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Home hero Rory McIlroy was clearly overcome by emotion after sadly missing the halfway cut in the 2019 Open Championship. Needing to birdie one of his two closing holes, McIlroy posted two closing pars in a course record equalling 65 to miss the cut by one shot with his two-over par total. A very sombre-looking McIlroy showed his appreciation to the crowd, applauding them in return after sinking a 10-foot par putt at the final hole, for a two-over 144 score. “I wish the ending for me would have ...

Some 34-hours after admitting his knees were knocking loudly on the first tee and Shane Lowry’s heart is racing furiously in sharing the lead after two rounds of the 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush. Lowry, who had commenced his second round at four-under par, brilliantly raced to seven-under with three starting birdies before moving to 10-under par thanks to birdies on five, eight and the 10th holes. The reigning Abu Dhabi HSBC champ dropped shots at 14 and 18 to sign for a second ...

Joint Open leader Shane Lowry singled out TV commentary from Jay Townsend as the cause for being distracted on the 17th tee late in second round at The Open here at Royal Portrush. Lowry was all set to lauch his drive down the 17th when Townsend’s American accent on a nearby TV screen forced Lowry to back off his tee shot. “There’s a little tented village with a TV screen about 80 yards from the tee box, and I could hear Jay Townsend commenting on my shot,” said Lowry. “Just ...

Cam Smith was one month short of his second birthday when fellow Queenslander Ian Baker-Finch captured the 1991 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. That was 28-years ago and now Smith, who turns 26 on August 18th, has put himsel in frame to become the first Australian since Baker-Finch to be handed the famed Claret Jug. Smith is contesting just his third Open and with scores of 70 and 66 for a five-under par tally he is right in the mix to be sharing 5th place and only two shots from the lead in ...

Tiger Woods missed the halfway cut in an Open Championship for only a third time in his career and revealing he has withdrawn from next week’s inaugural WGC – FedEx Championship in Memphis. Woods indicated he was taking time off after posting a Royal Portrush second round 70 for a disappointing seven-over par tally in the 148th staging of golf’s oldest major. The 15-time Major winner got his second day off to a super start with a 30-foot opening hole birdie after being in the left ...

Rory McIlroy broke the screen in woman’s mobile phone in what was a horror start to his much-anticipated opening round of the 148th Open Championship here at Royal Portrush. McIlroy’s opening tee-shot kick from the left rough and OB by about four feet and ending-up probably posting a career first worse opening hole score in signing for a quadrupble-bogey ‘8’. The four-time Major hit 34-year-old Anna McKelvey from Bangor who was wearing a pouch around her waist, and in the ...

Former Open champion David Duval shot the worst round in Open history for 69 years at Royal Portrush on Thursday. Duval, 47 crashed to last place posting a horrible 20-over par 91 and this after having walked from the course leaving R & A officials in total confusion after posting what was first a 13 at the par-5 7th hole but then changed to a 14. Duval was originally credited with a 13 at the 7th but after ending his round in what everyone thought would be a 90 it was later adjusted to a 14. This ...