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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland | From midnight golf and lava clubs to the British Open

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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland | From midnight golf and lava clubs to the British Open

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — He comes from a place where they play midnight golf and the most precious item in the bag is a rusty “lava club,” used to hit balls off rock formations strewn across the fairways.

Haraldur Magnus will become the first Icelandic man to play in any of golf’s four majors at the British Open this week, and his story sums up the charm of the oldest championship in the sport.

“Haddi,” as he prefers to be known, is ranked 1,089th and plays in the Nordic Golf League — basically the third tier of European golf comprising tournaments in Scandinavia and Spain. Sometimes there are only a handful of spectators, compared to the daily crowds of 40,000 that are expected at Carnoustie from Thursday, and he has earned less than 4,000 euros ($4,650) in prize money this year.

Magnus was among the first players to tee off in final qualifying for the British Open at Prince’s Golf Club in southern England in early July. After posting a score of 2 under, he set the alarm on his phone, turned it off and took a nap.

He awoke to some good news: He would be playing at Carnoustie alongside the likes of Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy. “It’s been a little overwhelming,” said Magnus, speaking on the practice range at Carnoustie, where he hit shots next to 2016 British Open champion Henrik Stenson. “But overall it’s been fantastic.”

It’s a short flight to Scotland from his home in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, but Carnoustie — with its perfectly manicured fairways and immaculate greens — is another world for Magnus.

“We’re just way up north on a frosted island, so it’s as good as it can get and you have to give credit to all the green-keepers,” Magnus said. “We have some unique courses, some lava-surrounded courses. “Many amateurs have 13 clubs in their bag and a lava club. It’s an old, rusty thing which they can hit off rocks.”

With its long summers and dark winters, the golf season in Iceland lasts only five months.

“But we have a month where it’s 24-hour daylight and have tournaments where international tourists tee up at midnight — midnight golf,” Magnus said. “Those five months you can really take advantage of practicing. It’s really growing.”

So much so that Magnus and his coach, Snorri Olafsson, say golf is the second most-popular sport in the country, behind soccer. Nearly 10 percent of the population of about 330,000 is registered to a golf club — there are about 20 18-hole courses and between 40-50 9-hole courses — and a recent survey said up to 80,000-90,000 people occasionally played the sport.

Iceland has provided one of the feel-good stories in sports in recent years by being the least populous nation to qualify for a European Championship (2016) and then a World Cup (2018) in soccer. The fans’ war-like “thunderclap” chant became known worldwide.

Magnus’ golfing exploits briefly took the soccer team off the front pages but there’s a link between them, as is often the case in a country where everyone seemingly knows everyone: His former golf coach was the brother of the country’s most famous soccer player, Gylfi Sigurdsson.

So what can we expect from Magnus, who took up golf at the age of 15 after quitting soccer, describes himself as “a bit of a loner” and says he is “uncomfortable” with the added exposure of recent weeks?

“Par golf. Steady. Don’t get much reaction from him,” Olafsson said. “We have all types in Iceland, but he is level-headed. You never know if he is 8 under or 8 over.

“He’s fun to watch and hopefully the putter gets hot.” Most of all for Magnus, this is perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime experience and he intends to enjoy it. His dream is to play on the European Tour — he has twice tried to qualify for the second-tier Challenge Tour via Q School — and one day the PGA Tour.

So no wonder he was looking forward to playing nine holes with European Ryder Cup players Lee Westwood and Nicolas Colsaerts in practice on Wednesday, before taking what he acknowledges will be a nerve-racking first tee shot on Thursday. He plays the first two rounds alongside Zander Lombard and James Robinson.

“I don’t really care that I’m the first one (from Iceland),” Magnus said. “I think it’s awesome to be in a major but whether there had been zero, 15 or 100 before me, it doesn’t matter.

“Hopefully this will be an encouragement. We have a lot of good, young kids and I don’t think I’ll be the last one to play a major from Iceland.”

