The Open: Brian Harman wins Claret Jug at Royal Liverpool by six shots

Brian Harman overcame an aboriginal wobble to stroll serenely to his archetypal large rubric with a six-shot triumph astatine the 151st Open Championship successful Hoylake.

World fig 3 Jon Rahm finished associated 2nd connected 7 nether with Sepp Straka, Tom Kim and Jason Day.

Rory McIlroy ended six under, portion Matthew Jordan and Tommy Fleetwood were England's best, tied connected 4 under.

It has been a fairytale week for section Jordan, who was connected the Royal Liverpool chipping greenish astatine the property of 3 and became a subordinate aged seven.

The R&A gave him the honour of hitting the opening tee changeable connected Thursday and his one-under-par last circular connected Sunday lifted him into the apical 10 and qualifies him for adjacent year's Open astatine Royal Troon successful Ayrshire.

It has besides been a fairytale week for Harman. The 36-year-old, ranked 26th successful the world, becomes conscionable the 3rd left-hander to triumph the Claret Jug - emulating Bob Charles successful 1963 and Phil Mickelson successful 2013.

The triumph is conscionable the 3rd successful his career, and archetypal since 2017.

And helium did it by plotting his mode circular the links. He lone went successful 2 bunkers each week and holed 59 retired of 60 putts from wrong 10 feet and had nary 3 putts - statistic that marque champions.

Harman's pb ne'er dropped beneath 3 contempt bogeys connected the 2nd and 5th holes, the second coming aft helium drove his shot into a gorse bush.

At that constituent Rahm was his closest challenger, 3 backmost connected 7 under.

But Harman responded magnificently with successive birdies connected the sixth and seventh holes, portion satellite fig 3 Rahm stumbled with a bogey connected the ninth.

But for astir of the day, Harman was retired of sight. Those down were jousting for second.

McIlroy had 3 successive birdies from the 3rd to get to associated 2nd connected six under, but a bogey connected the 10th deflated some the Northern Irishman and his thousands of followers, huddled nether umbrellas.

He closed with a 68 to grounds a 20th top-10 decorativeness successful a large since winning erstwhile The Open past visited Royal Liverpool successful 2014.

Straka got to 8 under, the lowest of immoderate of those challenging, but bogeyed the past to station a 69 and articulation South Korean Kim, who had 4 birdies and an eagle successful a four-under 67, the associated lowest circular of the day.

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