The left-hander, a keen hunter in his home state of Georgia, cut down a high-quality field in Hoylake as he led by five strokes on Friday and Saturday and extended his winning margin to six on a testing final day weather-wise.
The Ricky Ponting doppelganger silenced the partisan home crowds on the links like no other player that week, holing 59 of 60 putts from inside 10 feet, which helped earn him his new nickname from the British media – and now he’s back in Europe, ready for anything the noisy Ryder Cup crowds in Rome may wish to throw at him.
At the time, he found the new nickname amusing but when he got home, he found it had even followed him back across the Atlantic.
“I’ve got to get one of those tabloids of ‘Brian the Butcher’ because it was a Brian the Butcher theme party that my wife threw me, which is fantastic,” he said.
“I can show…
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