ROCESTER, England — “I was never finished,” Richard Bland says, with about as much conviction as the pin-seeking bunker shot that won him the U.S. Senior Open earlier this month in a record-tying back-to-back major triumph.
The gritty Englishman who middled for years, lost his European Tour card three times and went 477 events before winning the British Masters in 2021 knew, somewhere deep inside, that a ‘few bad years’ would not break him, even if others were suggesting so.
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“Life just got in the way,” Bland recalls, looking back to a period from 2017 where his form fell off a cliff before a surprising surge, sparked partly by a move
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