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If Suber is feeling the nerves this morning, they’ve not been betrayed by his opening tee shot. A confident drive, striped down the middle of the fairway. He’s going around with Sami Valimaki, who became the first Finnish player to win on the PGA Tour last year, with victory at the RSM Classic. It was Valimaki’s 28th birthday yesterday, and the gallery sang Happy Birthday to him on 18. “I thought that was pretty cool,” said Suber.
Suber seems to be enjoying discovering life on this side of the pond. He’d never been to Europe before, but has travelled “pretty much everywhere in Latin American and Canada”. He thinks the UK is “awesome … the golf is really cool, and just the towns, how the train system works.” He went into Liverpool earlier this week with pal Pierceson Coody and partners. “That was really cool to see a European city.” And when he was asked why he’s not going to try driving on the other side of the road, he gave a reply as tinder-dry as the Birkdale rough: “Because I’m trying to make it here for four days.”