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Daily Record
8 minutes ago
- Sport
- Daily Record
Sergio Garcia snaps driver in rage at The Open after wild tee shot
The Spaniard was furious with himself at the second at Royal Portrush and the head came flying off his driver Seething Sergio Garcia disrupted the calm morning air at Royal Portrush by snapping his driver in rage. The Spanish star lost the plot on the second tee after sending a wild shot off target. Garcia was furious at himself and cracked his club into the deck. As he smashed it into the turf, the head came flying off leaving him without a big dog for the rest of the round. The LIV ace is desperate to do well at The Open to give himself a chance of making The Ryder Cup team for the clash against the United States at Bethpage in September. However, at level par, he's been unable to trouble the leaders in Northern Ireland and his chances of playing in Luke Donald 's team look slim. At the beginning of the month, Europe's record points scorer had outlined his ambitions as he said: 'It's going to be my second time playing at Royal Portrush, and it's obviously nice. "It's one of the goals that you have at the beginning of the year, to try to play as many majors as you can with the limitations that we get. "I didn't help myself very much the last three months, but I'm glad that I got enough work done in the first third of the year, in the first part of the season. I'm excited about it and, hopefully, I'll play well. 'It's a five-week stretch, so it's going to be Dallas, BMW Munich, Valderrama, British Open and JCB, so it's a big stretch. But thankfully I'm doing well physically, even at my age, and hopefully I'll be able to get through the five weeks well.' 'If they had told me I was going to be in this position and with a chance of being on the Ryder Cup team, obviously I would have taken it without a doubt. Now what I have to do is keep showing my strengths, keep showing my golf, especially what I showed in the first third of the year. 'The good thing is that I know I'm on Luke's ballot and I just have to keep showing that I can do good things and that I can help the team. The Ryder Cup is my favourite golf tournament in the world. 'It would be incredible to be able to compete in another Ryder Cup, especially knowing that in New York, at Bethpage, it's going to be tough and maybe a little experience always comes in handy.' Tune in to Hotline Live every Sunday to Thursday and have your say on the biggest issues in Scottish football and listen to Record Sport's newest podcast, Game On, every Friday for your sporting fix, all in bitesize chunks.
7NEWS
9 hours ago
- Sport
- 7NEWS
Australia's last Open Championships hope Marc Leishman eyes top-four finish as Scottie Scheffler unreachable
Marc Leishman knows Scottie Scheffler may have put the Claret Jug out of sight — but Australia's only British Open hope is still dreaming of the glittering prizes a top-four finish would bestow. With an eve-of-final-round pint of Guinness and the alluring thought of doing something 'really, really silly' out on the Royal Portrush links, the 41-year-old Victorian reckons he still has plenty to play for in Sunday's finale. Leishman kept the Aussie flag flying with a three-under 68 in benign conditions on the Dunluce links during Saturday's third-round 'moving day', happy to shoulder the load after all his eight compatriots failed to make the cut for the weekend. He's tied for 22nd place, 10 shots adrift of unbackable leader Scottie Scheffler, with even Leishman accepting that being so far behind the world No.1 makes the idea of him winning the Jug a decade after he finished runner-up in a playoff at St Andrews seem wholly unfeasible. But he's only six shots behind the best of the rest, Li Haotong, and has eyes on a top-four finish which would guarantee him a return to both next year's Masters, after a three-year absence, and a place at the 2026 Royal Birkdale Open. 'Obviously there's the carrot dangling to try to get into the top-four,' Leishman mused. 'Yes, you want to do something silly and try to go crazy low, but you also want to make sure you give yourself a chance to get into the other majors. 'Probably more so looking at that. I'm nine back at the moment, probably going to be more than 10 back at the end of the day the way he (Scheffler) is playing,' added Leishman when he finished, while the world No.1 was still strutting his stuff out on course. 'That will be too many shots, unless I do something really, really silly. He's probably going to get to 20-under! I'm not going to shoot 56.' The LIV Golf star, in fine form after winning his maiden event on the Saudi-run circuit at Trump National Doral in Miami in April, smiled: 'Hopefully I can do something silly tomorrow and try to sneak into that top five or 10.' He hasn't played in any of the last 10 majors since his move to LIV but still didn't feel the pressure of being the only Aussie on view. 'It's been a while, but something you can slide back into pretty easily. It's what we want to do, play majors, win majors. I've not been in them for a while, but happy to be back,' said the man who's enjoyed three top-10 finishes at the British Open. On Saturday, starting at one under, he made a woeful start when three putts from 40ft at the first led to an immediate bogey, but he responded swiftly with a brilliant tee shot to within two foot of the pin at the short third and then sank a 12-footer for another birdie at the fifth. A delightful approach to four foot at the 11th provided further encouragement and though finding the fairway bunker at the long 12th led to a bogey six, he again bounced back, this time in spectacular fashion at the short 13th when he holed a 34ft birdie putt. His third birdie two of the round came at the 16th when he holed from the fringe of the green. 'I felt really good today actually. If I'd played the par-fives better, I could have had a really low one, but played them at one-over. Hopefully I'll save it all for tomorrow.' And the key ingredient for success? 'Yeah, probably another Guinness for sure,' smiled Leishman after a quick check of the watch.
