He fired an iron down the crispy fairway and a wedge that settled 8 feet left of the cup that he made for birdie. Woods teed off to a rousing ovation on the first tee at Carnoustie, wearing a pair of kinesiology tape strips on the back of his neck because of soreness. Tiger Woods returned to the British Open with a birdie. It added up to 4-over par through eight holes, and Carnoustie wasn't getting any easier. And then he three-putted for double bogey. On the fifth hole, he missed the green so far to the right that workers had to lift TV cables for him to putt under from some 100 feet away. He had to play another bunker shot with one knee on the grass because of a similar lie on No. Open, made his second double bogey at the British Open when he took three shots to get out of a bunker on the par-3 eighth, starting with one shot from his knees because the ball was so close to the edge. Koepka, who became the first player in 29 years to win back-to-back in the U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka is spending way too much time in all the wrong places. At this rate, that doesn't look to change. ![]() Open and the British Open in the same year, 2000. Tiger Woods was the last player to win the U.S. Magnus quit playing soccer to focus on golf at the age of 15. That was exciting because this is my World Cup.'' ''I holed a few good putts and I could definitely hear them making some noise. ''Some of them have been coming here for 10 years so this is a big deal for them. ''There were quite a few Icelanders going crazy,'' the 27-year-old Magnus said of his supporters out on the course. Haraldur Magnus, the first man from Iceland to play at a major golf championship, said ''every muscle and bone in my body was shaking'' when he took his opening tee shot at Carnoustie.īut after reaching the turn in 4 over, Magnus had one of the best back nines of the first round and finished birdie-birdie for a 1-over 72. Koepka made five birdies and one bogey coming home.Īt first, the Iceman struggled to keep cool at the British Open. He attempted one of the shots from outside the bunker with both knees on the ground. The low point of Koepka's round came on the eighth hole, when he needed three shots to get out of a pot bunker. 4-ranked American reached the turn in 41 but rallied with a stunning 31 on the back nine for a 1-over 72, which left him six shots off leader Kevin Kisner. ![]() Just when it looked like his game was unraveling, Koepka bounced back. Open champion on the front nine at the British Open. Carnoustie brought Brooks Koepka to his knees amid a testing stretch of holes for the U.S.
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