Thomson walks tall with British Open ace
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 [July 17, 2021]
SANDWICH, England (Reuters) -
England's Jonathan Thomson, the tallest player on the European PGA
Tour, made a hole-in-one at the par-three 16th in the British Open
second round on Friday.
The six foot nine 25-year-old, who recovered from leukaemia as a
child, sent his tee shot straight into the cup at the 162-yard hole
before raising his arms to the skies in celebration.
Thomson, ranked 889th in the world, also birdied the 17th to move to
two under par and barring a collapse on the last hole will
comfortably make the halfway cut in his first major championship
appearance.
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At the same hole in the 1967 Dunlop
Masters, England's Tony Jacklin, the former British and U.S. Open
champion, made the first hole-in-one shown on live television.
(Reporting by Ed Osmond, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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