Many storylines, including an amateur Christo Lamprecht tied for the lead, at The Open Championship from Royal Liverpool have come from Day One of the historic tournament. 

But one thing is for sure: Holes 17 and 18 at Royal Liverpool are a "monstrosity," according to Matt Fitzpatrick’s caddie, Billy Foster. 

When the tournament teed off on Thursday, the course’s final two holes were a nightmare for many golfers, as treacherous bunkers around the green took victims left and right. 

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The first on 17 -- a brand new, short par-3 at 138 yards -- calls for a precise tee shot that has a direct line to the pin. If not, the golfer will likely find themselves in one of the bunkers stationed around the intended target. 

Of course, with winds swirling around Hoylake, it’s hard to be as precise as the golfer wants. 

Then, it’s time for the driver with a 599-yard 18th and final hole for the round. There’s multiple out of bounds areas to deal with off the tee. More bunkers await the golfer on their approach shots as well. 

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"I would say it’s fair, because it’s unfair to everybody,’’ Jon Rahm said via Yahoo! Sports prior to the tournament. "Like it’s golf, and it’s life. Simple as that. We all have to play the same holes. If you hit a good shot, you’ll definitely most likely have a birdie chance. If not, you’ll deal with it. I get you’re going for that on a championship Sunday. 

"You have a one-shot lead, that hole can be pivotal."

Lucas Herbert learned quickly at Hole 17 how hard those bunkers are to escape after he aired his tee shot over the green, saying it was "pretty hard to feel the wind." He ended up with a triple bogey after his first attempt out of the sand went awry, and he came into the hole with the lead at 3-under. 

Phil Mickelson was another who struggled at the 17th, finding it hard to get out of the bunker on his first try as well. 

For Brooks Koepka, though, he doesn’t mind the challenge and thinks the 17th is actually quite fun. 

"I like it," he told Yahoo! Sports. "I’m a big believer in the short par-3s — make it difficult, exactly like that. I think all the best par 3s in the world that have ever been designed are 165 yards or shorter.

"Just don’t hit it over there, and you won’t have a problem, right?"

But the 18th saw some brutal tee shots and lies in the greenside bunkers from numerous golfers, including Rickie Fowler. Hospitality tents and room for spectators makes it a narrow tee shot, and Fowler found himself out of bounds not once, but twice. He would finish his round with a triple bogey to go 1-over on the day. 

There was also Justin Thomas’s implosion, as his recent play continues to falter at majors. He scored a wicked quadruple bogey after he couldn’t stay out of the bunkers, hitting out from one to the other and even duffing a pitch shot back in. 

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He’s in danger to miss another major cut with an 82 posted in his first round. 

Rory McIlroy almost suffered the same fate as his peers when he was trapped in the bunker at 18. He tried to hit it out the first time and failed, but with one leg in and one leg laid on the grass outside, he managed to get his ball close to the hole with a chance to save par. 

A fist pump came out after he knocked in his par putt, finishing even on the day. 

Normally, you don’t see reactions like that on the first day of any tournament, but that fist pump shows how hard it is for these golfers to get the job done. 

These two finishing holes will continue to pester these pros and amateurs for the next three days. But, like Rahm said, it’s for everybody to endure. 

It's another week, another country music star falsely accused of racism. Last week, it was Luke Combs who has a huge hit with a cover of Tracy Chapman's 1988 song called Fast Car. I think we have a snippet of the song. 

EDITED VIDEO VERSION OF FAST CAR

You know, that song really is timeless. Somehow, Combs, though, is a bad guy for renewing interest in Chapman's music and putting a bunch of money in her pocket out of respect for her talent. But he's white and she's black, so it's bad. Now it's Jason Aldean's turn. Now, to be clear, as of last week, I had no idea who Jason Aldean was. 

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EMILY COMPAGNO: And it reminds me of that song by Jason Aldean. 

GREG GUTFELD: I don't know who that is. Who's Jason Aldean? Ooo hear the audience groan?

COMPAGNO: It's a country singer. 

GUTFELD: Oh, I'm sorry Fox News. It's a country singer! I'm supposed to know about country music?! I don't know anything about country music. 

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Yeah. It's like... you could get killed if you don't know country music at Fox. Now I know everything about the guy. The story is all over Fox more than Brian Kilmeade. He's a lonely guy, he can't go home. The CMT Network, which used to stand for country music television, now stands for cowards, morons and twerp's because they... You should have seen the original acronym. CMT? Think about it. They pulled the video for Aldean's latest single "Try That in a Small Town." If you haven't seen that yet, here it is again. 

CLIP OF ALDEAN'S SONG 

Musician Sheryl Crow called the song "not American or small town-like. It's just lame." Well, that's not nice of her, but she should know. Here's her singing at a recent concert. 

EDITED VIDEO OF CROW SINGING

Those hormone blockers really work. But it doesn't really matter. The controversy is already backfiring. The song is number one on iTunes, and CMT is as popular with its fan base as a warm can of Bud Light. I know, huh? He never gets old. And now even I'm talking about it and the last time I listened to any country music, I was doing blow in a Bass Pro bathroom with Larry Gatlin. It was a long time ago. But it's the Streisand effect. When you tell people they can't see or hear something, they want to know what you're so afraid of. They want to make up their minds for themselves. You know, like adults in this country had been doing for years until this bag of used **** called the Modern Progressives came along. I probably should… Probably should have said new ****. But none of this is... None of this is about a song or an artist or a genre. It's about who is allowed to speak their mind in 2023 America.

The modern left's first impulse is always censorship, which is more anti-American than putting pineapple on pizza. So why is this song a target? Because it's anti-crime. And to a liberal, being anti-crime is anti-Black. That linkage alone is racist. But it's now a solid belief among progressives. If you redefine violence as mostly peaceful social justice, then rejecting violence makes you the enemy because crime equals blacks among liberals and the media. And now we're here where songs about riots receive more condemnation from politicians than the actual riots did. Racist libs took it personally because the video featured the George Floyd riots, something they embraced. Aldean's point being that in small towns people get touchy when you set fire to their businesses and try to kill them. 

Right now what a bunch of squares. And apparently, it's racist because Aldean filmed the video by a courthouse where a young Black man was launched in 1927. Almost a century ago, the same year Joe Biden got his first letter from AARP. It's funny, they call themselves progressives, right? But they spend more time looking in the rearview mirror than I do when I have a hitchhiker in my trunk. 

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So how much you want to bet Aldean had no idea about that? How much you want to bet that nearly all of the people claiming he should have known didn't have an idea about it either. The media knows nothing, so libs will blame Aldean for something that happened before his grandparents were born. But they won't blame Antifa or BLM for anything that happened during the riots. You know what else was filmed in front of that courthouse? Hannah Montana The Movie. It's Kilmeade's favorite. Nothing says White privilege like her father, Billy Ray's mullet. 

So, libs, if you claim that opposing crime is racist, you're assuming that criminals are all one race. Which is, guess what? Racist? Aldean addressed the controversy, tweeting, "There is not a single lyric in the song that references race. There isn't a single video clip that isn't real news footage," but that doesn't matter.

In the race-obsessed, racist world of modern liberals, they call it a dog whistle. Yet they're the only ones that can hear it. Guess that makes them the dogs. No wonder they poop outdoors.