Daniel Brown once considered quitting golf, old tweet surfaces amid the golfer’s Open Championship run
Daniel Brown, who sits at T2 on the leaderboard of the Open Championship, once considered quitting golf. The English professional golfer has been playing well since the opening round of the Major.
In Round 1, he had six birdies to settle his score at 65 at the end of the round. Daniel Brown dropped two birdies to finish at 72 in the next round. Then, he made it through the cutline with a 5-under score. Finally, Brown made five birdies to land at 73 on the third day. His score stands at 3-under and he's just one stroke behind leader Billy Horschel. While Brown is close to winning the Claret Jug, he considered quitting golf in February, 2014.
Daniel Brown also shared his thoughts on X at the time. That old post recently re-surfaced as it received attention from netizens and they commented how the post didn't age at all.
“Could quite happily quit golf tomorrow,” Daniel Brown wrote.
Brown made this comment before turning professional in 2017. Currently, he plays on the European Tour and has only one triumph. He won the ISPS Handa World Invitational in 2023.
Daniel Brown expresses that he's comfortable in the first Major of his life
Brown missed six cuts and backed off from one tournament on the DP World Tour before he participated in the Open Championship. After that, he bounced back at the Open Championship, which is his first Major appearance in the golf lookbook. He is playing well at the Royal Troon and sits at T2 on the leaderboard.
After the opening round, Brown expressed in an interview with Golf.com how he felt comfortable in his first Major appearance.
“I was playing well leading up to the tournament, so scores haven’t really reflected it recently…I felt comfortable and probably a bit more calm than you normally would be with it being your first major,” Daniel Brown said.
Although Brown was overall comfortable, the last two holes of the Royal Troon on Saturday were challenging. Opening up on it, he told Forbes:
“Links golf got the better of me on those last two holes, but overall pleased, I suppose…But if you'd have told me I was going to go into the final round of the Open one or two shots back, I would have ripped your hand off."
Before the Open Championship, Brown’s best finishes this year were at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open and the SDC Championship. In the first tournament, he ended up at T3, and in the latter, he landed at T4. Currently, the fourth round of the Open Championship is underway and it will be interesting to see if Brown wins the Claret Jug.