TROON, Scotland — On Monday, several days before the start of the 2016 British Open at Royal Troon, Keegan Bradley and a couple of his golf buddies surreptitiously scaled the giant yellow scoreboard perched atop the sprawling grandstand at the 18th green. Bradley and his companions, whom he did not name, did a bit of dreaming.
“We put our names up on the leaderboard,” said Bradley, the 2011 P.G.A. Championship winner, who has yet to add a second major to his résumé. “It’s so cool seeing your name up there. But I probably shouldn’t have said that — going to get in trouble for that.