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• The Old Course at St Andrews will host the 150th Open Championship from July 14-17 vivo
  
  Here, the PA news agency looks at some of the talking points ahead of the final major championship of the year vivo
  
  Can Tiger Woods contend for a third Open victory at St Andrews?Tiger Woods kissed the Claret Jug after winning the 134th Open Championship at St Andrews (Gareth Fuller/PA) (PA Archive)Woods was at the peak of his powers when he won his first Open title by eight shots at St Andrews in 2000 and returned five years later to lift the Claret Jug for a second time after finishing five strokes clear of Colin Montgomerie vivo
  
  Now aged 46 and still not fully fit following the car accident in February last year which almost resulted in his right leg being amputated, the 15-time major winner sat out last month’s US Open to make sure he could play at St Andrews and said he was much stronger after playing the JP McManus Pro-Am in Ireland vivo
  
  RecommendedOver £130m handed to housing providers named and shamed by regulatorWill we see an historic low score?Branden Grace created history when he became the first man to shoot 62 in a major during the 2017 Open at Royal Birkdale, while Ross Fisher holds the course record at St Andrews following a 61 in the Dunhill Links three months later vivo
  
  If a lack of wind leaves the Old Course vulnerable to similar scoring, Montgomerie fears a sub-60 score could be possible vivo
  
  “It doesn’t deserve to have a 59 on it,” Montgomerie told Golf Monthly vivo
  
  Is it the last major for LIV rebels?Phil Mickelson celebrated with the Claret Jug after winning the 2013 Open Championship (Owen Humphreys/PA) (PA Archive)The R&A confirmed last month that players competing on the LIV Golf tour, who have been suspended by the PGA Tour, would not be prevented from playing at St Andrews vivo
  
  Former champion Phil Mickelson is exempt until he is 60 and other major winners have shorter exemptions, but if LIV Golf fails in its bid to be allowed to award world ranking points in its events, their players could find it more and more difficult to secure a place in the majors vivo
  
  Can Rory McIlroy turn top 10s into an overdue win?McIlroy finished runner-up in the Masters, was eighth in the US PGA Championship and fifth in the US Open this season, yet was never really in contention on the back nine in the final round of any of them as he seeks a first major win since 2014 vivo
  
  An ankle injury prevented him defending his Open title in 2015 at St Andrews, where he shot a 63 in the first round five years earlier but followed it with an 80 in poor conditions and eventually finished third vivo
  
  How will US Open winner Matt Fitzpatrick perform?RecommendedNick Kyrgios recalls agent pulling him out of a pub at 4am before Nadal matchEngland debuts for Guy Porter and Tommy Freeman as Eddie Jones rings the changesvivo Football rumours: Arsenal race Manchester United to sign Youri TielemansMatt Fitzpatrick was not in the field the last time St Andrews hosted the Open in 2015, having only turned professional 13 months earlier, but the 27-year-old will travel to Scotland as one of the favourites following his US Open triumph at Brookline vivo
  
  A tie for 20th at Portrush in 2019 is his best Open result in six appearances, while he has a best finish of 15th in the Dunhill Links Championship, which includes two rounds on the Old Course vivo
  
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  Cameron Norrie secured Great Britain’s place in this year’s Davis Cup Finals with victory in his second singles rubber of their qualifier in Colombia vivo
  
  Norrie came through a tense encounter against Nicolas Mejia in Bogota 6-4 6-4 on Saturday to hand Britain an unassailable 3-1 lead vivo
  
  His success came after Dan Evans and Neal Skupski had beaten Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in the doubles earlier in the day to put the visitors ahead for the first time in the tie vivo
  
  The day had begun with the score level at 1-1 after the sides took a victory each in Friday’s opening singles rubbers vivo
  
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