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Titolo: OT Molinari...

vincitore del Brutish Open davanti a un'orda selvaggia, la Vallortigara a 2.02 (11cm in 88 giorni, non si cresce tanto neanche nel picco dell'adolescenza), Fognini e Cecchinato vincitori lo stesso giorno di un torneo ATP. La prima domenica dopo i mondiali ci mostra come si può star bene senza il calzio, almeno per un po'.
 
Pur con il Tour che fa dormire (la Formula 1 di default, mi sono addormentato tre volte nei primi cinque giri e ho girato sul golf, anche se Molinari doveva ancora partire)

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 vincitore del Brutish Open
 
Yorkshire Post
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MOLINARI SAVOURS REVENGE AFTER CARNOUSTIE BEATINGS
 
I just tried to not think about it and focus on hitting good shots. 
Francesco Molinari, who said his record around Carnoustie ‘was terrible’.
 
FRANCESCO MOLINARI hopes his Open triumph can inspire the next generation 
after becoming the first Italian major champion.
 
COMING OF AGE AT 18: Francesco Molinari is ecstatic after holing a birdie 
putt at the last hole at Carnoustie that would ultimately lead to him 
winning the Open by two shots to become Italy’s first winner of a major 
golf championship.
 
Molinari, who had two wins and two second places in his previous five 
starts this season, carded a nerveless closing 69 at windswept Carnoustie 
to finish eight under par, two shots clear of Justin Rose, Rory McIlroy, 
Kevin Kisner and Xander Schauffele.
 
Asked how big his win would be back in Italy, Molinari joked: “It depends. 
If Ferrari won [in F1] they will probably get the headlines.
 
“It was large news this last run of form. To achieve something like this is 
on another level. Hopefully there were a lot of young kids watching on TV, 
like I was watching Costantino (Rocca) in 1995 coming so close to winning 
at St Andrews.”
 
Molinari won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth in May and was second in 
the Italian Open the following week before following a tie for 25th in the 
US Open with an eight-shot victory in the Quicken Loans National and second 
place in the Travelers Championship.
 
The 35-year-old only arrived in Carnoustie on Monday lunchtime and walked a 
few holes of a course where he missed the cut on his Open debut in 2007.
 
“It’s one of the reasons why I didn’t play the Dunhill Links (which uses 
Carnoustie as one of three courses) in the last few years because I got 
beaten up around here a few times already in the past,” Molinari added.
 
“I didn’t particularly enjoy that feeling. It’s a really tough course. You 
can try and play smart golf, but some shots you just have to hit it 
straight. There’s no way around it. You can’t really hide.
 
“I knew I was coming in with some good golf, but my record around here was 
terrible. So that didn’t make me too optimistic about the week, but I just 
tried to not think about it and focus on hitting good shots day by day.
 
“To go the weekend bogey free, it’s unthinkable, to be honest. Playing with 
Tiger [Woods] was another challenge because of the crowds and everything.
 
“But I felt really good [yesterday morning]. When I came here, I felt I was 
ready for the challenge. Obviously conscious that it could have gone either 
way, but I knew I was going to do my best.
 
“I’m lost for words really. Incredible to do something like this, and very 
proud of what I’ve done.”
 
Woods held the outright lead at Carnoustie heading into his back nine as he 
looked to end his decade-long major drought, but dropped three shots in two 
holes and never regained momentum.
 
The 14-time major winner eventually finished three shots behind Molinari.
 
However, swept along by a massive gallery cheering his every move, this was 
the biggest indication yet since returning from a fourth back operation 
that Woods can compete at the highest level again.
 
He admits contending at the Open felt just like the old days and was 
delighted his two children finally got to see what all the fuss was about.
 
Daughter Sam, aged 11, and son Charlie, nine, were too young to see their 
father in his pomp, but they greeted him with a hug behind the 18th green.
 
“I told them I tried, and I said, ‘hopefully you’re proud of your pops for 
trying as hard as I did’,” he said. “It’s pretty emotional because they 
gave me some pretty significant hugs and squeezes there.
 
“I know that they know how much this championship means to me and how much 
it feels good to be back playing again.
 
“To me it’s just so special to have them aware because I’ve won a lot of 
golf tournaments in my career, but they don’t remember any of them.
 
“The only thing they’ve seen is my struggles and the pain I was going 
through. Now they just want to go play soccer with me so that’s just such a 
great feeling.”
 
Joint overnight leader Jordan Spieth focused on the positives after seeing 
his title defence end in disappointment with a 76.
 
The 24-year-old said: “I’m fine. When you put yourself in position it goes 
your way sometimes, it doesn’t go your way sometimes.”
 
Schauffele insists he will look back on a chaotic final day at Carnoustie 
as a positive experience despite missing the chance to win his first major.
 
The 24-year-old American said: “It’s just going to go in the memory bank as 
a positive. I had a chance to win a major championship.”
 
