The Open recap: Tiger thrills, Spieth and Rory challenge but Molinari prevails

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4.4 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Kyle Porter and Chip Patterson recap an incredible Sunday and weekend from Carnoustie. Tune in as the guys discuss The Open proving why its up there with The Masters as the best major championship (2:30), what to make of Tiger Woods' performance (5:00), props for Francesco Molinari as a worthy champion at the top of an all-time leaderboard (19:00), what went wrong for Jordan Spieth and what it means for the rest of the season (28:00) and how Rory McIlroy impressed with his ability to grind when not everything was going his way (39:45). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	back here on the first cut podcast is Monday morning after the open championship the 147th
0:16.0	open championship uh and I mean we are just now sort of piecing together what was potentially one of the best
0:25.5	final rounds of a major that we might see in our lifetimes. You know, I saw a friend of the podcast,
0:32.5	Brendan Porath, throughout the 2011 Masters in terms of the how fast-paced it was and, you know,
0:40.5	everywhere you were turning.
0:42.2	Kyle, we had at one point a six-way tie for first place.
0:46.7	We had Tiger Woods and the solo lead over Jordan Speeth and Rory McElroy.
0:52.4	The major winners were everywhere.
0:55.1	Like, is it, is it possible for us to look at the open as a whole?
1:00.3	Or do you think that we need to start with Sunday?
1:02.3	Because it felt like it was its own major championship just within one round.
1:08.3	Yeah, Sundays are, Sundays are different.
1:14.6	I've, I've told people this, like, when you're at an event and it's Sunday, like it just, it's not the same as the rest of the event. And it's, it's hard to explain
1:20.5	because you're like, well, it's the same course and it's the same players and whatever. But everything
1:25.6	just feels so different.
1:29.5	There's just like a heaviness to it.
1:33.9	And I got to be honest, there was like a 90-minute stretch on Sunday where I just had,
1:35.6	I was just, I was home by myself.
1:39.2	I just had my, you know the Elmo Giff with the fire in the background?
1:39.8	Yes.
1:42.0	That was me at home. Just two arms in the air and just flames engulfing everything behind you
1:46.4	pretty much that's what it felt like because it and it's so it's so hard to like grasp everything
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