Then again, good starts are nothing new this year. “I did everything that you’re supposed to do around St. Just what you hope will happen when you’re starting off your week,” McIlroy said. His game is in good shape and he piled up five birdies through 12 holes, with only one careless play that led to his lone bogey on the 13th. Andrews, his first time back for the Open since 2010. “They are? I’m glad I’m not losing my mind,” Scheffler said. Andrews when the ground is crispy and the Open comes to the gray, old town. Then he realized that actually was the case. Scheffler tried to explain just how fast the links were playing by suggesting the ball was rolling faster on the fairways than on the greens. Xander Schauffele, coming off his second straight win last week, was in the group a 69. The large group at 66 included Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, Dustin Johnson and Barclay Brown, the English amateur who plays at Stanford. Dinwiddie had the best score of the afternoon, when the wind was at its strongest. Players Championship winner Cameron Smith and English qualifier Robert Dinwiddie each had a 67.
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“We did stuff like that a few times today,” Young said. Young figures he knows only a fraction of the secrets to Old Course - no one ever really figures it all out with so many conditions on the ground and in the air - and there was one occasion on the par-5 fifth when he looked at his note in the yardage book: “Hard left is better than right.” He went left and made birdie. And I think we thought our way around the way you have to out there.” “I don’t think that I played a perfect round of golf,” Young said. He missed two good chances, finished with a birdie and most importantly kept bogeys off his card. He reached 7-under through 12 holes with the wind helping on the inward nine. Young played smartly and took advantage of the birdie chances. Just two months ago, he contended into the final hour of the PGA Championship until finishing one shot out of a playoff. He has had one of the better rookie seasons on the PGA Tour, and the 25-year-old New Yorker is not the least bit daunted by the stage. Young was a surprise leader only because it’s his first time competing on an Open links. Good scores were available, and 54 players broke par, 26 of them with rounds in the 60s. There’s nothing you can do, unfortunately, about it. “The way the golf course is designed … to get better angles and better lines, you’ve got to hit across all the fairways. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick said after his 72. Players waited on the tee and in the fairway, and it didn’t help with so many players looking for the best angles to tight pins and playing to the left into other fairways. By late afternoon, the rounds were taking just over six hours. Nothing tested the patience like the constant waiting. Noteworthy: Of the 26 rounds in the 60s, only nine came from the afternoon wave. Andrews when trailing by more than three shots after the first round since J.H. Key statistic: No one has won a British Open at St. Putt of the day: Ian Poulter made an eagle putt from 50 yards across the ninth green.
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Shot of the day: Si Woo Kim holed out from the Road Hole bunker on the 17th hole in his second attempt to escape with par. Going nowhere: The rounds toward the end of the day were taking slightly more than six hours because of the fast conditions on the Old Course. Andrews:įading fast: Tiger Woods had two double bogeys in his round of 78, his second-highest score in the British Open. But around the greens here and just all the slopes and undulations and everything, I think as the tournament progresses, you’re going to get some funny bounces and it’s going to test your patience at times.”Ī brief look at the opening round of the 150th British Open at St.
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“OK, the 18th at Carnoustie was like a runway, that fairway. It’s the only way I can really describe it,” McIlroy said. “It’s the fiddliest Open that I’ve played. Throw in the humps and mounds and difficult pin positions, and the Old Course held its own.
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Andrews has seen far stronger gusts over its centuries of golf. Young and McIlroy didn’t have to contend with as much wind in the morning, though St. And that’s my responsibility tomorrow is to go ahead and do it - need to do it.” “Looks like I’m going to have to shoot 66 tomorrow to have a chance,” Woods said. Woods will try to avoid leaving early from St. He ended it by taking three putts through the Valley of Sin for a par and a 78, his second-worst score in his Open career. Woods began his round by hitting out of a divot into the Swilcan Burn for a double bogey.