Erik Anders Lang endured an extremely tough day on the course when he got the opportunity to play at Royal Birkdale, with the YouTuber posting a 94 around this year’s Open Championship venue.
Thursday’s opening round of The Open Championship saw Royal Birkdale refrain from playing at its most brutal.
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While the course looked extremely brown, and the ground was fast and fiery, the world’s best did not have to deal with the heaviest winds.
Those winds were seemingly saved for Lang, who played the course at some stage in the months before the final major of the year.
The score Erik Anders Lang shot around Royal Birkdale
Lang – who has a handicap of 5.8 – played from the back tees in Southport, and he may well rue that decision.
He was frequently left with well over 200 yards into par fours, while there was more than one occasion where he needed a driver and fairway wood before he could get a wedge in his hands.
With that, it is probably no surprise that Lang posted a score of 24 over par in a video on his Random Golf Club channel.
Remarkably, that included just two pars. Interestingly, his biggest problem seemed to actually come on the greens, with Lang clearly uncomfortable with his putting stroke in the wind.
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It is often the case that the wind has the potential to cause mayhem at The Open Championship every year.
Heavy winds can completely change how a links course is played. And it seems that the field this week will be hoping to not deal with conditions Lang faced during his round.
At one stage, he asked his caddie what he believes the winning score at The Open Championship would be if the players faced the same winds for all four days.
His answer was five or six over par.
Funnily enough, the last player to lift the Claret Jug after finishing The Open Championship over par was Padraig Harrington, back at Royal Birkdale in 2008.
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