Irish Daily Mirror
14 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
Tyrrell Hatton hunting Ryder Cup place and major glory at Royal Portrush
Tyrrell Hatton will have the Ryder Cup in the back of his mind when he heads out for the final round of The Open as he realises there is little chance of him catching runaway leader Scottie Scheffler. The Englishman is six shots adrift of the world number one, who sits at 14 under, but he knows there is a bigger picture. 'It's nice to be high up on the leaderboard in a major,' said the 33-year-old, who finished joint fourth at last month's US Open having been in contention until the last couple of holes. 'Certainly tomorrow is the last round for me to earn Ryder Cup points, there's a lot to play for tomorrow. 'I'm hoping that I can go out there and play a really good round of golf. I'd love to make the Ryder Cup team automatically and not rely on needing a pick. 'One thing I'm proud of the last three Ryder Cups I've played is that I've made the team automatically. 'Sure, since I joined LIV, I knew that was going to make things a lot harder for me to make it a fourth time. 'I guess for self pride I'd love to keep that streak going of being an automatic pick. 'That will make it even more pleasing, rewarding because I know that I've had a lot less tournaments than the other guys to do it.' Hatton currently sits fourth in the European Ryder Cup standings. Only the top six qualify automatically. A good finish at Royal Portrush will consolidate his position and that is the best he can hope for as he knows this is not the same as when he contended in the previous major. 'It is a very different challenge and at the moment a completely different situation,' he added after a round of 68, the highlight being a hole-out eagle at the par-five seventh. 'I'd have to have an unbelievable front nine tomorrow to be in the same position going into the back nine as what I experienced at Oakmont.'
The Age
14 hours ago
- Sport
- The Age
Leishman continues strong form at the Open in Northern Ireland
Marc Leishman, Australia's last man standing at The Open Championship, will be striving for a top ten finish on Sunday to guarantee him a start in next year's tournament. On a day when tens of thousands of fans packed out Royal Portrush to watch local hero Rory McIlroy propel himself up the leaderboard, Leishman made five birdies and two bogeys to card a three-under round of 68, keeping alive his chances of doing damage to the leaderboard in the final round. A top 10 finish would grant the LIV golfer exemption into The Open in 2026 while an unlikely top four-finish would also give Leishman entry into next year's Masters. It's far more than just money on the line. Leishman told Australian reporters that he will wait to see what the conditions are - they've been chaotic - on Sunday before figuring out a game-plan for his final round. 'I'm hitting it well enough to be aggressive. Depends what the conditions do. If the wind gets up a little bit, you've got to try and give yourself makeable birdie putts on every hole. If it's like it was today, you probably have to be a bit more aggressive and try and make something happen. 'It's one of those things; you just have to hit good shots. If you're not hitting good shots, whether you're aggressive or conservative, you're not going to have a good score. If you are hitting good shots, you can play that way and still have a good score. 'I feel like my iron play is really good at the moment, and there might be a few pins that I'll be able to go at that maybe, depending on the situation, I might otherwise not go at. Yeah, we'll see what the situation brings.'
Sydney Morning Herald
14 hours ago
- Sport
- Sydney Morning Herald
Leishman continues strong form at the Open in Northern Ireland
Marc Leishman, Australia's last man standing at The Open Championship, will be striving for a top ten finish on Sunday to guarantee him a start in next year's tournament. On a day when tens of thousands of fans packed out Royal Portrush to watch local hero Rory McIlroy propel himself up the leaderboard, Leishman made five birdies and two bogeys to card a three-under round of 68, keeping alive his chances of doing damage to the leaderboard in the final round. A top 10 finish would grant the LIV golfer exemption into The Open in 2026 while an unlikely top four-finish would also give Leishman entry into next year's Masters. It's far more than just money on the line. Leishman told Australian reporters that he will wait to see what the conditions are - they've been chaotic - on Sunday before figuring out a game-plan for his final round. 'I'm hitting it well enough to be aggressive. Depends what the conditions do. If the wind gets up a little bit, you've got to try and give yourself makeable birdie putts on every hole. If it's like it was today, you probably have to be a bit more aggressive and try and make something happen. 'It's one of those things; you just have to hit good shots. If you're not hitting good shots, whether you're aggressive or conservative, you're not going to have a good score. If you are hitting good shots, you can play that way and still have a good score. 'I feel like my iron play is really good at the moment, and there might be a few pins that I'll be able to go at that maybe, depending on the situation, I might otherwise not go at. Yeah, we'll see what the situation brings.'
