About this episode

The episode discusses the events and controversies surrounding the 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.

Today's episode makes no excuses for focusing entirely on a pretty eventful week at the 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. The event delivered triumphs and heartaches, arguments and controversies, rulings and reliefs plus a host of associated storylines. In the heat of battle one man took it upon himself to go win it while others faded over the closing stretch. Is Ryan Fox the most relatable winner in recent times? Was Bryson unfairly penalised? Did Scottie get one of the "luckiest" r...

People in this episode

Hosts: Martin, Des

Topics covered

• Open Championship
• golf
• sports controversies
• triumphs and heartaches
• player performance

Keywords

• Open Championship
• Royal Birkdale
• Ryan Fox
• Bryson
• Scottie
• golf
• sports

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Royal Birkdale

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