Tom Watson and a dangling modifier

Here's a nice golf-related dangling modifier from a recent BBC Sport story:

Screengrab from BBC Sport showing dangling modifier

The paragraph in question is this one:

Having won five Opens and three Senior British Opens, including the 2003 tournament at Turnberry, the adoring British crowd had roared on Watson from the moment he carded an opening 65.


Obviously it is (Tom) Watson who has won five Opens and three Senior British Opens, not "the adoring British crowd".

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