American Brian Harman received the Open Championship by six photographs on Sunday, claiming his first main title at a rainswept Hoylake.
Masters champion Jon Rahm tied for second alongside Austria’s Sepp Straka, Australian Jason Day and South Korean Tom Kim on seven-under par.
Scratch & unlock your share of up to R50 million with Betway!
Harman held a five-shot lead in a single day and recovered from a shaky begin to cruise to victory on 13 underneath par with a one-under remaining spherical of 70.
Not since Frenchman Jean van de Velde’s notorious collapse on the final gap of the 1999 British Open has any participant squandered a five-shot benefit going into the ultimate spherical of a serious.
But the temperament of the world quantity 26 was examined early on the soaking Royal Liverpool course.
Harman bogeyed the second after a wayward strategy failed to search out the inexperienced and was then punished for a wild tee-shot on the par-five fifth with one other dropped shot.
His lead was briefly reduce to a few photographs, however back-to-back birdies on the sixth and seventh settled his nerves and stretched his lead because the chasing pack did not make a transfer.
Harman’s chic placing was the important thing to his success all week and he nailed an enormous 40-foot birdie putt at 14 earlier than one other birdie with a 4 on the par-five fifteenth set the seal on a remarkably composed efficiency.
ALSO READ | Open Championship reveals file prize cash: R54 million for the winner
By Garrin Lambley © Agence France-Presse
