With Ricky Ponting’s identical twin brother Brian Harman winning at Royal Liverpool on Sunday, there are now 3 left-handed winners of The Open Championship in the tournament’s 151-year history.

Coincidentally, the 3 wins all came in years ending in a 3, and their final scores all ended in a 3.

Kiwi Bob Charles won the 1963 Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes in a 36-hole playoff, his winning score being 3 under, becoming the first left-handed major winner in history.

The great Phil Mickelson won the 2013 Open at Muirfield with a blinding 4 birdies on the last 6 holes, and like Charles, his winning score was 3 under.

And in 2023, American Brian ‘The Butcher’ Harman took the lead during the Second Round and stayed there all the way through the driving rain at Royal Liverpool to win by 6 shots, his winning score being 13 under.

Harman is the odd one out of the 3, in that he won his Claret Jug in England rather than Scotland, and his winning score wasn’t 3 under.

But there you go, Three, it’s a magic number!

And on that note, to all you mollydooker golfers, good luck in 2033.