ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Trey Mullinax had a mad rush to get to Scotland in time for the 150th Open up Championship and had to contend with bent golfing golf equipment from the journey, but he continue to managed to make the minimize and carded a 6-under round Saturday.
Mullinax didn’t have higher expectations for final weekend’s Barbasol Championship. In point they had been so minimal for the levels of competition in Kentucky that he failed to take his passport. But the unforeseen triumph — as he won by a shot forward of Kevin Streelman — meant he experienced secured a location in The Open up at St. Andrews and then faced a hurry to get about in time to see the class in advance of his initial round Thursday.
What adopted was a hectic journey for Mullinax.
“So I experienced to go home [to Birmingham, Alabama], get my passport, go to JFK on Monday early morning, fly from JFK to Dublin, Dublin to Edinburgh, Edinburgh below,” Mullinax reported. “I got here at like — I remaining my house at 5:00 a.m. Monday morning, bought here at 8:00 on Tuesday, and then teed off at, like, 1:30 for 18 holes.”
He explained he experienced in the region of three hrs of rest Sunday, then “about none to zero on Monday.” But he managed to make the slash, coming via the initially two times at degree par.
This rating was designed even a lot more outstanding by the realization that he had been taking part in by the initially two rounds with a putter that experienced been bent out of shape by 2 degrees throughout the transit from the U.S.
“I had to get my stuff bent back simply because all my golf equipment had been out of my bag when I received right here,” Mullinax claimed. “A good deal of golf equipment were being bent, and so we experienced to regulate and stuff like that.”
His caddy — Julien Trudeau — and Mullinax only recognized the putter was misaligned on Friday evening.
“I really found out very last evening that my putter was 2 levels off,” Mullinax reported. “I realized it appeared amusing.
“I was getting to inform my caddie, gentleman, I am acquiring to forward push this a large amount. I was like, person, I never know what is heading on. The ball was not rolling like it was in Kentucky. Absolutely I didn’t get rid of it in two days. I uncovered out today that it was 2 levels off. I played a large amount far better these days.”
This was Mullinax’s 1st trip to the U.K. due to the fact 2014, when he performed in the Palmer Cup at Walton Heath.
“This is these exciting. Getting to hit shots I’ve hardly ever strike just before,” he explained. “My caddie, Jules, has been really ready for the pictures that we are likely to have to hit and the bump-and-operates you have to hit all around here. I experience pretty prepared, and I feel like my game’s excellent.”
