Wellington golfer Mark Brown has climbed almost 20 places in round three of the 142nd Open Championship in Scotland overnight. Photo / Getty Images.
New Zealand golfer Mark Brown has completed a fine week at the 142nd Open Championship in Scotland, finishing in a share of 44th place.
The 38-year-old shot a final round one-over-par 72 for the second straight day.
He finished on 10-over-par, 13 shots back from the champion American Phil Mickelson
who claimed his first Claret Jug and was also the first golfer to win the Scottish Open and British Open in successive weeks.
Mickelson was also the first left hander to win The Open Championship in 50 years since Sir Bob Charles won in a playoff at Royal Lytham and St Annes in 1963.
Brown, who made his first cut in the Open Championship after missing the weekend in 2009 at Turnberry, took home $31,000 (NZD) in his second appearance at golf's oldest major.
