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Rory McIlroy shot a brilliant 66 yesterday to end the round in solo second place but we won’t be seeing the second leg of his Claret Jug bid until much later today. Rory tees off at 2.59pm local alongside in-form Xander Schauffele and defending champion Collin Morikawa.
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By contrast, Tiger Woods has a mountain to climb after a miserable 6-over 78 left him way off the cut mark which is projected to be around even par. Woods is a morning starter at 9.58am.
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Our leader Cameron Young heads off from the iconic opening tee at 1.26pm local. Let’s see all those Friday tee-times.
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6.35am: Mark Calcavecchia, Ryan Fox, Jediah Morgan
6.46am: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Bernd Wiesberger, Sam Bairstow
6.57am: Adrian Meronk, Haotong Li, Marcus Armitage
7.08am: Thriston Lawrence, Fabrizio Zanotti, Alex Wrigley
7.19am: Aaron Wise, Si Woo Kim, Sam Horsfield
7.30am: Talor Gooch, Shaun Norris, Wyndham Clark
7.41am: Henrik Stenson, Russell Henley, Aldrich Potgieter (a)
7.52am: Stewart Cink, Sergio Garcia, Aaron Jarvis (a)
8.03am: Sungjae Im, Paul Casey, Gary Woodland
8.14am: Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Marc Leishman
8.25am: Scottie Scheffler, Joaquin Niemann,Tyrrell Hatton
8.36am: Darren Clarke, Richard Bland, Filippo Celli (a)
8.47am: Kevin Na, Kazuki Higa, Erik Van Rooyen
9.03am: David Duval, Justin Harding, Jordan Smith
9.14am: Shugo Imahira, Jason Scrivener, David Law
9.25am: Abraham Ancer, Yuto Katsuragawa, Emiliano Grillo
9.36am: Louis Oosthuizen, Harris English, Keita Nakajima (a)
9.47am: Padraig Harrington, Thomas Pieters, Keith Mitchell
9.58am: Tiger Woods, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Max Homa
10.09am: Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm, Harold Varner III
10.20am: Patrick Cantlay, Sam Burns, Mito Pereira
10.31am: Keegan Bradley, Sebastián Muñoz, Sahith Theegala
10.42am: Laurie Canter, Dimitrios Papadatos, Matthew Griffin
10.53am: John Catlin, Jamie Rutherford, David Carey
11.04am: Mingyu Cho, Jorge Fernández Valdés, Robert Dinwiddie
11.15am: Lars Van Meijel, Jack Floydd, Ronan Mullarney
11.36am: Paul Lawrie, Webb Simpson, Min Woo Lee
11.47am: Sadom Kaewkanjana, Ben Campbell, Barclay Brown (a)
11.58am: Dean Burmester, Chan Kim, Brandon Wu
12.09pm: Ian Poulter, Jamie Donaldson, Guido Migliozzi
12.20pm: Garrick Higgo, MinKyu Kim, Ashley Chesters
12.31pm: Phil Mickelson, Lucas Herbert, Kurt Kitayama
12.42pm: Patrick Reed, Tom Hoge, JooHyung Kim
12.53pm: John Daly, Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Tringale
1.04pm: Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka, Seamus Power
1.15pm: Francesco Molinari, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose
1.26pm: Cameron Young, Kyoung-Hoon Lee, Robert MacIntyre
1.37pm: Zach Johnson, Billy Horschel, Corey Conners
1.48pm: Brian Harman, Pablo Larrazabal, Danny Willett
2.04pm: Stephen Dodd, JT Poston, Lee Westwood
2.15pm: Sepp Straka, Luke List, Justin De Los Santos
2.26pm: Ernie Els, Adri Arnaus, Brad Kennedy
2.37pm: Mackenzie Hughes, Scott Vincent, Victor Perez
2.48pm: Jason Kokrak, Nicolai Højgaard, Sihwan Kim
2.59pm: Collin Morikawa, Rory McIlroy, Xander Schaufele
3.10pm: Shane Lowry, Justin Thomas, Viktor Hovland
3.21pm: Will Zalatoris, Hideki Matsuyama, Tony Finau
3.32pm: Kevin Kisner, Chris Kirk, Takumi Kanaya
3.43pm: Dylan Frittelli, Trey Mullinax, Matthew Jordan
3.54pm: Anthony Quayle, Zander Lombard, John Parry
4.05pm: Thomas Detry, Richard Mansell, Marco Penge
4.16pm: Alexander Björk, Oliver Farr, Matt Ford
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Key events:
The tucked front pin on the 1st is still catching a few out.
