The Open 2021: Golf's oldest major returns after Covid-19 hiatus
Of those six most-recent major winners, which also include world number one Dustin Johnson, only Phil Mickelson has previously won the Open while Spain's Rahm is bidding to become the first player to follow a US Open victory by lifting the Claret Jug since Tiger Woods in 2000.
Since Clarke's victory, all of the winners have sat among the top 40 at the time and each of those had recorded at least one previous top-10 Open finish before their victory. "But if you do hit it off line, you're going to be lucky to get a lie a lot of the time. Bad shots are probably going to be punished due to long rough - you know with links courses, the wind, the weather makes such a difference."
"Quite a few blind tee shots, kind of hitting to nothing. Fairways are quite undulating. I don't know, it's not my favourite of the rotation, put it that way," said the 31-year-old, who was at Sandwich as a fan to see Curtis win in 2003. This will be the first Open Championship DeChambeau has played since piling on 40lbs to hone a big-hitting approach that resulted in him winning the 2020 US Open.
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