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They say you can’t win The Open on Thursday but you can lose it.

Technically, Romain Langasque did neither.

The Frenchman, making his fifth start in the oldest of the majors, withdrew from the championship after completing only seven holes of his first round.

Langasque’s tee shot on the 123-yard par-3 eighth went only 84 yards, finishing in the thick rough well short of the green on the shortest hole on the Open rota.

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After thinning his second through the back of the green, he immediately removed his baseball cap and shook hands with his playing partners CT Pan and Yuto Katsuragwa.

The 29-year-old former Amateur champion gestured to his back, indicating that he might have injured it.

See the clip here:

Langasgue is the third player to withdraw from The 152nd Open. Sebastian Soderberg pulled out on Wednesday afternoon citing the same back and rib injury that kept him out of the Genesis Scottish Open last week.

The 2001 champion David Duval, meantime, pulled out last week.


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Michael McEwan is the Deputy Editor of bunkered and has been part of the team since 2004. In that time, he has interviewed almost every major figure within the sport, from Jack Nicklaus, to Rory McIlroy, to Donald Trump. The host of the multi award-winning bunkered Podcast and a member of Balfron Golfing Society, Michael is the author of three books and is the 2023 PPA Scotland 'Writer of the Year' and 'Columnist of the Year'. Dislikes white belts, yellow balls and iron headcovers. Likes being drawn out of the media ballot to play Augusta National.

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