cover story
Open
Championship
preview:
Close, but
no cigar...
A long list of players have
had one hand on the Claret
Jug, but let it slip. A number
of Australians are among
the players denied by
human error or a cruel
twist of fate, writes
DAVID NEWBERY
David Newbery
[email protected]
I
N 2012, Adam Scott lost the Open
Championship at Royal Lytham and
St Annes.
In the first round, Adam fired a brilliant sixunder par 64 to equal the course record and
it was virtually error-free golf for the next
50 holes.
Entering the final round, he led Graeme
McDowell and Brandt Snedeker by four and
eventual winner Ernie Els by six.
With four holes to play, Scott had a fourshot cushion and looked home.
But on the 15th he pulled his approach shot
into a greenside bunker and made bogey.
On 16, he over-hit his approach shot to the
back of the green and three-putted for bogey.
From the centre of the 17th fairway, Scott
again over-hit his approach, which landed in
thick rough. He pitched out to seven metres,
missed the par putt to record his third
successive bogey.
Meanwhile, Ernie had birdied the final hole
to take the clubhouse lead at seven-under par.
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