By STEVE DOUGLAS , Associated Press

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British Open projected cut line: Tiger Woods safely on right side at Carnoustie

The British Open, which boasts a full 156-man field, utilizes a pretty standard cut rule. The top 70 and ties make it through to the weekend. At Carnoustie this week, it looks like that number will come in somewhere around 2-over. The wind, of course, could turn unexpectedly and start bumping scores higher but that is not in the forecast at the moment. It will pick up in the afternoon, but it’s not supposed to be a dramatic difference. Rain has softened the course a bit and could yield to lower scores that move the number up a stroke or two.

The top draw near the cut line on Friday morning is the biggest draw in the history of the game. Tiger Woods, who posted an even-par 71 on Thursday, started his second round with two bogeys in his first three holes. That promptly put him on the wrong side of the cut line. Woods has missed five of his last seven major championship cuts but of course some of those came as he played with a messed up back.

Woods missed the U.S. Open cut a month ago by a good margin and that was always a possibility with Shinnecock and a USGA setup. But an MC this week would have been much more disappointing and shocking. Carnoustie, baked to a crisp, was set up well for Tiger to post some numbers. His history on the links and his creative mind for it make him well-suited for this major. It’s also the one that is most benign for the aging vets, as has been demonstrated over the past decade.

So Tiger gassing up the jet for the States on Friday would have been a massive disappointment. Fortunately, he has righted the ship following those two early bogeys. He backed them up immediately with two birdies, one on the fourth and another coming via a long putt that you just can’t consistently count on.

So Tiger is back to two clear of the cut line. Justin Thomas, however, took a big nosedive to the wrong side of the cut line with three straight double bogeys on Nos. 6 through 8. He went from the first page of the leaderboard to a tie for 100th place. That’s no good for the No. 2 player in the world.

