Day has a victory and a handful of top 10s this season, but he also missed the cut at the PGA Championship and the U.S. 1 has been playing solid golf for the first time in awhile.
Jason Day (7 strokes back): The former world No. The 30-year-old is still relatively new to major golf, with just nine previous appearances to his name. Sepp Straka (6 shots back): The Austrian (via Athens, Georgia) has two career PGA Tour victories, one of which came a week ago. He's got the game to win, but like Harman, will have the demons of coming up short in the past swirling through his head. He's finished second twice and was fourth at last year's Open. Tommy Fleetwood (5 shots back): The Englishman has done just about everything at the four majors but win one of them. I'm going to stick with it and just keep after it, and hopefully it'll pop one day." Who else is in contention? I don't know why it hasn't happened, but I'm not going to quit. "I think about it a lot, obviously," he said of his winless streak. But he also has a bunch of missed cuts, including a pair at the Masters and PGA Championship earlier this year. He has a pair of top 10 finishes at majors, including a T6 finish at last year's Open. That's a dry spell that will undoubtedly enter his mind if he's still in contention on Sunday. Harman has two career PGA victories, but none since 2017.
If someone is going to catch Harman, they'll have to do it battling the same wind and rain. The conditions will not be ideal for low scoring, but they also aren't looking like they will favor teeing off early vs. The forecast in Hoylake, England, calls for steady rain and wind throughout the weekend.
How will it play out? Here are the factors that will determine who becomes the 2023 Champion Golf of the Year: Weather Harman is now set up for an epic victory or an epic fall. No player had ever held more than a four-stroke lead heading into the weekend at Royal Liverpool. Only Tommy Fleetwood is within five shots of Harman, who has played virtually mistake-free golf over the course of the first two rounds. No, but if Brian Harman doesn't take home the Claret Jug, it will mean he coughed up the largest 36-hole lead any player has had in the 13 times the Open has been played at Royal Liverpool.Īt 10-under, Harman has run away from the entire field. Is the Open Championship over after only 36 holes?
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