Schauffele was still in contention with two holes to play, needing to pick 
up a couple of shots to tie the lead, but a bogey at 17 left him requiring 
an unlikely eagle at the 508-yard last and that was a challenge too far. 
FRANCESCO MOLINARI became the first Italian player to win a major title 
after one of the most dramatic final rounds in Open Championship history.
 
Molinari, who had two wins and two second places in his previous five 
starts this season, carded a nerveless closing 69 at windswept Carnoustie 
to finish eight under par, two shots clear of Justin Rose, Rory McIlroy, 
Kevin Kisner and Xander Schauffele.
 
Playing alongside a rejuvenated Tiger Woods, Molinari followed 13 straight 
pars with a birdie on the 14th and finished a brilliant round in fitting 
style with another from just three feet on the 18th.
 
Rose, who had birdied the 18th in the second round just to make the cut, 
followed his recordequalling 64 on Saturday with a 69, while McIlroy 
recovered from a slow start with the aid of an eagle on the 14th to record 
his third straight top five in the Open.
 
Defending champion Jordan Spieth went into the final round tied for the 
lead with fellow Americans Schauffele and Kevin Kisner, but stumbled to the 
turn in 39 and Kisner managed one shot worse to throw the tournament wide 
open.
 
For much of the afternoon it looked as though everything was falling into 
place for Woods to pull off a barely believable victory, his first of any 
description since 2013, what would have been the 15th major of his amazing 
career and a first since the 2008 US Open.
 
Birdies at the fourth and sixth took Woods to the turn in 34 and, with the 
leaders crumbling, gave the 42-year-old a one-shot lead over playing 
partner Molinari and Spieth, who had double-bogeyed the sixth after hitting 
his second shot into a gorse bush.
 
But just when one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time seemed on 
the cards Woods failed to pull off a risky flop shot to get out of trouble 
on the 11th and ran up a deflating double bogey.
 
Another dropped shot on the next effectively ended his chances, but the 
drama was just beginning elsewhere, McIlroy following birdies on the ninth 
and 11th with an eagle from 35 feet on the 14th.
 
That vaulted McIlroy into a six-way tie for the lead and Rose joined the 
expanding group on six under with a tap-in birdie on the 18th, his fourth 
in succession on the closing hole. His second on Friday had been required 
just to make the cut on the mark of three over par.
 
Molinari broke out of the pack with his first birdie of the day on the par-
five 14th and up ahead McIlroy had to settle for joining Rose in the 
clubhouse lead after failing to birdie the last.
 
Schauffele, who had struggled to the turn in 40, birdied the 10th and 14th 
to join Molinari in the lead, but bogeyed the 17th and was unable to find 
the magical eagle finish required on the last to deny Molinari a deserved 
victory.
 
Spieth’s attempt to become the first back-to-back Open champion since 
Padraig Harrington in 2008 came to a miserable end with a closing 76 to 
finish four shots off the pace.
 
McIlroy was pleased to be back in the hunt for a major title despite 
ultimately missing out at Carnoustie.
 
The former world No 1, chasing his first major in four years, said: “It was 
great, just to be a part of it and hear the roars, Tiger being back in the 
mix – everything.
 
“There were a lot of big names up there and it was nice to be a part of it. 
For a while I thought Tiger was going to win and my mindset was, ‘go and 
spoil the party here’.
 
“It was cool, really cool. I have no regrets. I played the way I wanted to 
play this week and it gives me a lot of encouragement going into the final 
major of the year.”
 
McIlroy was left to wonder what might have been after settling for pars on 
the last four holes, but he feels his game is now in good shape.
 
The 28-year-old said: “I’m happy with how I played. I didn’t get off to a 
great start, but I hung in there, and I battled back. Just sort of ran out 
of holes at the end.
 
“I’ll look back at this week and be very encouraged about what I’ve done, 
and the golf that I played, and I feel like that will stand me in good 
stead for what’s coming up.”
 
Rose rekindled his love of the Open after finally surpassing his teenage 
heroics of two decades ago.
 
He finished in a tie for fourth as a 17-year-old amateur at Royal Birkdale 
in 1998 and had recorded just one other top 10 in 15 subsequent 
appearances, despite having won the US Open in 2013 and Olympic gold in 
2016. But the 37-year-old put that disappointing statistic behind him with 
his tie for second at Carnoustie.
 
“It just proves to me that I can play well in this tournament. That I can 
win the Open,” said Rose.
 
“When I’m in the hunt I enjoy it. I play my best golf. I don’t back away. 
It was great to get the crowd behind me. I hadn’t felt the energy of the 
crowd for a while in the Open. That was a real positive for me and it 
renews the love of the Open for me.”
 
Rose looked to be out of contention after playing his first 13 holes in one 
over par, but hit the pin with his approach to the par5 14th to set up a 
tap-in eagle and birdied the 18th for the fourth day running after 
contemplating holing his second shot on the 18th, rekindling memories of 
the way he pitched in for a birdie on the 72nd hole at Birkdale in 1998.
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