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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Bob Harig

After a Magnificent Open, the Case for More Links Golf

Schauffele mastered the elements last week at Royal Troon. | Jack Gruber/USA Today Sports

TROON, Scotland – With all due respect to those players who left Royal Troon battered and beaten by the wind and rain of the past two days, there’s not much better in this game than golf played on a links course.

The British Open, again, showed how the game does not always have to be about bashing the ball unfathomable distances and stopping it on a dime on slick, brutally fast greens.

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