The Open Projected Cut

Place Player Score Today Thru

Place Player Score Today Thru

T1 Rory McIlroy -5 -3 14 T1 Kevin Kisner -5 - 7:53 AM T3 Tommy Fleetwood -4 -5 16 T3 Thorbjorn Olesen -4 -3 14 T3 Zach Johnson -4 -2 13 T3 Erik van Rooyen -4 - 6:47 AM T3 Tony Finau -4 - 10:32 AM T3 Zander Lombard -4 - 10:54 AM T9 Francesco Molinari -3 -2 11 T9 Jason Day -3 -3 11 T9 Brandon Stone -3 - 8:37 AM T12 Kyle Stanley -2 -3 9 T12 Matthew Southgate -2 - 6:47 AM T12 Danny Willett -2 - 6:58 AM T12 Sung-hoon Kang -2 - 8:48 AM T12 Pat Perez -2 - 9:15 AM T12 Jon Rahm -2 - 10:10 AM T18 Ryan Moore -1 2 F T18 Adam Scott -1 -1 13 T18 Li Haotong -1 -1 11 T18 Lucas Herbert -1 -3 8 T18 Brooks Koepka -1 -2 6 T18 Luke List -1 - 6:58 AM T18 Kevin Chappell -1 - 7:20 AM T18 Patrick Cantlay -1 - 7:42 AM T18 Thomas Pieters -1 - 7:53 AM T18 Yuta Ikeda -1 - 8:15 AM T18 Webb Simpson -1 - 8:26 AM T18 Kevin Na -1 - 9:26 AM T18 Matt Kuchar -1 - 9:48 AM T18 Rickie Fowler -1 - 10:10 AM T18 Chris Wood -1 - 10:10 AM T33 Brendan Steele E 3 13 T33 Chez Reavie E 2 10 T33 Tiger Woods E E 5 T33 Fabrizio Zanotti E -1 4 T33 Martin Kaymer E E 1 T33 Andy Sullivan E E 1 T33 Eddie Pepperell E - 7:20 AM T33 Paul Dunne E - 7:31 AM T33 Brian Harman E - 8:15 AM T33 Si Woo Kim E - 8:26 AM T33 Gary Woodland E - 8:48 AM T33 Yusaku Miyazato E - 8:48 AM T33 Xander Schauffele E - 10:32 AM T33 Sean Crocker E - 11:16 AM T47 Cameron Davis 1 1 F T47 Lee Westwood 1 E 17 T47 Marc Leishman 1 E 14 T47 Alexander Noren 1 2 13 T47 Charley Hoffman 1 1 13 T47 Michael Kim 1 -1 10 T47 Matt Wallace 1 -2 7 T47 Abraham Ancer 1 1 4 T47 Austin Cook 1 - 7:31 AM T47 Satoshi Kodaira 1 - 8:04 AM T47 Nicolai Hojgaard 1 - 8:26 AM T47 Stewart Cink 1 - 8:37 AM T47 Justin Rose 1 - 9:59 AM T47 Jordan Spieth 1 - 9:59 AM T47 Louis Oosthuizen 1 - 10:21 AM T47 Alexander Bjork 1 - 10:43 AM T47 Haraldur Magnus 1 - 10:54 AM T47 Gavin Kyle Green 1 - 11:16 AM T65 Byeong Hun An 2 E F T65 Henrik Stenson 2 3 16 T65 Ryuko Tokimatsu 2 1 10 T65 Ian Poulter 2 E 6 T65 Cameron Smith 2 E 6 T65 Jordan Smith 2 -1 4 T65 Brett Rumford 2 -1 3 T65 Mark Calcavecchia 2 - 7:09 AM T65 Phil Mickelson 2 - 8:04 AM T65 Ernie Els 2 - 9:04 AM T65 Chesson Hadley 2 - 9:04 AM T65 Adam Hadwin 2 - 9:04 AM T65 Bernhard Langer 2 - 9:37 AM T65 Paul Casey 2 - 10:21 AM Projected Cut:+2 T79 Sam Locke 3 2 F T79 Tom Lewis 3 -1 F T79 Beau Hossler 3 1 10 T79 Dylan Frittelli 3 3 8 T79 Tom Lehman 3 -1 8 T79 Shubhankar Sharma 3 1 6 T79 Bryson DeChambeau 3 -1 6 T79 Hideki Matsuyama 3 -1 5 T79 Russell Knox 3 1 5 T79 Ryan Fox 3 E 5 T79 Bronson Burgoon 3 E 2 T79 Shaun Norris 3 - 7:09 AM T79 Shane Lowry 3 - 7:42 AM T79 Tyrrell Hatton 3 - 7:42 AM T79 Marcus Kinhult 3 - 7:53 AM T79 Rafael Cabrera Bello 3 - 8:04 AM T79 Julian Suri 3 - 9:15 AM T79 Retief Goosen 3 - 9:37 AM T79 Peter Uihlein 3 - 9:48 AM T79 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 3 - 9:59 AM T79 Rhys Enoch 3 - 11:05 AM T100 Daniel Berger 4 2 F T100 Branden Grace 4 1 11 T100 Justin Thomas 4 6 11 T100 Jason Kokrak 4 3 8 T100 Padraig Harrington 4 -1 7 T100 Bubba Watson 4 E 7 T100 Jason Dufner 4 E 5 T100 Ryan Armour 4 E 4 T100 Jazz Janewattananond 4 1 4 T100 Oliver Wilson 4 - 7:20 AM T100 Ross Fisher 4 - 7:31 AM T100 Hideto Tanihara 4 - 8:37 AM T100 George Coetzee 4 - 9:15 AM T100 Scott Jamieson 4 - 9:26 AM T100 Patrick Reed 4 - 10:21 AM T100 James Robinson 4 - 10:54 AM T116 Charl Schwartzel 5 2 F T116 Kelly Kraft 5 2 17 T116 Dustin Johnson 5 E 13 T116 Jorge Campillo 5 4 10 T116 Sergio Garcia 5 1 6 T116 Keegan Bradley 5 2 5 T116 Masahiro Kawamura 5 -1 4 T116 Sandy Lyle 5 1 1 T116 Emiliano Grillo 5 - 6:58 AM T116 Anirban Lahiri 5 - 9:48 AM T116 Jhonattan Vegas 5 - 10:32 AM T116 Sang-hyun Park 5 - 10:43 AM T128 Alexander Levy 6 4 F T128 Matthew Fitzpatrick 6 5 15 T128 Russell Henley 6 8 15 T128 Todd Hamilton 6 2 10 T128 Matt Jones 6 2 2 T133 Charles Howell III 7 3 F T133 Jimmy Walker 7 6 16 T133 Danthai Boonma 7 - 7:09 AM T133 Kodai Ichihara 7 - 11:05 AM T133 Ashton Turner 7 - 11:16 AM T138 Shota Akiyoshi 8 2 11 T138 Brady Schnell 8 - 6:47 AM T140 Patton Kizzire 9 3 F T140 Mike Hendry 9 7 17 T140 Andrew Landry 9 - 8:15 AM T140 David Duval 9 - 9:26 AM T140 Lin Yuxin 9 - 10:43 AM T140 Marcus Armitage 9 - 11:05 AM T146 Jens Dantorp 10 5 9 T146 Nicolas Colsaerts 10 2 9 T146 Minchel Choi 10 2 8 T146 Jack Senior 10 2 3 T150 Jonas Blixt 11 5 F T150 Masanori Kobayashi 11 E 3 T150 Thomas Curtis 11 E 2 T150 Darren Clarke 11 - 9:37 AM T154 Brandt Snedeker 12 7 F T154 Grant Forrest 12 3 8 156 Jovan Rebula 14 6 15

