TROON, Scotland – Nick Faldo knows how to win on a links course – he has three claret jugs, after all – but even he was blown away by the standard of play in Sunday’s final round of The Open.
“We’ll never see perfection on a links like that ever again in our lives,” Faldo said by the clubhouse Sunday. “There’s no way. For them to match each other like that, it was links perfection. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
Henrik Stenson (20 under) and Phil Mickelson (17 under) finished 11 shots clear of third-place finisher J.