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Golf
British Open officials draw line at hitting over grandstands
By DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
SOUTHPORT, England
(AP) — Jason Day’s caddie
presented
British
Open
officials with an interesting
option on the par-4 ninth
hole at Royal Birkdale. Colin
Swatton wondered about
hitting a tee shot onto the adja-
cent 10th fairway for a shorter,
clearer shot into the green.
The R&A responded with
an invisible white line in the
turf.
In a decision aimed
primarily at spectator safety,
R&A chief rules director
David Rickman issued a notice
of a local rule for the week:
“When playing the ninth hole
only, a ball on or beyond the
10th fairway (defined by the
edge of the closely-mown
area) is out of bounds.”
Out-of-bounds
stakes
typically are on the boundary
of a golf course. It is rare a
links course to have internal
out-of-bounds,
especially
when it involves the golf ball
landing in short grass.
R&A chief executive
Martin Slumbers said offi-
cials were concerned because
the only way to drive from
the ninth tee onto the 10th
fairway is to hit a drive over
the top of the grandstand,
and then hit over the gallery
to the green.
“And we felt that was just
dangerous,” Slumbers said.
“So that’s been put in there
to protect the fans and the
players.”
The ninth hole, with the
wind at the players’ back,
requires a blind tee shot to
a fairway and bends sharply
to the right toward the green.
A shot onto the 10th fairway
also would be a blind shot.
It was reminiscent of the
1979 U.S. Open at Inverness,
when the USGA planted a tree
overnight after Lon Hinkle
found a way to shorten the
first hole by going down an
adjacent fairway. The R&A
opted for a local rule instead
of going to the trouble of
planting dozens of trees.
Day thought it was an
overreaction, especially with
no one even attempting such
a shot. What troubled him
was someone blasting one far
to the right on accident and
getting penalized two shots
for being O.B.
“I don’t think anyone
was going to go down there,
anyway. We just asked,”
Day said. “I can understand
if guys are actually going
to think about going there.
But I understand the safety
issue, as well, because if
you’re hitting a driver and
guys are walking straight
up 10 fairway, you can hit
someone or injure somebody
pretty badly. But if you lose
one in the wind or something
like that, and it bounces
awkwardly and you’re a foot
on the fairway or an inch on
the fairway, you’re out-of-
bounds. It’s a little unfair.”
TIGER EFFECT: No
Tiger, no problem.
British Open organizers
say they are expecting big
crowds this week at Royal
Birkdale that will rival the
Australia’s
Jason Day
prepares to
play a shot
on the 3rd
hole during
a practice
round
ahead of the
British Open
Golf Cham-
pionship,
at Royal
Birkdale,
Southport,
England
Tuesday,
July 18,
2017.
AP Photo/Peter
Morrison
attendance records set at the
Open when Tiger Woods was
in his dominant prime.
More than 220,000 people
are expected on the course
set on the northwest England
coast by the time play ends
Sunday. That ranks high
among recent Opens, some
of which was blamed on
Woods not being in the field.
“I think the sport should
be eternally grateful for the
transformation he drove in
golf,” said Martin Slumbers,
chief executive of the R&A.
“I hope he tees it up at The
Open. He’d be extremely
welcomed. But the game
moves on.”
Slumbers said the crowd
this week should rank No. 4
among biggest crowds since
the R&A started keeping
attendance figures in 1960.
The two biggest crowds
were 239,000 at St. Andrews
in 2000 and 237,000 on
the same course in 2010,
followed by 230,000 at
Royal Liverpool in 2006.
Woods won the Open in
both 2000 and 2006.
“I think there are some
wonderful players out there
now that people want to
come and watch, and the
game is moving forward,”
Slumbers said.
BUDDY
SYSTEM:
Dustin Johnson is close
friends with Brooks Koepka
and called him the night
before Koepka won the U.S.
Open to share some advice.
They live close to each other
in South Florida, practice
together and spend plenty of
time in the gym.
Johnson was on his own
for a few weeks when Koepka
headed from Wisconsin to
Las Vegas to celebrate.
“He had a good couple
weeks,”
Johnson
said.
“There was nothing for me to
celebrate. I’ve been working
pretty hard the last month. He
had a few weeks off, which
was well deserved. But yeah,
he’s back on it now.”
If they are competitive on
the golf course — they are
the last two U.S. Open cham-
pions — they apparently are
competitive in the gym, too.
Johnson said they train at the
same place.
“I usually get to the gym a
little bit earlier than he does,”
Johnson said.
RORY’S
MAJORS:
Rory McIlroy has gone 10
majors without winning,
and he still hasn’t won a
tournament this year. He’s
in one of his mini-slumps at
the moment, though he only
has to go back to his British
Open debut to realize it’s not
all bad.
McIlroy
played
Carnoustie in 2007 as an
amateur, opened with 68
and tied for 42nd as an
18-year-old. He turned pro
later that year and quickly
earned a European Tour card,
and he was on his way.
He tried to imagine what
he would have taken for a
career 10 years later.
“If someone told me,
‘You’re going to be a four-
time major winner and you
won the Open and you’re
one leg away from the career
Grand Slam, you’ve played
on three winning Ryder
Cup teams, you’ve won the
Order of Merit three times
in Europe, you’ve won the
FedEx Cup in the State,’ I’d
be like, ‘Yeah, I’ll take that.’”
DIVOTS: The R&A
plans tributes around the 18th
for two of its former cham-
pions who died since the
last British Open — Arnold
Palmer, who won at Royal
Birkdale in 1961 and Royal
Troon in 1962, and Roberto
De Vicnenzo, who won at
Royal Liverpool in 1967. ...
Mark O’Meara, who hits the
opening tee shot Thursday
morning, is playing in his
final British Open. He won
at Royal Birkdale in 1998 for
his second major that year.
... Jason Day received the
Mark McCormack Award for
spending the most weeks at
No. 1 in the world in 2016.
Day lost the No. 1 ranking to
Dustin Johnson in February.
The Australian now is No. 6.
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