[July 11, 2022, St. Andrews, Scotland] Ten teams, including former champions of The Open, as well as top women's, amateur and disabled players, gathered at the Old Course of St. Andrews on Monday to participate in the "Champions" "Celebration of Champions" to jointly open the 150

[July 11, 2022, St. Andrews, Scotland] Ten teams, including former champions of The Open, as well as top women's, amateur and disabled players, gathered at the St. Andrews Old Course on Monday. Participate in the "Celebration of Champions" and open the 150th The Open together. In the end, 64-year-old Nick Faldo reversed time and led a team of four to victory.

The "Championship Celebration Match" is a group exhibition match, which is held on the first, second, 17th and 18th holes of the St. Andrews Old Course. There are a total of four players in each team, and the two best scores of the group on each hole are taken as the team score. The team with the lowest total score on the four holes wins.

The four players in the Nick Faldo group are: John Daly, Zach Johnson and Louis Oosthuizen, all of whom are former St. Andrews champions. They scored a pair of birdies on the 1st and 2nd holes, shot even par on the 17th hole, and another pair of birdies on the 18th hole, finishing 6 under par and winning by 3 strokes.

Tiger Woods, McIlroy, Hall of Fame member Lee Trevino, and former AIG Women's Open champion Georgia Hall formed a team and started in the last group. They shot 3 under par and were tied for second place with the Davis group.

Tiger Woods and McIlroy are always a star team that cannot be ignored. In particular, St. Andrews is the golf course where Woods created miracles. He won here twice, including achieving the "Career Grand Slam" here in 2000. In order to ensure that he can devote himself to this event, Tiger Woods, who suffered a car accident last year, even gave up the US Open held last month.

Today’s highlights include the appearance of 18-time major champion Nicklaus on the field, accompanying Woods on the final stretch of the 18th hole. In 2005, when Nicklaus bid farewell to The Open and the four major championships here, it happened that Woods won the old course for the second time.

The first group of players to kick off the "Championship Celebration Tournament" includes the defending champion Colin Morikawa and the amateur world number one Keita Nakajima. They shot 1 under and tied for fifth place.

However, neither the Woods team nor the Morikawa team were defeated by the Faldo team in the end. Three-time champion Nick Faldo reunited with legendary female caddy Fanny Sunesson. They made a wonderful attack on the green on the first hole and scored a birdie, opening up the situation for their group.

However, Woods birdied the second and 18th holes, and McIlroy birdied the last hole, which also received bursts of applause from the crowd.

Other categories in the "Celebration of Champions" are also very interesting, such as Gary Player, Bob Charles, Sandy Lyle and Monica ·Monique Kalkman forms the "Ren Rui Group". The combined age of the four of them is 293 years old.

The Open is the world's oldest golf tournament and will celebrate its 150th edition this year. At such a historic moment, the event returned to the "hometown of golf" St. Andrews. The official event begins on Thursday. Domestic fans can watch the event live through , iQiyi, , Golf Channel, etc.