2023 British Open: A fan hitting golf balls on the Royal Liverpool beach became the unlikely star of Thursday's broadcast
As anyone obsessed with the sport will tell you, once you get bit by the golf bug, it’s an impossible itch to fully scratch. You begin to think of your day in terms of when you can get out to the course or the range.
For one fan who posted up on the beach adjacent to Royal Liverpool GC in Hoylake, this meant getting in some work while The Open Championship was heating up across the way.
The broadcast cameras at The Open caught this hero taking some hacks and couldn’t get enough of him. And you’ve really got to give him some credit, too. He couldn’t have picked a better opportunity for his game to get noticed by the sport’s power brokers (amateur tournaments and lower circuit tours notwithstanding).
Golf.
It gets us all. pic.twitter.com/OVGWOkpkUB
— The Open (@TheOpen) July 20, 2023
Golf fans certainly understood where he was coming from, even if they didn’t love all the attention he was taking away from the actual major tournament taking place.
The Open Championship: Live leaderboard, Schedule, Tee times