As the drama unfolded on the course, Young unpacked his locker in the Birkdale clubhouse. <\/p>\n
The 29-year-old American had already done all he could on the links and set a target of nine under par, which he hoped the rest could not catch. <\/p>\n
“I thought 10 [under par] had a decent chance,” he said after bogeying the final hole.”<\/p>\n
Young did not fancy watching the action. Instead he said he would grab a bite to eat in the players’ restaurant before “packing up my locker just for efficiency’s sake”.<\/p>\n
He might have had a Claret Jug – the prize given to the Open champion – to pack and take home, too. <\/p>\n
But, as he prepared on the range for a potential play-off, he could hear exactly what Fox had done on the nearby 18th by the cacophony of celebratory cheers. <\/p>\n
Young made the most of the scoreable early conditions in Sunday’s final round, shooting a six-under 64 which looked like it might be enough to finish clear of the chasing pack.<\/p>\n
Young started his final round more than two hours before the final group went out and, playing in a lighter wind, threatened to shoot a fourth record-equalling round of 62 this week.<\/p>\n
A poor bogey on the 18th – driving into a fairway bunker and hitting the lip of it with his second shot, finding the greenside sand with his third, before almost chipping in – ended his chances of adding to that history.<\/p>\n
While it ultimately damaged his hopes of becoming a first-time major champion, Young pointed to a one-over 73 on Saturday as the reason why he fell short.<\/p>\n
“I walk away feeling like I could have won with a C-plus day in there,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Not that the golf was bad, but the first couple days were fine. If you give those a high B, a C-plus day, and really an A day today, I ended up feeling I had a chance to win with not everything I’ve got.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the drama unfolded on the course, Young unpacked his locker in the Birkdale clubhouse. The 29-year-old American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}