The Open

Would that help him seal a Ryder Cup place? Just amazed how consistent he has been the last few weeks before winning yesterday. 15 straight pars!!
Reminded me of Sir Nick Faldo's win as he parred every hole at Turnberry to win. I think Molinari's scoring the last few weeks meant he'd scored -43 under par for his last few tournaments including yesterday

I would assume his form as well as his victory would see him into the side. If the 1999 team could include both Paul Lawrie (Open winner) and JvdV (infamous Open runner-up) then Molinari must be a cert.

yeah the open winner is usally included in ryder cup team

Althought i think that seeing he is on top of the ryder cup points at the moment may also count

http://www.europeantour.com/rydercup/points/index.html

Starts at Portrush in the morning, first time back in NI for donkey's years apparently.

Rory McIroy will want to impress his home crowd today. But he's had a bad start, he's through 3 holes and he's 5 over.

David Duval took so many shots on one hole that the scorers lost count, and his 13 at par 5 hole 7 has now been altered to a 14.
So that makes it a nonuple bogey. You don't see many of those.

As for Rory, he can take comfort in saying he's only one shot behind Tiger Woods.

I'd rather hear about David Duval than Tiger Woods any day. Woods think he's struggled? He doesn't know the half of it.

JB Holmes and Shane Lowry are the joint leaders. Lee Westwood and Tommy Fleetwood one shot back.

Rory McIlroy narrowly missed the cut (took 14 shots less than yesterday), Darren Clarke not much further back... Tiger Woods a fair bit further back... David Duval hit 78 (so 13 less than yesterday). Tom Lehman and Miguel A Jimenez were also in the bottom 10.

http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour...eaderboard

Lowry isn't the Irishman that I was expecting to lead the contest.

At 16 under par this years Open is Shane Lowry's to lose. He scored a new course record 63 shots in the 3rd round.

Tommy Fleetwood is in 2nd place at 12 under and is the only man who can possibly beat him.