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From midnight golf and lava clubs to the British Open

From midnight golf and lava clubs to the British Open

AP Published 8:44 a.m. ET July 18, 2018 | Updated 9:12 a.m. ET July 18, 2018

Haraldur Magnus of Iceland prepares to putt on the 10th green during a practice round ahead of the British Open Golf Championship in Carnoustie, Scotland, Wednesday July 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Super)(Photo: The Associated Press)

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) — He comes from a place where they play…

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MARTIN SAMUEL: Sport sucks… and that’s why McDowell had to get into the Open on merit this summer

Sometimes sport is bad. Regardless of the result, it was a shame that Jimmy Greaves did not perform in the 1966 World Cup Final for England. The same goes for Roy Keane and Paul Scholes with Manchester United at the Nou Camp in 1999, or Laurent Blanc then .

Alex Partridge, a member of Britain's four-armed rowing team, suffered a collapsed lung seven weeks before the 2004 Olympic Games. His place was taken by Ed Coode who, along with James Cracknell, had the idea of ​​writing Partridge's name on the front of their boat, so that he would always be the first to cross the line.

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Graeme McDowell said that missing the Open in Royal Portrush would have been unbearable

And so it was when they ended on August 21, eight hundredths of a second for Canada to claim gold.

It would also have been sucking if Graeme McDowell had not been present this summer for the Open at Royal Portrush in County Antrim.

McDowell is one of the reasons why the tournament returns to Northern Ireland after an absence of 68 years, recognizing the contribution of a trio of golfers – Rory McIlroy and Darren Clarke were the others.

Royal Portrush was considered too remote, too little in the space and infrastructure needed to organize a modern golf championship. Nevertheless, the successes and popularity of McIlroy, McDowell and Clarke put pressure on the R&A to offer a gesture of thanks.

In 2015 they saw the realization and sent the Open outside the mainland for the first time since 1951. For McDowell, born 39 years ago in Portrush, it would have been a proud moment.

But with the upcoming 2019 Open, I struggled to qualify. He is no longer in & # 39; the world's top 50, was not in the top 10 of Open 2018, did not play a member of the 2018 Ryder Cup team, nor did McDowell meet any of the other qualification criteria.

