You’re about to leave the house early in the morning ahead of the biggest day of your life: What do you need before you go? A cooked breakfast, of course – one lovingly prepared and cooked by mum.
Matthew Jordan may have been playing Royal Liverpool since he was knee high to a grasshopper, but teeing off first in The Open at your home club in front of a packed gallery is a pretty big deal – and you imagine there were a few nerves.
“I made him breakfast at 4.30am, he was downstairs by five for sausages and poached eggs,” his Mum tells Golf Monthly. “I don’t really get that nervous. I do the Mum thing of, ‘Is he feeling Ok? ‘Has he eaten?’ ‘Has he got plenty to drink?’ All those kind of things.
“At the moment, he’s still at home, he’s enjoying chilling in his own room. He just wants to stay at home, have a meal at home. He doesn’t want to eat out because he eats out all the time, so we’re just doing the family thing of sitting down and eating together.”
At 6.30am, playing partners Richie Ramsay and Branden Grace walked onto the tee and received a smattering of applause; then Jordan at 6.32am, and the cheers were a great deal louder.
The Wirral star backed off before pulling the trigger and started his pre-shot routine again. Jitters? Probably, and it was no surprise to see the first shot of the 151st Open Championship find the rough.
“The fact that he got it off the tee, that was pretty good to be fair,” says lifelong friend and fellow Royal Liverpool member, Tom Dawson, who was grinning from ear to ear and following his pal’s every shot, as were hundreds of Royal Liverpool members and young children from the local school Jordan used to attend.
Matthew Jordan gets the 151st Open underway with the opening tee shot at 6.35am on Thursday
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The membership of Hoylake are understandably very excited – and proud. “It’s really hard to put into words, it’s like your best friend achieving their lifetime goal,” adds Dawson, who played a lot of junior golf with Jordan and describes him as a “Diet Coke and ham sandwich guy”, a hard worker that was “never influenced by alcohol” growing up.
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