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With his magical putter in hand, Brian Harman tamed every challenge at the British Open on July 23.
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What pulls us to sport? Why do we stay up late and go to work groggy and feeling religious? Why do we set aside all else of life for a young person in a distant land?
Is it for the art, a Lionel Messi free kick in extra time, a bit like a man composing a sonnet with his toes? For the rush which competition brings, a kind of legal intoxication? For the violence found in a right hook that jars the ribcage? For just a sport itself, its nuances, codes, mysteries? For Katie Ledecky versus Ariarne Titmus, humans in watery lanes out to honourably ruin each other.
