NBC Sports and Golf Channel are showcasing nearly 50 hours of live coverage of the 147th Open. Missed anything? Well, you can catch up right here. Click on the links below for replays from Carnoustie, broken down into daily segments: Saturday, Day 3 (Times ET) 7AM-3PM (Watch): Jordan Spieth fired 65 to move into a three-way […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Three weeks after his playing partner claimed that he “cheated,” taking an improper drop at the Quicken Loans National, Sung Kang insisted Thursday that he did nothing wrong. Joel Dahmen tweeted that Kang cheated after a lengthy dispute about where his ball had last crossed the line of a hazard. A PGA […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – The closing stretch at Carnoustie has famously ruined many a solid round, so Jordan Spieth’s misadventures on Thursday should not have been a complete surprise, but the truth is the defending champion’s miscues were very much self-inflicted. Spieth was cruising along at 3 under par, just two shots off the early lead, […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Jhonattan Vegas thought someone was playing a practical joke on him. Or maybe he was stuck in the middle of a horror movie. Scheduled to leave for The Open a week ago, he didn’t arrive at Carnoustie until a little more than an hour before his first-round tee time Thursday. “Even if […]
Jhonattan Vegas did some range work, putted a little and strolled to the first tee for his 5:31 a.m. ET start in the 147th Open Championship. Everything before that, however, was far from routine. That face when you realized you visa to the UK is expired the same day you were supposed to travel. La […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Four players have an opportunity to overtake Dustin Johnson for world No. 1 this week. According to Golf Channel world-rankings guru Alan Robinson, Justin Thomas, Justin Rose, Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm each can grab the top spot in the world ranking. Thomas’ path is the easiest. He would return to No. […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – In advance of the 147th Open Championship, GolfChannel.com writers sound off on burning questions as players ready for a fast and firm test at Carnoustie. Here’s what our writers think about myriad topics: The Monday morning headline will be … REX HOGGARD: “Survival.” This one is easy. It always is at Carnoustie, […]
Fresh off his victory at The Greenbrier, Kevin Na is taking a quite-literally-backwards approach to his Open prep. Caddie Kenny Harms has been sharing videos of Na’s early work at Carnoustie. This one shows Na standing in a bunker and playing a flop shot over his own head (as opposed to someone else’s): How about […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers said that Phil Mickelson’s controversial penalty at the U.S. Open was not “good for the game,” but he did not say explicitly whether the ruling would have been any different at The Open. Speaking Wednesday at his annual address, Slumbers said that he spoke with Mickelson last […]
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland – Carnoustie holds a distinct position within the Open Championship’s rotation of storied venues. It’s come by its nickname, Car-Nasty, honestly as the undisputed rough-and-tumble heavyweight of all the championship links. Historically, Carnoustie is a beast. A punch in the mouth compared to the other stops on The Open dance card. If the […]