Francesco Molinari survives wild day to win British Open

Francesco Molinari of Italy holds the trophy after winning the British Open Golf Championship in Carnoustie, Scotland, Sunday July 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Super)Amid so much chaos — seven players atop the leaderboard, six of them still tied on the back nine — Molinari played a steady hand by going the entire weekend without a bogey and finishing with a 5-foot birdie putt that secured his place in history as Italy's first major champion.

"Clearly, in my group, the attention wasn't really on me, let's put it that way," Molinari said, the gleaming claret jug in front of him. "If someone was expecting a charge, they probably weren't expecting it from me. But it's been the same the whole of my…