‘The best round of golf I’ve seen’

As one of the world’s leading golf coaches Butch Harmon has now helped guide four of his students towards a Claret Jug, but for the veteran American, of all the feats he has seen performed at the Majors, Phil Mickelson’s final-round dash to the most famous prize in golf beat the lot.

“The best round of golf I’ve seen,” Harmon said of Mickelson’s closing five-under-par 66 at Muirfield on Sunday, which blew past Tiger Woods and the rest of the chasing pack and then reeled in both overnight leader Lee Westwood and on-course front-runner Adam Scott to secure an Open Championship at the left-hander’s 20th attempt.

“I said when Greg Norman won in 1993 that that was the best round of golf I’ve seen, but I think this one tops it. The wind blew harder than it has and to go around when you knew you had to do it is absolutely brilliant.