Basic events
Rory came to a club short on the par-three 3rd. He was in the green, but in front, and the pin behind. In Sky, the ever-excellent rich beem thought he might have eased the adrenaline that was certainly pumping through his roots. She needs to remove a 60-footer if she has to maintain her birdie sequence.
Rory Mcilroy found the heart of green in par-five 2nd in two. He left herself a slow, upstairs 28-foot Eagle Putt. He sets it on the line, but there is no exactly half-ancient juice enough. She bent down to the theater failure, but it looks fun when she taps. A birdie -Birdie begins, and suddenly she returns to -5. Incidentally, he was wearing a red Nike shirt. A signal that he is determined to put on the kind of performance you usually relate to Tiger in a week? Most golf is played in mind, so there is no rule.
Ludvig Åberg also made a quick start. Birdies in 2 and 3 bring him up to -4. Swede’s short main career is very unique in the contrasts: runner-up at Masters on Debut, tied for the 12th in his first US Open, seventh on his second visit to Augusta. But he did not get the cut on the same shows in PGA, again in the US Open last month, and last year in Troon, where he shot 75-76. A tie for eighth last week of the Scottish Open showed his ability to a link, though, and now he is looking good for another of the highly set basic endings. Will he end up in the middle of the pack?
Rory Mcilroy’s second to 1, from the middle of the passage, is clearly average. He left himself a tricky two-putt for his par from 36 feet. Well, that’s the average player to process it. Putt has a large right-left curl, but he judges it with perfection, the ball dropping the hole at eight o’clock. The crowd – and it’s a crowd, a big follow – exploding in the wild festival. There is almost a flicker on Mcilroy’s face. There is no histrionics, just one finger pointing to the air, as if to say: that’s the birdie number one, we’ll look for the next one. Starting one of his tradeboard charges of the trademark? Let’s see! He is -4.
While we were on Bryson’s subject, it was a wonderful piece of Andy Bull. Each line of a gem. Go right away, if not earlier.
Dechambeau, over 6ft, square-shoulder, shaped like a linebacker, looks like he’s carved out of marble. Between the shots, his body seemed to fall as positioned for him by a sculptor. Macintyre, on the other hand, was built like a block working up to Chippie.
It’s another great day for Bryson Dechambeau. Having a shot at 78 on Thursday, he followed it 65 yesterday, a difference of 13 strokes Between the twists. She cards 68 today, and it is 67 is her brilliant Snaky 50-fed birdie effort at 18 who are not hard to stop on the lip. Deserves to fall. Back on Thursday night, it would be fair to wonder if Bryson’s style was compatible with open success; He has been since a bit of a comprehensive one to do any doubts. In -2, he is very far away this year, but these twists and will boost his beliefs ahead of the Birkdale next year. Don’t cut him off.
Rory Mcilroy arrives at the 1st tee in the usual Ulster Ululation. Bedlam, Bedlam, Glorious Bedlam. And he even hit the crowd by cracked by his iron driving in the road. No drama yet. So with the country’s favorite child out of course, and the leaders soon follow, now a good time to take stock how the top of the leaderboard looks …
-10: Scheffler
-9: Fitzpatrick
-8: Harman, li
-5: r højgaard, hatton, macintyre, english, gotterup
-4: Conners (F), Parry (16), Clark (13), Wallace (7), Finau, N Højgaard
-3: Spaun (12), D Johnson (12), Henley (10), Im (8), Glover (7), Fleetwood (6), Lindell (5), Schauffele (3), Åberg (2), Burns (1), Westwood (1), Bradley, Mcilroy, Smith
Having announced Sung-Jae Im’s blistering starting with such a fanfare, the inevitable happening. Bogey at 8. Just a par with his card to this day. But John Parry continues in the right direction, following his Ace to 13 with Birdie at 15. He is -4 for the contest, next to Wyndham Clark, who makes his fourth bird’s birdie at 12, and Matt Wallace, who made Him FOUR BIRDIE OF FRIENDS TO 7! Yes, there is a mark out of everything right, for anyone whose iron is dialing. If the Scottie Scheffler driver is acting, say goodnight to the rest of the farm.
