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Open Championship: Tallest Player In PGA Tour History Tees It Up 

Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka might be golf's twin American masses, yet they're tiny people contrasted with the beast that is Jon Thomson. 메이저사이트

At 6 feet, 9 inches, Thomson, who just finished his initially round in a significant Thursday, is the tallest player at any point to tee it up either on the PGA or European visits. The English goliath doesn't have a long golf family — he just qualified his direction into the current year's Open Championship, on account of a qualifier serendipitously situated at his home club. In any case, he's actually drawing notice all over Royal St. George's a direct result of the extremely long shadow he projects. 

Here's a glance at Thomson from 2018 in South Africa: 

an individual remaining on a baseball field: Jon Thomson in 2018. Extreme to miss. (Photograph by Warren Little/Getty Images) © Provided by Yahoo! Sports Jon Thomson in 2018. Intense to miss. (Photograph by Warren Little/Getty Images) 

His authority bio noticed that Thomson has the epithet "Jigger" since "he frequently moved in his nappies as a baby." (British humor, people.) He previously got a club at 5 years old, and grew up playing with future Masters champion Danny Willett. 

In any case, there's something else entirely to his story than simply his monstrous size. As Golf Digest learned, Thomson took a long, excruciating way to the Open. At age 7, he was determined to have leukemia. During four long periods of chemotherapy and a time of recuperation, Thomson could just play golf; physical games were taboo. 

He continued on, moving gradually up through a scope of formative visits. Keep going year on the Portugal Pro Tour, he coordinated with a world record via checking nine birdies in succession. Despite the fact that he's had an unpleasant summer — he missed five of six cuts coming out of the shadows — he made it's anything but a significant finally. 

Thomson battled from the leap, going intruder twofold intruder over his initial three openings to sit at +4, yet quieted down and played solid golf the remainder of the way. A four-birdies-in-five-openings run on the back nine aided leave him at +1 toward the finish of his initially round.