British Open 2016 Winners and losers at Royal Troo

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British Open 2016 Winners and losers at Royal Troo

The year's third Grand Slam event is in the books, though golf fans will be talking about for a while and rightfully so.Sorting through the four days' winners and losers at the 145th British Open atRoyal Troon:MORE: | Winners Bernie Williams Jersey Henrik Stenson (and Phil Mickelson). Simply put, Stenson was magnificent when the pre sure was its highest. He responded with 10 birdies to give Sweden its first major title. "It's going to take a little while for it to sink in," he said afterward. His run of four birdies over the final five holes was a thing of beauty, something Mickelson acknowledged:"He and I have been friends for a long time, and as much Mariano Rivera Jersey as I'm disappointed, I'm happy for him." An instant cla sic between two respectful competitors. Maybe it really is a gentleman's game. The Olympics. While most of the headlines have been about who's not going to play in Rio, the champion golfer of 2016 will be there, as will Spain's Sergio Garcia, who finished T5 at Royal Troon. Andrew Johnston. No one appeared to have more fun at Royal Troon than the 27-year-old Scot with the nickname "Beef." He smiled his way to an eighth-place finish in his second Open Championship (he mi sed the cut in his first). In short, he didn't win but his personality was winning.Hear hear, . The Open (@TheOpen) Losers Jordan Spieth C.C. Sabathia Jersey . All together now: "He broke par for the first time since the first round of the Masters." Technically, under par at Royal Troon isn't exactly"loser" territory, but the former world No. 1 and 2015 "it" player continues to struggle with consistency. Rain and wind oh, the wind can tend to do that to any player. But what about his performances in other tournaments?Too many loose swings raise as many questions. Rory McIlroy's muscles. In the midst of his 4-under 67 final round, McIlroy got a little body shaming from NBC Sports analyst Johnny Miller:"I think he overdid the weight room, personally. I dont think that helped him at all. Same thing withTiger Woods. You just get carried away with wearing the tight J.A. Happ Jersey shirts and showing off their, sort of, muscles."McIlroy muscled his way to a T5, but the only way he's going to silence critics of his game, not his physique is to win another major.MORE: Thomas Pieters' clubs. You know the old golf adage: "If you're not going to break par, you may as well break something." Pieters, while (mis)playing the par-4 11th hole, a.k.a. The Railway, at Royal Troon, he hit his seventh (yes, seventh) shot and promptly snapped his club over his knee and to sed the two pieces into the gorsedespite the fact that the shot found the green. Pieters eventually James Paxton Jersey took a quintuple bogey 9, which brings up another golf adage: "How'd I make a 9? Mi sed the putt for 8."
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