It was ever so slightly surreal, but very definitely wonderful. A drizzly old summer’s evening under the big oak tree at Sunningdale, like many before and yet unlike any other. Stephen Dodd faced a 10ft putt at the back of the 18th green of the Old Course to win the Senior Open Championship presented by Rolex. And, without any fuss or fanfare, Dodd rolled it in. He nonchalantly waved his putter aloft, bumped knuckles with his playing partner, Jerry Kelly, briefly hugged his caddie and was then enveloped in an embrace by runner-up Miguel Ángel Jiménez, cigar in hand.
Jiménez, the 2018 winner, had just scored a 65 and posted the clubhouse target at 12 under par, having earlier in the week made an albatross. Kelly, Dodd’s nearest challenger after three rounds, was at the time leading the Charles Schwab Cup season standings on the PGA Tour Champions. Darren Clarke, who lifted the Claret Jug in 2011, was hoping to become only the fourth after Gary Player, Bob Charles and Tom Watson to win both The Open and the Senior Open. The Northern Irishman finished two behind, while Bernhard Langer, the defending champion looking for a fifth win, was fourth and Paul Broadhurst, the 2016 champion, fifth.
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