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Hoylake: An ailing Anirban Lahiri of India bowed out of The Open Championship with a second straight three-over-par 75 on Friday.<\/p>\nHoylake: An ailing Anirban Lahiri of India bowed out of The Open Championship with a second straight three-over-par 75 on Friday.<\/p>\n
The current Asian Tour Order of Merit leader contemplated pulling out before the start of his second round at Royal Liverpool after struggling to shake off the effects of viral fever, which has lingered since the start of the week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have pulled out if this was a normal tour event,\u201d said a dejected Lahiri, who was making his second appearance in the world\u2019s oldest Major.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m feeling terrible. Bad fever and body ache all day. I was contemplating whether to play or not. I didn\u2019t want to pull out as I wanted to walk down the 18th and see the Indian flag once more. It was hard, it was very hard. I thought about pulling out for a long time but my manager and the family that I\u2019m staying with had a chat with me and I\u2019m glad that I played.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under tough conditions, Lahiri dropped three bogeys and one double bogey but managed to sink two birdies, including one on the last hole. The Indian, who has won once this season and posted three more top-10s on the Asian Tour, said he wasn\u2019t sure if he would conclude his round under the steamy conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure I was going to finish. On the seventh and eighth, I was totally out of it. Somehow I kept going. I\u2019m glad I did as it\u2019s been fantastic,\u201d said the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to my dad (who is a doctor) over the phone, I\u2019ve had fever since Monday and it\u2019s some sort of viral as it keeps returning every night as I get the shivers and body aches. I\u2019ve been taking paracetamol and that has helped me play two days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the disappointment of having to take an early flight home, Lahiri said he would learn from the experience of competing at the highest level when his body wasn\u2019t 100 per cent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great experience. I still played quite decently on the back nine. I did make some mistakes and could have shot a better round. I\u2019m proud of that. I\u2019m glad that I did what I did as this will go into the experience kitty and it\u2019ll help me grind it out in the future. Today was tough,\u201d said Lahiri.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the front nine, I was pretty much spent. I had used up all the energy I had. I was having bananas, granola bars and energy drinks right through to keep more going. I started feeling it on 11, 12 and whenever I had an opportunity I would sit down. It was tough on the back nine as I had get up the slopes. I told my caddie to get ahead of me and to just tell me the yardage when I got there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis experience would make me want to get back to the Open again. It\u2019s been two contrasting Opens for me and I think I have learned a lot from both,\u201d added Lahiri, who finished tied 31st in the Major debut in 2012.<\/p>\n
Next up for Lahiri is a first appearance at the US PGA Championship next month and the Indian star, who is ranked 86th in the world, hopes to recover sufficiently to put in a worthy performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got to recover from this quickly. I\u2019ve been on the run for the past few months (having to cut short his honeymoon to get to the Open). At least mentally I\u2019ll be ready, and I hope to get stronger for that. Hopefully I will be in much better shape,\u201d said Lahiri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hoylake: An ailing Anirban Lahiri of India bowed out of The Open Championship with a second straight three-over-par 75 on Friday.<\/p>\n
The current Asian Tour Order of Merit leader contemplated pulling out before the start of his second round at Royal Liverpool after struggling to shake off the effects of viral fever, which has lingered since the start of the week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have pulled out if this was a normal tour event,\u201d said a dejected Lahiri, who was making his second appearance in the world\u2019s oldest Major.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m feeling terrible. Bad fever and body ache all day. I was contemplating whether to play or not. I didn\u2019t want to pull out as I wanted to walk down the 18th and see the Indian flag once more. It was hard, it was very hard. I thought about pulling out for a long time but my manager and the family that I\u2019m staying with had a chat with me and I\u2019m glad that I played.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under tough conditions, Lahiri dropped three bogeys and one double bogey but managed to sink two birdies, including one on the last hole. The Indian, who has won once this season and posted three more top-10s on the Asian Tour, said he wasn\u2019t sure if he would conclude his round under the steamy conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"\n