With hockey and football behind him, James Nicholas is all-in on his golf future at the British Open
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Mark Cannizzaro With hockey and football behind him, James Nicholas is all-in on his golf future at the British Open By Mark Cannizzaro Published July 15, 2026, 6:38 p.m. ET James Nicholas plays a shot from a bunker on hole 3 during a practice round for The Open Championship golf tournament. Bill Streicher-Imagn Images SOUTHPORT, England — With James Nicholas, a rising 29-year-old golfer from Westchester who’s playing in his first British Open this week, let’s start with this: Golf was not his best sport as a kid.
And, according to Nicholas, it still isn’t.
It’s the paths we take that end up defining us. Sometimes unwittingly. Nicholas is a living, breathing example of that.
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