Only two English golfers in the last 100 years have won the Open more than once, and both of them were knighted on the strength of their achievement.
This weekend, at the age of just 25, Georgia Hall has the chance to join Sir Henry Cotton and Sir Nick Faldo and become the first woman to complete the feat.
Three years after winning the title in nerveless style at Royal Lytham, the Bournemouth lover of the links was in her element once more — following up her opening 68 with a 69 to assume the halfway lead on seven under par at the AIG Women’s Open alongside American Mina Harigae, who is looking for a maiden win of any kind, let alone a major.