striding

The boy with big dreams has, step by step, season by season, become the man capable of striding into the semi-finals of the US Open without dropping a set.

“None of these terms will do to describe the great, waving, chattering, elbowing, laughing, striding, stumbling, and pushing bundles of sweltering folks who swarmed out into Rickwood park Thursday afternoon.”

Known as a striding male figure, it is one of only 33 statues like it known to exist, Egyptologists say.

The Norwegian ended a week where he considered withdrawing through lack of form to feeling for the first time the heat of having a chance to win a major while striding onto the 72nd green.

His 2021 Brits performance of the song of the same name, striding across Sir Elton John's piano, was one of the ceremony's most memorable performances in recent years.