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The second day of action at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships brought more intrigue with the tournament debut of top-seeded John Isner to go along with four other ranked players hoping to avoid being knocked off early. Monday featured one big upset as John-Patrick Smith knocked off No. 3 seed Bernard Tomic in straight sets. This is a small event, starting with just 32 players...
Published: July 15, 2015
With defending champion Rory McIlroy out of the 2015 British Open because of an ankle injury, all eyes will be on the 21-year-old Jordan Spieth as a large 9-2 betting favorite at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark over the rest of the field when play begins Thursday at St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland. Spieth is coming off a win last week at the John Deere Classic and already has 12 top-10 finishes in...
Published: July 14, 2015
We know that only six golfers won the Masters and the U.S. Open in the same year. One of them is Jordan Spieth. Ben Hogan did it twice, in 1951 and 1953. But in 1951, Hogan didn’t enter the British Open. In 1953, he followed up his first two majors with a third, the British Open. He is still the only person in golf history to have won those three events in the same year. If you believe many,...
Published: July 14, 2015
The British Open at St. Andrews was setting up as a classic duel between the No. 1 golfer in the world in Rory McIlroy and the No. 2 golfer in Jordan Spieth. McIlroy was the defending champion, while Spieth had remarkably won the Masters and the U.S. Open, becoming the first golfer to accomplish that feat since Tiger Woods did it in 2002. However, those plans went awry when McIlroy ruptured an ankle...
Published: July 14, 2015
The 2015 British Open is set to begin early Thursday morning, and the expectations for favorites and sleepers alike are boundless as predictions are made for the year’s third major. The Open Championship at the Old Course of St. Andrews is an event unlike any other in the world, as the sport returns to its esteemed home at one of the most tradition-rich courses on the planet. Playing there tends...
Published: July 14, 2015
After going 2-0-1 in the group stage of the 2015 Gold Cup, the United States must shift its focus to Saturday’s quarterfinals—against an opponent that’s yet to be determined—and raise its level of play. The U.S. overcame slow starts against Honduras and Haiti in the first two games of the tournament, and they ultimately pulled off 2-1 and 1-0 wins, respectively. On Monday, U.S....
Published: July 14, 2015
Graham DeLaet arrived in Scotland for the Open Championship over the weekend. His clubs, on the other hand, did not. Not until 54 hours later, anyway: And as the cherry on top, they were covered in protein power: We feel your pain, Graham. [Twitter, h/t The Big Lead] Read more Golf news on BleacherReport.com Read More →
Published: July 14, 2015
It would be easy to surmise that some of the excitement surrounding the 144th British Open dissipated when Rory McIlroy, the defending champion and an obvious favorite to contend again, suffered the total rupture of a ligament in his left ankle recently. As expected, the injury suffered during a self-described “soccer kickabout” has sidelined the Northern Irishman for this weekend and the...
Published: July 14, 2015
Donald Trump owns many golf courses and clubs. He will tell you this repeatedly and at length, as he did in a recent letter to LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan. Both the LPGA and the Ladies’ Golf Union have issued statements distancing their organizations from Trump in response to inflammatory remarks the business magnate made about illegal immigration in June. The LPGA...
Published: July 14, 2015
The Open Championship returns to the ancestral home of golf this year, as the world’s best players will be teeing it up on the historic Old Course at St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. While the seaside links track is a breathtaking venue, it comes with plenty of unique obstacles. The course boasts 112 bunkers, many of which have steep faces that require golfers to play out sideways or even backward. There’s...