At the 150th British Open, the 33-year-old from Northern Ireland is trying to end a drought, while the 24-year-old from Norway is looking for his first major.
EVERYTHING HAS LED TO THIS, it has read all week, always seeming to mean this birthplace of golf and the 149 preceding Opens, but maybe it pertained also to the four majors Rory McIlroy won and then the 29 ensuing majors he has not. Those 29 color his pursuit of a drought-destroyer at the world’s foremost course and event. Those 29 help make the meaning inflate and the noise boom.
What noise they made around 8 p.m. as the northern daylight persisted and the clubhouse chandelier came on. What a Sunday they promised with their lungs and throats. Both McIlroy and Hovland had reached that Road Hole and had reached, unfortunately, the road, either side of it. McIlroy bogeyed from back near the stone wall near the fans standing five or more deep, and Hovland parred by putting up the slope from the path beside the road.They drove the hell out of No.
“I think we were obviously both kind of doing our own thing,” Hovland said. “But as we saw, it was still pretty slow out there, and we had to wait on a lot of tee boxes.”“Yeah, Rory and [caddie Harry Diamond] are good guys,” Hovland said, “and we chatted it up a little bit. So it was a good mix.”
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