Even his victory over the US Open 2010 could not help – exemptions for the British equivalent lasted only five years. McDowell was gloomy about his predicament.

& # 39; It would be unbearable if I were not in that area & he said. & # 39; The most miserable week of my career. No amount of alcohol could keep me there if I wasn't playing. & # 39; It was at this point that public representations about a wild card entry for McDowell came about, if all else failed.

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Sport is stupid because it does not write the scripts we want and offers no freebies

How could Open continue in Portrush without its most famous sporting son? Haraldur Magnus from Iceland, the current world Nr. 1,369?

In the field of box office and emotion, yes. In terms of sporting credibility?

This sentimental sentiment was supported when on Sunday McDowell lowered a 30-foot leg on the 18th green in Hamilton to get a berth in the top 10 of the Canadian Open and reach Portrush via the right.

That last well left McDowell as eighth, the last well left McDowell as eighth. He was inside.

So sometimes it doesn't suck. But it would happen sooner if we let romance ignore merit. Because then McDowell would not necessarily have delivered the great drama that had developed in Hamilton, because there would have been no obligation.

A call would have been made advising him not to sweat out a qualification for Portrush, and he could have played in Canada without pressure and without the desire that drove his success.

And it would not have been better, because there is no story about the end.

McDowell will be at Pebble Beach this week because the US Open winners have been exempted for 10 years. I can also play on Winged Foot in New York next year. After that he is alone. He has to qualify, just like the rest of the field.

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That's why McDowell had to reach the Open on merit and not because of a handout

Angel Cabrera won the US Open in 2007 and played the tournament the decade after 2017, when his participation stopped. The 10-year exemption was no longer strong enough for Cabrera & # 39; s game to secure a place.

But if it returned, or if Cabrera won the 2019 US Senior Open, he would be back – David Toms is

And that's why the big senior events are important and why boring old rules matter and why the firm requirements of qualification matter, however heartless they may seem.

] Without disappointment, without sorrow, without failure, those moments of triumph would mean nothing.

McDowell making a 30 foot pits is a determined solution, McDowell allowed himself a sentimental suds in ancient times.

VAR the scourge of scorers

As far as England is concerned, VAR worked perfectly with the UEFA Nations League.

Jesse Lingard was offside for the unauthorized goal against the Netherlands – a fraction of five yards makes no difference, it's a black-and-white issue – and Callum Wilson made a mistake Manuel Akanji in the run-up to what would be been the winner against Switzerland.

But even if VAR is doing well, the fundamental error remains. VAR checks for possible infringements when a goal is scored. It does not need an invitation from the referee. It is not necessary to have suspicion. In other words, when the ball hits the net, the scream goes up: "Okay, how can we not allow that?"

That is why we see targets being excluded for offside margins that some linesmen would ever recognize – such as the short-lived winner of Manchester City against Tottenham in the Champions League. Heavy penalties for handball aside – VAR has few ways to restore that balance.

Severe penalties for handball aside – VAR has few ways to restore that balance. Few ways to achieve goals. So, if the linesman wrongly makes mistakes and the game stops – and then makes a mistake – that chance, that advantage, cannot be recreated.

So VAR works, it does exactly what was requested

The same number of games of the following season, with the most important competitions that amount to a deterioration of goals. VAR, yielded 1,017 and this season 1,019. The goals of La Liga decreased from 1,024 to 983 with VAR, Ligue 1 & # 39; s from 1,033 to 972. Of the biggest competitions in Europe, only the Bundesliga beats the trend this season. 877 goals were scored in Germany's last VAR-less campaign.

Nevertheless, the figures are largely going down. There were 1,072 goals scored in the Premier League last season. Sell ​​that come August.

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VAR technology works, but most competitions mean goal scoring

Konta-switch was not sexism

So when should they have played it "Given the planning problems caused by the weather at the French Open, what was so outrageous about Jo Konta's semifinals being moved to the smaller Simonne-Mathieu Court on Friday?

