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It’s interesting to compare Brunson’s just-as-excellent second shot to two other comics who hosted in Season 49 and Season 50: Nate Bargatze and Shane Gillis.

In the Par 3 Contest on the eve of the tournament, Poppy holed a 25-foot putt which sparked wild celebrations from McIlroy, Shane Lowry and everyone who was there to witness it.

Shane O'Neill, the interim principal at Dundee, said the "revised direction of travel" had been approved by the university court.

And when he arrives on the Antrim coast for the 153rd staging of golf's oldest major from 17-20 July, he will find the vast majority of the record 278,000 spectators will be supporting both him and Ireland's Shane Lowry, who won the title the last time it was held on the Dunluce Links in 2019.

The 2019 tournament proved a memorable occasion as Ireland's Shane Lowry won his first major title.