TV’s Boxall recalls pain of his Open big break

THIS week’s British Open will eventually be remembered for who wins it, rather than who is injured and misses it.

Just as the 1991 championship at Royal Birkdale is remembered mostly for Ian Baker-Finch’s victory and not the fact that England’s Richard Boxall, just two strokes off the lead at halfway, broke his leg in the third round.

Now a TV commentator, it was only last year that Boxall saw a replay of the harrowing incident that put him out of golf for almost a year.