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I just showed my son this Trevino "Dr. Pepper Bottle story" yesterday...

Unbeaten with a bottle!

In his Tales of The Open episode, Trevino discusses a remarkable record he possessed at his local par-3 course, prior to turning professional.

Trevino’s burgeoning talents meant he was struggling to find willing opponents, prompting him to take drastic measures in an attempt to convince people to take him on.

“When you get to the point where you’re beating everyone, no one wants to play with you,” he explained.

“I had a par-3 course here in Dallas and the longest hole was 120 yards and the shortest hole was 50 yards. And I came up with the idea of playing with a (Dr Pepper) bottle. So it was a 32-ounce bottle, smooth, and the reason it was Dr Pepper is because it was a smooth bottle, Coca-Cola bottles are hourglass-shaped.

“So I took adhesive tape and I taped the neck and then I took a left-handed glove and I turned it inside out so I could put it on my right hand and then I could hold it. Then I would throw the ball up like you’re hitting a baseball with a bat, and I would throw it up and I would hit it.

“I could hit it high, I could hit it low. Now sometimes they would break, but not all the time. And I could hit it 100 yards, I could roll this ball 100 yards. Then I would turn it longways with the bottom of it and I would putt croquet-style, between my legs.

“How they handicapped me with the bottle is that I would play anyone, they could use their whole set, whatever they wanted. All I did was take the ties, in other words I got half a stroke a hole, so if I tied you on the hole I would win it.

“And I’m proud to say that I’m sitting here telling you that I played with this bottle for probably three years and never lost a match!”

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British Open tee times for Round 4

All times ET

2:35 a.m. — Darren Fichardt, Andy Ogletree

2:45 a.m. — Luis Masaveu, Young-han Song

2:55 a.m. — Darren Clarke, Tom McKibbin

3:05 a.m. — Ryan Fox, Hideki Matsuyama

3:15 a.m. — Aaron Rai, Rickie Fowler

3:25 a.m. — Tommy Morrison, Corey Conners

3:35 a.m. — Brooks Koepka, Marcel Siem

3:45 a.m. — Jeunghun Wang, Matthieu Pavon

4 a.m. — Thorbjørn Olesen, Jorge Campillo

4:10 a.m. — Matt Fitzpatrick, Richard Mansell

4:20 a.m. — Rasmus Højgaard, Kurt Kitayama

4:30 a.m. — Nicolai Højgaard, Jordan Spieth

4:40 a.m. — Jacob Skov Oleson, Alex Cejka

4:50 a.m. — Phil Mickelson, Robert MacIntyre

5 a.m. — Harris English, Guido Migliozzi

5:10 a.m. — Joaquin Niemann, Mackenzie Hughes

5:25 a.m. — Tom Hoge, Adrian Meronk

5:35 a.m. — Austin Eckroat, Brian Harman

5:45 a.m. — Davis Thompson, Si Woo Kim

5:55 a.m. — Matt Wallace, Abraham Ancer

6:05 a.m. — Max Homa, Jason Day

6:15 a.m. — Sepp Straka, Eric Cole

6:25 a.m. — Emiliano Grillo, Cameron Young

6:35 a.m. — Joe Dean, Ewen Ferguson

6:50 a.m. — Dean Burmester, Patrick Cantlay

7 a.m. — Gary Woodland, Minkyu Kim

7:10 a.m. — Padraig Harrington, Brendon Todd

7:20 a.m. — Calum Scott, Matteo Manassero

7:30 a.m. — Dustin Johnson, Collin Morikawa

7:40 a.m. — Jon Rahm, Alex Noren

7:50 a.m. — Laurie Canter, Chris Kirk

8 a.m. — Sean Crocker, John Catlin

8:15 a.m. — Daniel Hillier, Shubhankar Sharma

8:25 a.m. — Byeong Hun An, Sungjae Im

8:35 a.m. — Matthew Jordan, Justin Thomas

8:45 a.m. — Adam Scott, Shane Lowry

8:55 a.m. — Scottie Scheffler, Daniel Brown

9:05 a.m. — Justin Rose, Xander Schauffele

9:15 a.m. — Russell Henley, Sam Burns

9:25 a.m. — Thriston Lawrence, Billy Horschel

 

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Spiethcoaster driving ball pretty well today, but still a rollercoaster thru 11 holes...

  • 4 birdies
  • 3 bogeys
  • 4 pars

Last 4 holes including #12, just terrible approach shots with irons

 

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1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

Cold and windy. Not a lot of low numbers out there so far today. This has been an awesome tournament. Go Scottie! 🤘🤘🤘

Wind has calmed somewhat and it’s warmed up a bit. A 67 has been posted. There might be a 66 out there. 

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1 hour ago, LTtxfan said:

Spiethcoaster driving ball pretty well today, but still a rollercoaster thru 11 holes...

  • 4 birdies
  • 3 bogeys
  • 4 pars

Last 4 holes including #12, just terrible approach shots with irons

 

70  shoots -1 today.  Spiethcoaster solid off tee driving all day.  Approach game and putting still holding him back from lower scores.  Nice to see him birdie the 18th 💥

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1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said:

This tv coverage fucking sucks. 

You don’t like seeing the 2 leaders sink birdies on 1/4 of the screen? Or the constant Olympic promotion? Are you unamerican?

NBC blows. 

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One major for Scottie seems like a letdown to me based on how consistently well he has hit the ball. If he's like me, his ball striking will come back down to earth right as he starts to get the putter fixed. 

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One major for Scottie seems like a letdown to me based on how consistently well he has hit the ball. If he's like me, his ball striking will come back down to earth right as he starts to get the putter fixed. 

If he didn’t have one shitty round at the PGA, and if he hadn’t 3 jacked a few minutes ago, he really had a chance to win more.
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