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Open Championship

# open-championship - Monday 23 July, 2012

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In pictures: the hipster Olympics… yes, that’s a thing now

Events included beard tweaking, tote bag sack races, skinny jeans tug-o-war, chunky-framed spectacles throwing.

# open-championship - Sunday 22 July, 2012

Els takes Open shocker as Scott collapses

The Australian golfer suffered a heartbreaking late collapse, dropping four shots in four holes.

The Open 2012: Jittery start for leader Scott, bunker blues for Woods

Meanwhile, Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell is now five shots off the lead.

McIlroy on McDowell: ‘I’m going to be sitting in front of the TV and pulling for him’

The Northern Irishman also says he must “stay patient”.

# open-championship - Thursday 19 July, 2012

The Morning Score: Thursday

The 141st Open Championship is under way and we’ve got four more stories to kick-start your day.

# open-championship - Wednesday 18 July, 2012

The Morning Score: Wednesday

Rovers facing an uphill struggle in Lithuania, doping at the Tour de France plus lots and lots of money for our favourite languid Swede.

# open-championship - Monday 16 July, 2012

I never drank from Claret Jug – Clarke

‘I thought about it a few times, but I couldn’t get myself to do it.’ He may have sipped from the replica once or twice though.

Woods to play alongside Garcia and Rose at Royal Lytham

Rory McIlroy, meanwhile, is in a strong group with PGA Championship winner Keegan Bradley and Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa.

# open-championship - Tuesday 19 June, 2012

US Open champion Webb Simpson could miss Open Championship

The 26-year-old’s wife is heavily pregnant and she says he’s unlikely to risk it.

# open-championship - Monday 24 October, 2011

R&A scraps some of golf’s most annoying rules

Three-time major winner and occasional rules martyr Padraig Harrington thinks the changes will make it a little easier for players to focus on the greens.

# open-championship - Tuesday 16 August, 2011

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So near, yet so far: the seven most heartbreaking major cameos

Jason Dufner isn’t the first major challenger to burst from obscurity only to fall at the final hurdle; major championship history is littered with bolt-from-the-blue contenders who stopped just short of fulfilling their life’s ambition.

# open-championship - Tuesday 26 July, 2011

Clarke dismisses talk of financial trouble

Open champ has shrugged off claims by his manager, Chubby Chandler, that he was in increasingly severe financial difficulty prior to his victory.

# open-championship - Tuesday 19 July, 2011

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What Darren did next: 6 things to come for the Ulsterman

What are the possible directions that Clarke’s career could take following his success at the Open Championship? We investigate…

# open-championship - Monday 18 July, 2011

What does winning a Major championship mean for Clarke?

If golf wasn’t such a wildly profitable way to spend one’s time, Padraig Harrington would still be an accountant and Darren Clarke a roguish international playboy. Wait a second…

# open-championship - Sunday 17 July, 2011

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Open reaction: what Twitter thought of Clarke’s triumph

See what Tiger Woods, Piers Morgan and others had to say about the golfer’s Open Championship victory.

# open-championship - Wednesday 13 July, 2011

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The Open favourites, and the things you never knew about them

One has never finished a book in his life, another has starred in Entourage and one may, or may not, have played in goal for Galway United…

# open-championship - Tuesday 12 July, 2011

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The best of The Open: Tiger enters the record books in 2000

Tiger Woods misses this year’s Open Championship through injury, but his first win back in 2000 remains in the memory.

# open-championship - Saturday 9 July, 2011

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The best of The Open: Harrington retains his title

With The Open Championship teeing off at Sandwich next Thursday, The Score starts looking back at the best video clips from past tournaments.

# open-championship - Tuesday 5 July, 2011

I'm Out

Don’t call it a comeback: Tiger confirms his withdrawal from The Open

Leg injury rules the 14-time Major winner out of next week’s tournament at Sandwich.