The Open Championship: Korean Tom Kim makes history, as Harman claims golf season’s closing major

Tom Kim overcame the twin perils of an ankle injury and foul English seaside conditions to shoot a magnificent final-round 67 and become the youngest Open Championship runner-up in 47 years.

Korean Kim, 21, was among a group of four players who finished six strokes adrift of runaway winner Brian Harman, who claimed his first major prize on Sunday and landed a first title of any description in more than six years.

Harman established a five-shot lead over the field following a tremendous second-round 65 on Friday and never wobbled in the face of multiple surges from a handful of major winners in the pack.

The American closed with a fine one-under-par 70 to finish on 13 under and join an exclusive seven-man club who have won majors by six strokes or more in the past quarter-century.

While Harman’s progress from gun to tape qualified as relatively serene, Kim endured a wretched start to his week at Royal Liverpool.

Kim, who achieved successive top-10 major finishes following his tied-eighth at last month’s US Open, slipped into “half-a-yard of mud” outside his English rental property after an opening-round 74.