Newsday (N.Y.): J.B. Holmes, Shane Lowry share British Open lead after 36 holes

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — This is what the Open Championship, the British Open, is supposed to be: Birdies and bogeys, big names and no-names, and halfway through practically everybody in contention.

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Newsday (N.Y.): J.B. Holmes leads historic British Open at Royal Portrush

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — The opening round of an historic British Open began in the early morning Thursday with an emotional tee shot by Darren Clarke and finished in the early evening with J.B. Holmes in the lead by a stroke.

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At Riviera, J.B. Holmes survives the wind and Justin Thomas

By Art Spander
For Maven Sports

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — It was the day when southern California seemed more like eastern Scotland, the day the wind whistled down the coastal canyons and turned Riviera Country Club, the place known as Hogan’s Alley, into a nightmare of missed putts and blown leads.

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Newsday (N.Y.): J.B. Holmes finishes alone in third in two-man British Open

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

TROON, Scotland — J.B. Holmes finished third in a two-man race.

They say anything can happen in golf, that a couple of bogeys by one player and a couple of birdies by another can erase a lead in a few holes. But when Holmes began the final round of the British Open on Sunday, eight shots behind eventual winner Henrik Stenson and seven back of runner-up Phil Mickelson, he wasn’t thinking of a championship.

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RealClearSports: Golfer Holmes Rebounds After Brain Surgery

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

LA JOLLA, Calif. -- There were no guarantees. The last of the six doctors J.B. Holmes saw told him brain surgery probably would help him. Probably.

"Difficulty-wise, he said for brain surgery, it was only about a 1 out of 10,'' Holmes said. "That made me feel better. But it was still brain surgery. Scary at first."

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