Tyrrell Hatton on stupid game and what he must keep doing to get into Open mix

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English star savoured US Open charge and working hard to maintain the momentum
Hard-working Tyrrell Hatton wants to keep grooving right into the Open Championship.
The English star savoured being in the Major mix at the US Open where he came close to winning the title before a terrible bit of bad luck derailed his bid and JJ Spaun prevailed.
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Hatton has kept working since Oakmont with this week's LIV event in Dallas followed by another in Andalucia before Royal Portrush. The Ryder Cup ace wants to feel the Major rush again at the 153rd Championship and is grafting to keep the momentum running into Northern Ireland.
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Hatton explained: 'The thing for me is, if I feel in a comfortable space, I just want to keep doing it regularly.
"I'm not the kind of player that can have a bunch of time off and just go straight back into it and all is well.
"I guess little and often is the way forward for me, but we'll see how I go this week.
"Trying to maintain the same feelings from the US Open and last week practicing. Like always, we'll try our best.
'Even though we've had a week off since then, at this point in the season, for me anyway, I had Monday and Tuesday off, and then I was hitting balls again from Wednesday and just trying to keep the same feelings that I had at the US Open that worked well, certain things in my swing that we'd seen in the build-up to that that we were trying to make a little bit better and just trying to keep grooving that.
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'I played a couple of rounds at home last week and felt like I generally hit the ball pretty nicely. There was a lot of positives [at Oakmont].
"That was my first time coming down the stretch in a major and having the chance to potentially go on and win. Ultimately it didn't work out for me.
"It was a tough break on 17, which was just unfortunate timing in the tournament. I can deal with making bogey on 18 because I didn't hit a great tee shot there and that's just kind of one of those things that happens.
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'It was nice to finally have that feeling of having a chance to win, to be honest. I think that was my 41st or 42nd major.
"It's fair to say that I've had enough experience now, and yeah, golf is a stupid game. I didn't do anything different. I didn't try any harder or anything like that.
"I just happened to play well that week. I've proven in the past that if I play well on a given week, wherever I'm playing, I'll give myself a chance to win the tournament.'
Hatton was backed until the end at Oakmont by LIV team-mate Jon Rahm and he added: 'Yeah, it was great. I know he had another reason to hang around, as well.
"But no, it was nice to see Jon after the round. He said some nice words to me, which meant a lot, and I appreciated that.'