Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. There’s no shame in losing when the winner played as well as Cameron Smith did.
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Rory ran into a buzzsaw
By all accounts, everyone at St. Andrews—and across the U.K.—was rooting for Rory McIlroy to win this 150th edition of the British Open. On any other day, it probably would have been McIlroy who lifted the Claret Jug, but yesterday Cameron Smith had other plans.