Open spots claimed, Molinari on vice-captaincy and Ian Baker-Finch on his 1991 Birkdale win
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Champion golfer of the year, Scotty Scheffler.
Hello and welcome to the Sky Sports Golf Podcast brought to you by Callaway and brought to you today from Burnham and Barrow Golf Club, one of four venues today for final qualifying for the 154th Open in just over a couple of weeks time. Dundonald Royal Sync Ports. and West Lanx on the doorstep of Royal Birkdale all hosting FQ today as well. I'll be talking to some of today's qualifiers a little bit later on in the podcast. We've also got two open champions for you coming up. One of them a champion indeed at Royal Birkdale. The first part of a fantastic chat I had with the champion golfer of 1991 Ian Baker-Finch is on the way. Plus we'll hear from Francesco Molinari, winner at Carnoustie eight years ago now, who last week was confirmed
as part of luke donald's vice captains again for adair manor next week first though to recap some of the golf that's taking place around the globe this last week victor hovland was eventually the winner in a monday playoff of the travelers championship taking down scotty scheffler the second time the world number one has lost in a playoff at a signature event this season on both occasions the week following a major championship as well but fantastic for victor great to see the norway fans out there in force doing the viking row with them as well Shetler was inches away from a 59 on the Friday, but his 60 now means he's the only player in PGA Tour history to record every score from 59 to 79 without a round in the 80s.
There's a quirky stat for you. a positive week for lots of the european names too not just victor shane larry with his best finish since that heartbreak at the cognizant back at the very beginning of march tommy fleetwood and nikolai hoygaard t14 bob mcintyre t10 and matt fitzpatrick fourth but i want to talk again about his little brother who finished t7 and that means that since he got his pj tour card alex fitz has played in four signature events and has had four top ten finishes. He's taken to the live stateside like a duck to water, which is great to see. Hyran Ryu won her first major title, the KPMG PGA Championship at Hazeltine by two shots. She was ten shots back of the first round leader, an eventual runner-up Ina Yoon after her opening round, but came charging back.
Nellie Korda finished in a tie for eighth, so it wasn't to be three in a row for Nellie, but you just know she'll have the bit between her teeth for the Evian and for Royal Lytham coming up very shortly indeed. Valentin Delon of France has secured invites to four of the next five major championships, as well as the Augusta National Women's Amateur by winning the Women's Amateur at Muirfield. The likes of her fellow countrymen, Celine Boutier, as well as Leona Maguire, this year's Solheim Cup captain Anna Norkvist and Georgia Hall have all won the Amateur as well. So it is a big, big deal. And speaking of Georgia Hall, we'll actually be hearing from her on next week's podcast. And Eugenio Chikara was the winner of the Italian Open on a week where records fell left, right and centre.
Firstly, on Thursday, Edoardo Molinari broke the course record at his home course in Turin with a 63. But the very next day, Matt Wallace broke it again with a 62. So the record lasted less than 24 hours for Dodo. But Matt gave his prize money for breaking the course record back to the golf club to help fund junior programmes there. So a touch of class from Wally. Well done to him. Joaquin Neyman after a strong showing at the US Open at Shinnecock looked to be the man to beat but he fell away on the Sunday which left Wallace and Shakara to duke it out and it was the Spaniard who came out on top. His third DP World Tour victory but more significantly that's now back-to-back victories after he won the KLM Open too and this win gets him into the Open Championship like lots of the guys in the field today are hoping to do and
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