Open to finish on Monday for first time since 1988

Masters and US Open champion Jordan Spieth, playing alongside Johnson, remained at five under after three bogeys and three birdies in his 13 holes.

Oosthuizen, who won the 2010 Open at St Andrews, still had two holes to play and after a crucial par save on the 17th, the South African birdied the last from five feet to make it a three-way aggregate play-off on the second Monday finish in Open history. He shot 67 and shared the lead for the second straight major, and he has challenged in four of them since 2011.

Clearly, he’s still got some work to do when it comes to finishing at a major.

The British Open will be carried over until Monday due to high winds, organizers said on Saturday.

Jason Day also came up one shot shy of the playoff.

“If he had won, it would have been monumental build-up to the PGA Championship in August”, said Bob Dorfman, editor of the Sports Marketers Scouting Report.”The attention will be a little less astonishing now”. Why should it add more pressure in a negative way?

“I didn’t feel like I played that bad”, he said. “I wouldn’t say a hurricane, because I think that’s a bit extreme, but it resembled a tropical storm”.

This week the game of golf returns to “The Home of Golf” when the British Open is contested at The Old Course at St. Andrews.

Leishman is hardly the only one going low with the soft greens and slight wind. Playing partner Jordan Spieth managed a par to stay at five under.

Former Georgia Tech star Ollie Schniederjans is 6 under through his first 10 holes Monday, pushing his overall score to 10 under.

“I had a fantastic time in Australia”. I couldn’t hold it in.

“I kind of chipped my way around the golf course and never really seemed to get too far out of position, so I didn’t have to scramble too hard”.

That display of anger only served to release the champion within.

Most eyes were on 21-year-old Spieth.

And so did a familiar foe – Dustin Johnson.

The symbolism was lost on no-one.

By the time Spieth teed off on the 14th the galleries had grown bigger and the press contingent had quadrupled.

On 16, yet again, you could have thrown a napkin over Spieth and Garcia’s drives.

“We were watching on TV earlier and the ball was blowing all around”.

Golf is a serious business but on the 18th tee, a spot of mirth. And then Jordan was running to his ball.

The graduate of the University of Alabama – the same school that Graeme McDowell attended – had just begun his Open Championship birdie-birdie and had caught sight of his name at the top of the giant leaderboard.

Though the disappointment of missing out on a birdie at the ever-accessible last will grate, he signed for a round of six-under to stand on the shoulders of the leading trio.

Spieth and Hideki Matsuyama were the other players in the threesome.

On Friday evening, wearing the same pastel yellow jumper in which he won the first of his three Opens, way back in in 1987 at Muirfield, Sir Nick Faldo stood on the Swilcan Bridge to wave farewell to competitive golf for the final time.

“It’s surreal but I can easily believe that I shot the three scores that I shot”, explained Dunne. Momentum gets him off to a good start, but I just don’t see him winning.

This will be Woods’ third missed cut in the last four majors, continuing a slump that has dropped him to No. 241 in the world rankings. It’s just lucky that it happens to be in the biggest event in the world. They just weren’t going in the hole.

“No chat about the U.S. Open at all, as I wouldn’t imagine there would be, other than talking about the differences in the course”, Spieth said.