Haotong Li racked up a triple-bogey seven after his first approach pinged back from the Swilcan Burn and his second landed straight in it! Aussie Marc Leishman also found the wet stuff and took six.
Scottie Scheffler cleared it but perhaps too comfortably. A long way from the hole, he needed three putts to get down so that’s an opening bogey. Back to -3 although he’s launched a lovely tee shot from the 2nd.
As play seemed to get slower and slower yesterday and groups backed up on tees and fairways, it seemed unlikely that the final groups would complete in time.
They did – just – and it was 10.10pm when England’s Robert Dinwiddie birdied the closing hole to complete a 67 and share third place. A long day ahead then!
Talking of Englishmen, Marcus Armitage has just rolled in a birdie putt from around 15 feet at the 6th. Back-to-back pair breakers and he’s up to the tied 13th.
The big names are coming thick and fast and here goes the world No 1 Scottie Scheffler.
A low iron down the 1st fairway accompanied by his trademark foot slide through impact and the American is off and running.
Up at the green, a three-putt bogey for Dustin Johnson. DJ drops back to -3, now one back from Scheffler and five behind leader Cameron Young.
Others to have gone further under par this morning are Ryan Fox and Marcus Armitage.
Kiwi Fox, the son of rugby union legend Grant, has broken a run of seven pars with a birdie at 8 while England’s Armitage has a scorecard showing 4-4-4-4-4. That equates to four pars and a birdie at the long 5th. Both have nudged up to -2, currently tied 26th.
The R&A must be fearful of a LIV golfer winning their historic 150th Open Championship. Dustin Johnson, a two-time major champion, is probably the biggest threat to that, let’s say it, nightmare scenario and he’s just teed off at the 1st, punching an iron down the huge fairway.
With less wind and a slighter soft course, that will suit Johnson, who starts the day four off the lead at -4.
Or maybe Talor Gooch will be the man to induce full squirm as he rolls in a 10 footer at the 3rd hole to give him a second birdie of the day. Gooch joins McIlroy in tied second at -6.
Matt Cooper, who is sharing blog duties with me this week, is live at St Andrews. So, set the scene please Matt. What’s the weather doing? How are course conditions?
“Feels obtainable this morning. Streets wet on the walk to town. Not so wet that you definitely need waterproofs. Not much wind.
“Not enough rain to genuinely change the dynamic. Just offering the field a bit of help.”
Some early moves on the leaderboard from Talor Gooch and Si Woo Kim. American Gooch, who switched to LIV last month, holed for birdie at the 1st to jump up to -5 and that’s good enough for tied third.
Kim, a former winner of The Players Championship, also birdied the opener to get to -4 and has stayed there with a pair of pars.
Off to a flyer, Talor Gooch 🐦 #The150thOpen pic.twitter.com/ai6q0gDSGV
— The Open (@TheOpen) July 15, 2022
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Pin positions for round two. More tucking going on.
Pin positions for Round 2 of #The150thOpen 👇 pic.twitter.com/KcAt1ZxZwJ
— The Open (@TheOpen) July 15, 2022
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Right, let’s go on day two. And to get you in the mood… this. Fun fact: composer Brian Bennett was the drummer in The Shadows.
Preamble
Good morning from the 150th Open Championship! It’s day two at St Andrews and the early starters have the waterproofs on due to some morning drizzle.
Rory McIlroy shot a brilliant 66 yesterday to end the round in only second place but we won’t be seeing the second leg of his Claret Jug bid until much later today. Rory tees off at 2.59pm local alongside in-form Xander Schauffele and defending champion Collin Morikawa.
By contrast, Tiger Woods has a mountain to climb after a miserable 6-over 78 left him way off the cut mark which is projected to be around even par. Woods is a morning starter at 9.58am.
