Harman overwhelmed when he won The Open 2023
Harman received three million USD when he won the Claret Jug cup at the oldest prestigious golf tournament this morning 24/7 Hanoi time.
At the finish line, all players entered the game from hole 1. Harman and compatriot Cameron Young were in the last group, right behind Jon Rahm and Viktor Hovland. When starting, Harman monopolized the top of the table with -12 points, Young -7, Rahm -6, and Hovland -5.
During the actual fight, Harman scored three bogeys, but still led all the way and no one closed the gap by more than three strokes, including all of the players ahead. After the second bogey at hole 5, Harman scored two birdies in a row and repeated this form on holes 13-15.
Considering those four birdies, the most impressive finish came on the 14th hole, when he still pinned the hole despite putting 12 meters away to go -12 and recapture the five-stroke lead like at the beginning of the game.
On hole 15, he continued to birdie and increased the lead to six strokes.
Closing day, the deepest negative round score at -4, belonged to Tom Kim, Adrian Meronk and world number one Scottie Scheffler. But for the score, Kim -7, Meronk even par like Scheffler. When he crossed the finish line, Kim stood across from Sepp Straka and Jason Day. At that time, group -7 ranked second in the leaderboard, Harman had five holes left.
After birdie on hole 15, Harman kept par for the rest of the period, thereby setting the championship milestone -13. Rahm finished -7 with birdie on hole 18. Thanks to that, the Spaniard was ranked T2 in T2 with Kim, Day and Straka Day. Thanks to that, the world number three. This group shared a bonus of $1.084 million.
The same final round +2 but in the end, Hovland stood at T13 (-3), Young T8 (-5).
Harman, 36 years old, has been playing golf professionally since 2009. He is a veteran on the PGA Tour, having won 339 tournaments in over 11 years with two cups and a combined prize money of approximately $29 million.
In 2014, thanks to winning the John Deere Classic cup, Harman was invited to The Open, also at Royal Liverpool and finished T26. That year, the championship went to Rory McIlroy. Since then, he has participated in seven more battles, including four eliminations, ranked T19 in 2021 and returned to T6 last year.
With the result, Harman became the third representative of the left-hander world to win The Open, after Bob Charles in 1963 and Phil Mickelson half a century later. In the swing of the left-hand world, the right hand leads, and the left hand gives the dominant force.
Quoc Huy
