Picking an Open winner becomes ever harder in era without a hierarchy | Andy Bull

Rory McIlroy says ‘the margins are so fine’ between the leading players while Jordan Spieth cannot identify who would be in a ‘big four’, which means mental strength and adaptability could be key at Royal BirkdaleThe rain came late to Royal Birkdale, hours after the weathermen reckoned it would. They said the storm that swept across the south on Tuesday night would arrive around 11 in the morning. Then they pushed it back to two in the afternoon, then again to five in the