The 149th British Open Championship Preview
- Updated: July 12, 2021
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It’s the second week of July and that only can mean one thing: the season’s final major.
If you’re saying, “How can it be the final major? It seems like The Masters just happened.” Well, we feel you and think that the recent schedule change leaves much to be desired.
Nevertheless, it’s time for the world’s best to duke it out for the pretentious title of “Champion Golfer of the Year.”
After a year off (canceled due to covid), we are excited to watch a little links golf the way it was meant to be played: 60-yard putts and avoiding pot bunkers! Smell that? That’s the good stuff.
Here is some vital information to enhance your viewing experience from the couch during this week’s British Open:
Course
- 149th Open Championship
- Course: Royal St. George’s Golf Club
- Location: Sandwich, Kent
- Date: July 15-18, 2021
- Par: 70 / Yardage 7,165
- Purse: $12.5 Million / Winner $2.25 Million (2020)
- Defending Champion: Shane Lowry
Coverage
TV – Thursday-Friday:
- 1:30 a.m.-4 a.m. EST (Peacock),
- 4 a.m.-3 p.m. EST (Golf Channel)
- 3 p.m.-4 p.m. EST (Peacock)
TV – Saturday:
- 5 a.m.-7 a.m. EST (Golf Channel)
- 7 a.m.-3 p.m. EST (NBC)
TV – Sunday:
- 4 a.m.-7 a.m. EST (Golf Channel)
- 7 a.m.-2 p.m. EST (NBC)
We get the NBC team this week, which is never a bad thing. Dan Hicks and Paul Azinger in the booth are nobody’s first choice, but we are hard-pressed to find a better on-course team.
We get Feherty, Maltbie, Bones, and Notah Begay plus Sandsy bringing it home with the interviews.
Radio: Thursday-Friday, 2 a.m.-3 p.m. ET; Saturday-Sunday, 4 a.m.-2 p.m (SiriusXM 92)
Sleep Schedule:
Figure it out.
What to call this major:
We call it the British Open. Or we call it The Open. Or we call it The Open Championship.
It doesn’t matter to us, but be there are some people out there who take offense to what you call it and we prefer not to associate with those people.
Drink of the week:
We could go with any number of local favorite cocktails or brews – English Style of course.
But being that this is going to be a breakfast tournament, we would recommend a Bloody Mary, mimosa, or a screwdriver…or a mix of all three.
If you need a pick me up because you have to work, we’d go with the classic Irish coffee. Drink up and enjoy the golf.
Field (Top 15 in World Golf Rankings)
- 1. Jon Rahm
- 2. Dustin Johnson
- 3. Justin Thomas
- 4. Collin Morikawa
- 5. Xander Schauffele
- 6. Bryson DeChambeau
- 7. Brooks Koepka
- 8. Patrick Cantlay
- 9. Patrick Reed
- 10. Tyrrell Hatton
- 11. Rory McIlroy
- 12. Harris English
- 13. Louis Oosthuizen
- 14. Viktor Hovland
- 15. Webb Simpson
Who we’d love to see finish dead fucking last (DFL):
The field is a little more sparse than usual this year with the obvious gaping void left by the absence of Tiger, as well as a handful of players withdrawing for various reasons.
However, there are still plenty of players out there for us to pick an absolute worst.
This week we’re going to have to go with the hometown hero, Ian Poulter. There’s really nobody we’d less want to see win on any given week, let alone a major.
He dresses like a dweeb and has dealt us Americans a heavy dose of Ryder Cup devastation over the years.
So I think we speak for many of our countrymen and women when we say that we hope Ian Poulter shoots a pair of 85s and gets to spend the weekend in his nearby hometown and not at Royal St. George’s.
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