Brian Harman will lose the British Open on Sunday.
Harman scored 2 under 69 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England on Saturday, enough to maintain his massive five-shot lead in the last major championship of the year. He fended off a historic effort from Jon Rahm, who set a course record at 63 the previous Saturday, and recovered from two early bogeys to maintain his large lead over the rest of the field.
Harman, 36, with just two PGA Tour wins to his credit, is finally close to winning a major championship.
“It would be foolish not to imagine that [a win]and I’ve thought about winning majors my whole life,” Harman said. “That’s why I work so hard and why I practice as much as I do and why I sacrifice as much as I do.”
“If this is going to bear fruit for me tomorrow, it just has to be about golf. It has to be about execution and just staying in the moment.”
Harman will tee off with Cameron Young, who parried a birdie out of the bunker on Saturday afternoon on the 18th to put himself in the final group. Rahm will tee off with Viktor Hovland 10 minutes ahead of them. Young is yet to win on the PGA Tour, although he has had four top 10 finishes so far this season – including a T6 finish in his most recent appearance at the John Deere Classic. Rahm is targeting his third major championship win and fifth overall title this season after winning the Masters earlier this year.
Harman’s victory is far from guaranteed. But if Rahm, Young or anyone else wants to overtake him and secure the Claret Jug, it will take a spectacular round and a little help from Harman to make it happen.
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Brian Harman has a 5-stroke lead over the rest of the field with 18 holes to go at the British Open. (MB Media/Getty Images)
Where to stream the British Open?
With NBC broadcasting the heart of this year’s tournament, you can easily stream most of the British Open on Peacock. If you have USA as a channel through a cable package or live TV streaming service, you can stream USA Network coverage at USANetwork.com. Don’t have USA Network on your regular TV schedule or don’t have access to your local NBC channel? Here’s what we recommend for streaming the British Open 2023:
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