Lingmerth made his first appearance in The Open Championship in 2015 at the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland.
a good iron player, but he went into a slump when he became technique-focused. Once he went back to the basics of being a feel player, he enjoyed a breakout year in 2015. He won the Memorial Tournament and shot multiple low rounds last summer. Uncle Goran watched the Memorial while on vacation in Costa Rica, where he’d rented a villa in a remote area.
“Luckily, the landowner had satellite TV,” Goran said. “We watched it in Spanish. We were hooting and hollering down the stretch. I was on the phone with his dad the whole time and when David sank that final putt, it was not quiet in Costa Rica or in Sweden. It was mostly screaming.” After the post-round press conference at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, Megan was there and held up a cell phone so David’s father could watch the proceedings on FaceTime and wrangled Tournament Host Jack Nicklaus to the phone so he could surprise Thomas by wishing him happy birthday. In a year of multiple firsts for David—winning, playing the Open Championship, going to St. Andrews, earning a Masters invitation, hanging with Nicklaus and skydiving—guess which one won’t happen multiple times? You got it. The one where he jumps out of a plane. “I’m glad I did it, though,” David says with a chuckle. “Because now I don’t have to do it again.” MT Gary Van Sickle, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, has covered golf for 35 years.
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