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Canada’s DeLaet forced to wait

Open efforts might not get him to weekend play

- CAM COLE All times Eastern Postmedia News

in St. Andrews bogeyed the difficult No. 17, where his approach shot ran over the green onto the road.

“The double on 15 stings and I hit a great putt on 18 and just misread it and missed on the high side. It’s pretty disappoint­ing,” said DeLaet, who had chipped in twice early on — once for par at the first hole, where his approach shot found the burn in front of the green, and again for eagle at the fifth.

“I think that we played the golf course really well as far as what we did off each tee and trying to get different angles into different pins. It’s just disappoint­ing that I might not even be around for the weekend.” Star Crossing One of those storied intersecti­ons that always seem to happen, perhaps not coincident­ally, at the Open: Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson paused before hitting their putts on the first green to applaud as three-time champion Nick Faldo, playing his last St. Andrews Open, walked onto the Swilcan Bridge on the adjacent 18th to pose for the traditiona­l farewell photos.

Faldo had first stopped to pull on the yellow cashmere sweater that he had worn in winning the 1987 Open at Muirfield, his first major. As someone pointed out, the sweater is seven years older than Spieth, assuming it was new then. Old Guy Rules After shooting an embarrassi­ng 83 on Thursday, dooming him to a missed cut, Faldo rebounded to shoot 71 that included a rare (for anyone) birdie at the Road Hole, No. 17.

“I don’t know what I really said to myself (on the bridge). I was just trying to say, thank you, St. Andrews,” Sir Nick said. “That’s why I looked at the gods, the St. Andrews golfing gods at 17. I thought, thank you very much for that. I felt beat up yesterday, but that was one of my great moments of any career, making a 3 there and walking the walk. That won’t get any better.”

SUNDAY Pan Am Games

Pan Am Afternoon, 1 p.m.

Women’s soccer: Ecuador vs. Costa Rica, 5:30 p.m. Pan Am Prime, 7 p.m. Women’s soccer: Canada vs. Brazil, 8:30 p.m.

Pan Am Latenight. 11:30 p.m. Major League Baseball Seattle (Hernandez 11-5) at NY Yankees (Sabathia 4-8), 1:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (TBA) at Toronto (TBA), 1:07 p.m. Baltimore (Gonzalez 7-6) at Detroit (Verlander 0-2), 1:08 p.m. Cleveland (Carrasco 10-7) at Cincinnati (Cueto 6-6), 1:10 p.m. LA Dodgers (TBA) at Washington (TBA), 1:35 p.m. Miami (TBA) at Philadelph­ia (Hamels 5-7), 1:35 p.m. Kansas City (Duffy 3-4) at Chi. White Sox (TBA), 2:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (TBA) at Milwaukee (Jungmann 4-1), 2:10 p.m. Texas (Gallardo 7-8) at Houston (Keuchel 11-4), 2:10 p.m. NY Mets (TBA) at St. Louis (TBA), 2:15 p.m. Minnesota (Milone 5-1) at Oakland (Chavez 4-9), 4:05 p.m. Colorado (TBA) at San Diego (Cashner 3-10), 4:10 p.m. San Francisco (TBA) at Arizona (Corbin 1-1), 4:10 p.m. Chi. Cubs (Arrieta 10-5) at Atlanta (TBA), 5:05 p.m.

Boston (TBA) at LA Angels (TBA), 8:05 p.m. Golf

The Open Championsh­ip, 6 a.m.

LPGA Tour Marathon Classic, 2 p.m.

PGA Tour Barbasol Championsh­ip, 4 p.m. Tennis

Davis Cup: Canada vs. Belgium, reverse singles, 7 a.m. Soccer | CONCACAF Gold Cup

Quarter-finals, 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Auto racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup Race 5-Hour Energy 301, 1 p.m. Cycling

Tour de France, stage 15, 8 a.m. Rugby | Internatio­nal

Japan vs. Canada, 7 p.m.

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