Brian Harman is one round away from becoming a major champion at the British Open. He started Saturday with a five-shot lead at Royal Liverpool and that’s how he ended it.
HOYLAKE, England — Brian Harman has two victories in 335 tournaments over 12 years on the PGA Tour. Now he’s one round away from one of the grandest titles of all.
Harman made it feel like an even larger deficit the way he’s been playing — on the grass, not in the pot bunkers, and rarely out of position. Harman was paired with Tommy Fleetwood, the local star who grew up some 45 minutes up the Lancashire coast in Southport and had a throaty English gallery on his side. They were roaring when Harman bogeyed the opening hole and then went long of the fourth green for another bogey. His five-shot lead suddenly was down to two.Harman hit a beautiful lag from 70 feet for a two-putt birdie on the par-5 fifth. He closed the front nine with a tee shot to 4 feet for birdie at the ninth.
He opened with three birdies in five holes — he had birdie chances of 10 and 12 feet on the other two holes — and looked primed to post the kind of score Rahm did earlier. But he didn’t make birdie the rest of the way, and the finish was particularly painful. McIlroy missed birdie chances from 8 feet, 12 feet and 10 feet.
Fleetwood had to settle for a 71, leaving him in the group at 5-under 208 — seven shots out of the lead — with Jason Day , Viktor Hovland , Sepp Straka and Antoine Rozner .Fleetwood rolled in a 10-foot birdie putt on the second hole and then didn’t make another birdie, dropping a shot on the 10th. The wind died late in the day, and no one managed to make a move at Harman other than Young.
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