TROON, Scotland — When you don’t have a tee time till 2:15 p.m. in the British Open, you can’t help but spend plenty of time watching friends and colleagues in the morning golf.
So when you get out there in the afternoon at Royal Troon and all of a sudden the wind is blowing harder and the rain is coming down more ferociously than what you saw in the morning, well, you have to fight the urge “to throw yourself a pity party,” Steve Stricker said.
“It goes through your mind, ‘I wish I could have played in the morning,’” he said after his 17 pars were marred by a quadruple-bogey 8 at the 15th as he shot 75 for an even-par 142 total.