Rory McIlroy won the 2014 British Open at Royal Liverpool.  He built a big lead over the first three days, and then held off final-round charges by Sergio Garcia and Rickie Fowler to win by a couple of shots.

Here is a boring video montage put out by “The Open Championship”.

And here is actually something that might be interesting. ESPN’s Sport Science takes a look at how Rory can hit his driver so far despite being a little lacking in, ummm…stature.

Rory’s swing is pretty much exactly as Ben Hogan described the golf swing in his famous book “Five Lessons: the Modern Fundamentals of Golf“.

A few weeks ago my friend Henry wrote a great Facebook Status about the Stages of Golf to which I think every golfer can relate.

The other day I was trying to find a good tip or something funny online and stumbled upon a somewhat similar article written for the New Yorker by Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David. I think if you ever watch Curb you can visualize Larry acting out every one of his stages with his pseudo-grin on his face as he yells and curses. This article could be a great episode of Curb.

You can find the article here.

I am calling it now.  Mo Martin’s approach shot on the 72nd hole is the shot of the year in golf. It was the perfect shot at the perfect time, and with the shot she won the 2014 Ricoh Women’s British Open.

Here is the shot.

With the win, Mo went from 362nd to 52nd in our Power Rankings.

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