The Open 2019: Danny Willett banishes the darkness to make hay in the Portrush sunshine ...
(WorldNews Sport)

Late on Wednesday evening, Danny Willett sat in the Neptune and Prawn restaurant at the heart of Portrush´s cramped harbour, staring out over the blue of the Irish Sea with little hope or expectation of seeing claret. Three days later, he rolled back to before his `darkest times` and pulled in the Open leaders from the horizon with a spectacular six-under-par round of 65 that fell just two inches on the low side of a course record. Three years after becoming an unlikely Masters Champion, the Englishman has endured and overcome a fall from grace that bled into thoughts of turning his back on the game altogether, the dismantling of his team and a perennial pain in his back that left him taking...