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Maybe what makes the Open Championship so interesting to us American hackers is seeing the perfect on this planet encounter conditions they by no means see on the PGA Tour.
And that always ends in seeing the perfect on this planet hit pictures that we American hackers would by no means dream of.
On Friday at Royal Troon, Matthew Fitzpatrick, the U.S. Open champion from simply two years in the past, hit simply such a shot.
After opening with a 70 on Thursday, the Englishman was off to a tricky begin within the second spherical as bogeyed the par-5 4th and doubled the sixth, one other three-shotter.
On the seventh, Fitzpatrick put his drive right into a left fairway pot bunker.
In case you haven’t heard, the bunkers are Royal Troon this week aren’t any joke.
“They’re hazards,” R&A CEO Martin Slumbers stated Wednesday morning of Troon’s bunkers. ”They’re deep. They’ve received large faces, they usually’re designed to remain out of. We’ve been wanting very fastidiously on the sand, and I believe among the gamers have commented how we’ve pushed them up somewhat bit to present them a slight likelihood to have the ability to get out.”
That slight slope across the fringe of the bunker wasn’t sufficient to assist Fitzpatrick Friday. If issues weren’t going sideways sufficient already, the 29-year-old actually needed to play out sideways.