Tickets had already been sold to men men's finals that day at the main Court Philippe-Chatrier and Novak Djokovic & # 39; s match with Dominic Thiem did not end ls it was. Was there a women's semi-final inserted before the meeting of Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer, who knows how many of the other half would have been played?

There are honesty issues that should be considered here, as well as the responsibility for cardholders. If the entire Djokovic-Thiem had to take place 24 hours later, it could have ruined the final by leaving one competitor exhausted.

This is not about sexism, the Konta has suggested, it is about the logistics of the tournament organization. Court Simonne has a capacity of 5,000.

It is easy to cry sexism, but not every decision is a conspiracy. This year during the Masters there were questions about a professional women's event at Augusta National. The idea seems to be a long time ago.

Then there is the turnaround time needed to get the infrastructure in place and make the job look like one for the television camera & April.

Could a professional tournament for women not simply follow from men? Well yes and no. Yes, the course would already have been set up, with stands and galleries and television access, but the Masters is also a well-protected brand with a selling point of natural beauty.

His organizing committee would not want the outside world to see it look less than perfect and that would be inevitable with back-to-back tournaments of more than two weeks and thousands more pairs of feet running the walkway trample.

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The French Open of Francka semi-final schedule was not small for the ladies game

Hosting the Augusta National Women & # 39; s Amateur, like this year is at least a start – but what remains is a balanced tournament organization, the calendar and the demands of club members.] It is not as easy as it looks, just as it is not easy to organize a tennis tournament "What is tiring and a pity is that women have to sit down and justify their planning," said Konta.

But they don't. The organizers of the, and whether it worked for Konta or not, they did. This was not a trivial thing in the ladies game. It was the best of a bad situation.

Huge steps for Neville & # 39; s competent side

Within 10 minutes of England & # 39; s the first women's World Cup match it was clearly the enormous improvement ng under Phil Neville.

In the quarterfinals against Canada they had a passing completion rate of 46.8 percent less than perhaps blindfolded. In general, England was the 23rd best passerby in a 24-team tournament. Athletics can only get a team so far and it was clear that unless the technical aspects improved, the women of England would be matched, then overtaken by the rest of the world as happened to the men of England

Neville, and the determination of this group of players to improve their skills has prevented this. Does this mean that England will outperform their third place in 2015? Not necessary.

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It was clear from the first 10 minutes of the England-Scotland match that they had improved from the first 10 minutes of the England-match. & # 39; improved

The other nations have improved, as shown by Scotland. Sunday saw a tight game, when England won six in previous encounters. If Mark Sampson and his group had followed the same path from 2015, they would now travel backwards. Instead, not only does England make the chance to win this competition, they are progressing fast.

It wasn't the perfect start, but compared to four years ago, it was a whole new ball game.

Vettel should look in the mirror

Know one thing about Formula 1 – the sport is desperately seeking the end of the Mercedes procession and nothing would have given the organizers more pleasure than winning Ferrari in Canada on Sunday. So for Sebastian Vettel to lose first place to Lewis Hamilton (right) with a five-second penalty, his foul must have been clear and the penalty inevitable.

Simply put, Vettel made a mistake and tried to compensate in a way that was considered dangerous.

He ran away on the lawn while being chased by Hamilton and then came back and immediately took the racing line that forced Hamilton to withdraw to take the lead. That's not allowed.

Vettel's moans and resentments in the aftermath was also a waiver of responsibility. I lost the race for Ferrari, not for the organizers. They would have been his greatest allies if he had given them some leeway. Unfortunately not.

[I] The ICC continues to defend Zing bail, but if they don't fall when the ball hits the wicket, this is a significant technical failure and threatens to ruin the world championship.

be a spectacle that modern wickets burst in. blinking light when hit, but not if the device does not perform its primary function.

Unless this is addressed, it will distort a crucial time at a crucial moment, and it tournament will find it hard to rise above controversy. Sport will not always be fair, but it cannot be arbitrary.

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