CONNOR SYME, the Drumoig amateur, is relishing the prospect of making his Open championship debut alongside John Daly after revealing he was only a new-born baby when the American lifted the Claret Jug at St Andrews in 1995. Syme, a one-time Rangers youth prospect, will tee off at Royal Birkdale on Thursday morning with Australia’s Adam Bland and also the man known universally as Wild Thing.
“I just saw the draw and it’s cool, I can’t wait,” said Syme, last year’s Australian amateur champion. “Playing with a former champion - I’m really looking forward to that. The year he won I was born around that time. I was probably about ten days old or something!
“You’ve seen him through the years and he has just won again on the Seniors Tour. It’s good to see him back playing and I’ll be able to pick his brains about some of the events he has played in down the years and the things he has won.
“My swing is a little shorter than his, he’s got a fair bit of torque, hasn’t he? I can’t wait to see him hit it because he still looks like he is bombing it on the Seniors Tour. It should be class. It will be incredible to play with him. We’ll probably get a gallery and that should be good.”
Syme hopes playing with Daly will help him with his twin aims of making the cut and finishing as the leading amateur.
He added: “Every amateur is striving to win the Silver Medal, that’s a target. And making the cut is one of my other goals as well.”
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here