… So there’s a score outside there, if it likes it. Corey Conners is the best to bunch back to the clubhouse today, shooting 66. The 33-year-old Canada, who has never done it in tomorrow, is -4 overall, and that’s some good move. And if it doesn’t describe enough, Sung-Jae Im is currently four under his round up to 7. And that has a Bogey at 3. He made five birdies, at 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7, and clearly a mind to match his top-ten finish last year in Troon at the very end. He is -4 for the championship.
The weather report. Sunny gap, not too much air, and it is shown in early marking, which we can get in a minute. There is a chance that the wind will be picked up later, and there may be some rain, but do not bet the farm anyway is happening, it is open, it is an Ireland -warming, the weather is what it is. Probably rain open tomorrow, mind.
Hole-in-one for parry
Before we get into the thick of the action, let’s start our day with a sugar rush: news of a hole-in-one! It has been a great time for John Parry: 38-year-old from Harrogate won the DP World Tour for the first time in 15 years, at the Mauritius Open; It arrives second to the Kenya Open and the Alfred Dunhill, and tied for the fourth in the Soudal Open. This can be highlight, though: a shot of tee drawn on the 13th-fence 13th takes some bounces and lost in the cup! Her play partner, 1997, Justin Leonard’s champion, was warmly greeted her. That corresponds to the hope of the Emiliano Grillo, which fits this hole in the first spin back in 2019. Parry only plays his second open, finishing it at St Andrews three years ago, finishing the week with a tie for 62th. He made a bigger mark at this time.
PREAMBLE
Welcome to moving the day to the 153rd Open Championship! After 36 holes, the top of the leaderboard is like this …
-10: Scottie Scheffler
-9: Matt Fitzpatrick
-8: Brian Harman, Haotong Li
-5: Rasmus Højgaard, Tyrrell Hatton, Robert Macintyre, Harris English, Chris Gotterup
-4: Tony Finau, Nicolai Højgaard
-3: Keegan Bradley, Rory Mcilroy, Jordan Smith, Lee Westwood, Sam Burns
… as they (selected) large names have not got the cut …
Joaquin Niemann, Jason Day, Ryan Fox, Zach Johnson, Kim Si-Woo, Tom Kim, Tom Mckibbin, Patrick Cantlay, Stewart Cink, Cameron Young, Min Woo Lee, Patrick Reed, Louis Oosthuizen, Darren Clarke, Brooks Koepka, Collin Morikawa, Cameron Smith, Adam Scott, and
… and a sheet of tee left us like this (all the time bst, gb & i unless said). NASA!
0935 Matti Schmid, Corey Conners
0945 Sepp Straka, Hideki Matsuyama
0955 Takumi Kayaya, Adrien Saddier
1005 SEBASTIAN SODERBERG, HENRIK STENSON
1015 Thomas Detry, Jacob Skov Olesen
1025 Nathan Kimsey, Bryson Dechambeau
1035 Maverick McNealy, Thriston Lawrence
1045 Justin Leonard, John Parry
1100 Andrew Novak, Sergio Garcia
1110 Jesper Svensson, Francesco Molinari
1120 Riki Kawamoto, Wyndham Clark
1130 Shane Lowry, Jon Rahm
1140 JJ Spaun, Dustin Johnson
1150 Phil Mickelson, Jhonattan Vegas
1200 Viktor Hovland, Jordan Spieth
1215 Russell Henley, Antoine Rozner
1225 Romain Langasque, Daniel Berger
1235 Sungjae Im, Dean Burmester
1245 Matt Wallace, Akshay Bhatia
1255 Jason Kokrak, Lucas Glover
1305 Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Thomas
1315 Aaron Rai, Rickie Fowler
1330 Marc Leishman, Oliver Lindell
1340 Ryggs Johnston, Xander Schauffele
1350 Kristoffer Reitan, Matthew Jordan
1400 ludvig Åberg, Justin Rose
1410 Harry Hall, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
1420 Sam Burns, Lee Westwood
1430 Jordan Smith, Rory Mcilroy
1445 Keegan Bradley, Nicolai Højgaard
1455 Tony Finau, Chris Gotterup
1505 Harris English, Robert Macintyre
1515 Tyrrell Hatton, Rasmus Højgaard
1525 Haotong Li, Brian Harman
1535 Matt Fitzpatrick, Scottie Scheffler
