As Daniel Brown battles the weather and his fellow Open rivals Sunday afternoon at Royal Troon, don’t be stunned if the 29-year-old Englishman rips a dart or two.
“I suppose it may very well be a coping mechanism,” mentioned Brown, who says he often solely offers into his dangerous behavior of smoking cigarettes when he’s on the golf course.
He’s simply attempting to be discreet about it.
“I used to be attempting to sneak,” Brown added. “I imply, my mother and pop are right here. There’s lots of people watching. I don’t understand how persons are going to take it. Clearly, I’m positive lots of people know. [My parents] do know, however I don’t do it in entrance of them, or I don’t need to do it in entrance of them, so I attempt to cover it.”
Tv cameras, although, have made that troublesome, as a number of instances on Saturday the published confirmed Brown huddled below his umbrella, lighting up a heater amid the moist and windy situations. His remaining smoke of the spherical got here as he performed the troublesome par-4 ending gap; he took a couple of puffs, posed for a fast photograph with followers after which trudged to measurement up an not possible lie in a fairway bunker, which led to a closing double bogey.
But even with a 3-over end over his final two holes to fall from the solo lead, Brown nonetheless finds himself in competition coming into Sunday’s remaining spherical, which he’ll start at 3 below, a shot off the lead, and paired with world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler.
