Monday, 20 July 2015

Open

It's Monday, but the last day of The Open nonetheless - the first time that this has happened for 27 years. And, back in 1988, when I was the same age that Jake is now, it was won by the legendary Spaniard Seve.

Today's Monday finish was pretty exciting, bringing to a conclusion a memorable major. The BBC summary article can do it better justice than I can, but in particular it was a shame that Spieth missed that putt on the 18th and didn't make it into the four-hole playoff - I suspect that he would have been a hot favourite over four holes against any of the guys who did make it into the shootout.

As always, the BBC shows how golf should be covered on TV (we like the fact that Sky has so much sport coverage, but don't for a minute think that they get anywhere near the quality of the Beeb) and this year's tournament marked a few farewells - the last appearance in The Open for both Tom Watson and Nick Faldo, and if I understood his comments correctly, the last commentary from Peter Alliss (who kept reminding us that he first went to St Andrew's in 1948). If so, we'll miss him very much.