{"id":440402,"date":"2023-07-23T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440402"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:06:39","slug":"brian-harman-triumphs-at-the-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/brian-harman-triumphs-at-the-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Harman triumphs at The Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Brian Harman struck his opening tee shot of the final round of the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club today, someone from the crowd screamed, &#8220;Hit it in the bunkers!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brian Harman claims The Open Championship!<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the first U.S.-born golfer to win the tournament by at least six strokes since Tiger Woods in 2000 \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WZMDYJD7IX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WZMDYJD7IX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1683165544264921090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The American, who began the final round 5-stroke ahead, received a not-so-great welcome from the crowd in Great Britain, who cheered for his opponents.<\/p>\n<p>World number 26, Brian is the oldest 1st-time major champ at 36 years old since Spaniard Sergio Garcia, 37, triumphed in the Masters in 2017. He will get paid 3 million dollars for his victory at The Open.<\/p>\n<p>Before the beginning of the tournament, the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/canada\/betting\/\">betting sites<\/a> gave him a chance 125-to-1 to triumph, but he defined the odds and will get the trophy home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not be honest if I didn&#8217;t hear some things that weren&#8217;t very pleasant towards me,&#8221; Harman shared. &#8220;I heard them, but that didn\u2019t influence my game, and I gave even more to silence the crowd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brian Harman wanted to play baseball growing up.<\/p>\n<p>But at 5\u20197\u201d, his dad talked him into golf due to his size.<\/p>\n<p>Since then:<br \/>\n\u2022 US Junior Amateur at 16<br \/>\n\u2022 2x AJGA POTY<br \/>\n\u2022 2x All-American at UGA<br \/>\n\u2022 $29M in winnings<\/p>\n<p>In his first win since 2017, he just won his first major at age 36. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y8DC8jfN3u\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/y8DC8jfN3u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Front Office Sports (@FOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOS\/status\/1683165126449307649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Brian Harman struck his opening tee shot of the final round of the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":440403,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20534,18544],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[20535,20569,7308],"acf":{"announce":"The American won his 1st major trophy.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490470,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440402\/revisions\/490470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440402"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440402"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}