British Open, Royal Portrush
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The British Open at Royal Portrush has had its first hole-in-one. English golfer John Parry hit an 8-iron at the 192-yard No. 13 that landed at the front of the green, took a couple of bounces and hopped straight into the cup.
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Golf Digest on MSNBritish Open 2025: A controversial decision shows the tricky problem players face with the Rules of GolfTwenty minutes, dissecting a tenth-of-a-second sequence, to determine if a ball had shifted two dimples. The verdict would decide not just a two-stroke penalty but whether a man's integrity would survive intact.
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The British Open on Thursday at Royal Portrush ended with a five-way tie atop the leaderboard. Here are highlights and scores from the first round.
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Golf Digest on MSNBritish Open 2025: There was a bat (!) in the NBC booth and Kevin Kisner reacted exactly how we all wouldAs it circled over their heads, Hicks did his best to thwart it, flailing his hands around and laughing it off. Kisner, meanwhile, sunk deep into his chair. Then he took his sport coat and hid underneath it. Just as we all would:
The "Golden Bear" and 18-time major winner won the first of his three Opens and completed the first of his three career grand slams along the southeastern Scottish coast in 1966, then called the par-71 layout "the best golf course in Britain."
SportsLine's golf model ran 10,000 simulations of the final two rounds of the British Open 2025 at Royal Portrush
Harman won the 2023 Open and is contending again at Royal Portrush, but his introduction to links golf was rocky, at best.