GETTING READY American Dustin Johnson plays his tee shot on the 4th during a practice round for the British Open Golf Championship at Royal St. George's golf course Sandwich, England, Wednesday (Thursday in Manila). The British Open starts Thursday (Friday). He'd just hit what he thought was the ideal drive during his final practice round at the British Open, only for one of the bumps on the course's lunar-like landscape to throw it offline and into the rough. In some respects, this British Open will feel as though golf has returned to normal. "It's probably inevitable that we will have some problems," said Slumbers, who has already seen Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama and Zach Johnson, the 2015 British Open champion, withdraw after testing positive for the virus and Bubba Watson forced to pull out for being a close contact of a positive case.

Source: Manila Times July 15, 2021 16:29 UTC