I was playing with Bryson, again during the day,” said Svenson (entertaining).
Bryson Dechambeau, when playing PGA Tour, was an annoying, slow -attractive player. Stenson never won the event. Dechambeau did, in 2021. Many many have changed since then. Dechambeau shot a 77 opening in Portrad.
The Nugget: Arnold loved British Open (as he called it) and won it twice, in 1961 and ’62. He loved the old course and St. Andrews. He loved him very much to watch on TV. (More jogging shots, with low flight, less conversation.) For Arnold, there were really three degrees. (He won four masters, two openings, one open in the US. He never won the PGA Championship and had a certain and eternal ambivalence regarding the PGA of America.) The last Major he looked at with strong and sustainable interest was 2016 Open in Troon. He looked at his home in Latrobe with his friend Tom Ridge, the former Guardine of Pennsylvania and one of his two nephews, Will wearToday a good amateur golf player and a golf coach at Loyola University in Maryland. On Sunday, with Stenson and Mickelson in the last forty in a perfect day of Scottish wine, Arnold climbed.
“He was rooting for stenton,” Will told me lately. “He was invested in him. Not falling asleep. Food came to us. He didn’t miss a shot. He liked the stinging of Stenson’s shooting. I think he wanted the boy who was not in danger of earning more degrees than him.” Mickelson had five diplomas then, and now there are six. Mickelson played on 16 APIs, and won it in 1997, but did not play in 2016, and Arnold was always pointing out those types of absences. But the biggest thing was Phil’s threat to Arnold’s final number: Lucky 7.
“I haven’t been aware of that, that’s really nice to hear,” Svenson said on Thursday. “I have always regretted that I never won the Arnold tour and never met him except to say hi.” Stenson played all five matches in the 2016 Ryder Cup. Arnold Palmer died on the eve of the event, on September 25, at the age of 87. The Americans won and the Ryder Cup, the current trophy, was present for Palmer’s memorial service, held two days after the end of the event.
When Svenson went Liv, European Golf Powers removed him from his captain For the Ryder 2023 Cup. As the rules stand now, he will not be able to play in the British Senior Open next year, despite being 50, due to a ban on Liv players by the Tour World PD, who co -owned the high event with R&A. But he I have Play in British Open until he turns 60 years old. It’s a strange kind, but that’s golf these days.
On Thursday Thursday Thursday, a frightening Par-5 with a row of fancy removable houses on a hill on the left side of the road, Stenson hit a bad car, a bad second, a bad third and a good hearth, dipping under his umbrella among the shooting. You give the pro -Touring five shots to get a golf ball in a remote hole and as long as there are no penalties, they will, 99 times out of 100. Even in a stained rain.
Svenson spoke to Sweden reporters for 20 minutes when it was done. There is no Liv Stockholm event, and the creators of sports and transmitters to the Stenson homeland do not see it often. He is not talking about what will happen when he returns 50. Right now, there is no immediate way for him to play in the PGA Tour champions, even if this is something he wants to do, if his days as a magnificent liv have to end. His teammates are Lee Westwood, Sam Horsfield and Ian Poulter. Arnold had a whole second life as a player after turned 50. But that was then. Svenson may not know what 50 will bring. Meanwhile, he will try to make a cut in this open 153. Regardless, his name is in the winner’s trophy forever. Right there with Arnold.
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