Our leader Cameron Young heads off from the iconic opening tee at 1.26pm local. Let’s see all those Friday tee-times.
6.35am: Mark Calcavecchia, Ryan Fox, Jediah Morgan
6.46am: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Bernd Wiesberger, Sam Bairstow
6.57am: Adrian Meronk, Haotong Li, Marcus Armitage
7.08am: Thriston Lawrence, Fabrizio Zanotti, Alex Wrigley
7.19am: Aaron Wise, Si Woo Kim, Sam Horsfield
7.30am: Talor Gooch, Shaun Norris, Wyndham Clark
7.41am: Henrik Stenson, Russell Henley, Aldrich Potgieter (a)
7.52am: Stewart Cink, Sergio Garcia, Aaron Jarvis (a)
8.03am: Sungjae Im, Paul Casey, Gary Woodland
8.14am: Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Marc Leishman
8.25am: Scottie Scheffler, Joaquin Niemann, Tyrrell Hatton
8.36am: Darren Clarke, Richard Bland, Filippo Celli (a)
8.47am: Kevin Na, Kazuki Higa, Erik Van Rooyen
9.03am: David Duval, Justin Harding, Jordan Smith
9.14am: Shugo Imahira, Jason Scrivener, David Law
9.25am: Abraham Ancer, Yuto Katsuragawa, Emiliano Grillo
9.36am: Louis Oosthuizen, Harris English, Keita Nakajima (a)
9.47am: Padraig Harrington, Thomas Pieters, Keith Mitchell
9.58am: Tiger Woods, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Max Homa
10.09am: Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm, Harold Varner III
10.20am: Patrick Cantlay, Sam Burns, Mito Pereira
10.31am: Keegan Bradley, Sebastian Munoz, Sahith Theegala
10.42am: Laurie Canter, Dimitrios Papadatos, Matthew Griffin
10.53am: John Catlin, Jamie Rutherford, David Carey
11.04am: Mingyu Cho, Jorge Fernandez Valdes, Robert Dinwiddie
11.15am: Lars Van Meijel, Jack Floydd, Ronan Mullarney
11.36am: Paul Lawrie, Webb Simpson, Min Woo Lee
11.47am: Sadom Kaewkanjana, Ben Campbell, Barclay Brown (a)
11.58am: Dean Burmester, Chan Kim, Brandon Wu
12.09pm: Ian Poulter, Jamie Donaldson, Guido Migliozzi
12.20pm: Garrick Higgo, MinKyu Kim, Ashley Chesters
12.31pm: Phil Mickelson, Lucas Herbert, Kurt Kitayama
12.42pm: Patrick Reed, Tom Hoge, Joo Hyung Kim
12.53pm: John Daly, Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Tringale
1.04pm: Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka, Seamus Power
1.15pm: Francesco Molinari, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose
1.26pm: Cameron Young, Kyoung-Hoon Lee, Robert MacIntyre
1.37pm: Zach Johnson, Billy Horschel, Corey Conners
1.48pm: Brian Harman, Pablo Larrazabal, Danny Willett
2.04pm: Stephen Dodd, JT Poston, Lee Westwood
2.15pm: Sepp Straka, Luke List, Justin De Los Santos
2.26pm: Ernie Els, Adrian Arnaus, Brad Kennedy
2.37pm: Mackenzie Hughes, Scott Vincent, Victor Perez
2.48pm: Jason Kokrak, Nicolai Højgaard, Sihwan Kim
2.59pm: Collin Morikawa, Rory McIlroy, Xander Schaufele
3.10pm: Shane Lowry, Justin Thomas, Viktor Hovland
3.21pm: Will Zalatoris, Hideki Matsuyama, Tony Finau
3.32pm: Kevin Kisner, Chris Kirk, Takumi Kanaya
3.43pm: Dylan FrittelliTrey MullinaxMatthew Jordan
3.54pm: Anthony Quayle, Zander Lombard, John Parry
4.05pm: Thomas Detry, Richard Mansell, Marco Penge
4.16pm: Alexander Björk, Oliver Farr, Matt Ford
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