The fourth and final major is taking place from Liverpool, England. Here are live updates of the 2023 British Open.
10:17 AM ET–There are currently two players tied for the lead at -5. There you can find England’s Tommy Fleetwood and South African amateur Christo Lamprecht. American major champions Stewart Cink and Wyndham Clark are tied for third at -3…Six golfers are at -2…those are Mexico’s Abraham Ancer, France’s Antoine Rozner and Romain Langasque, Sweden’s Alexander Bjork, and American major champ Jordan Spieth and England’s Matthew Jordan…Cink won the 2009 British Open, Clark won the 2023 United States Open, and Spieth won a major thrice…Spieth won the Masters and United States Open in 2015 and British Open in 2017
10:28 AM ET–Not many may not have heard of Lamprecht…he is 6’8″, attends Georgia Tech, and won the 2023 British Amateur Championship in Southport…
10:33 AM ET–In a trip down memory lane, when Cink won the 2009 British Open, he beat 59-year-old Tom Watson in a playoff…Cink is now 50 years of age…
10:39 AM ET–Bjork birdies the 11th to improve to -3…
10:41 AM ET–There are three more golfers at -2…there you can find Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, American Brian Harman and South Korea’s Si Woo Kim…
10:41 AM ET–Rozner birdies the 16th hole to improve to -3…
10:44 AM ET–The players on the leaderboard who have finished their round are Lamprecht, Fleetwood, Cink, Clark, Jordan, Spieth and Kim…
11:03 AM ET–One interesting voice in Golf Channel’s coverage is Nick Faldo..the Englishman who won three British Opens and three Masters in his outstanding golf career retired from CBS at the end of last year…
11:08 AM ET–Spain’s Adrian Otaegui birdies the 13th hole to improve to -2…
11:14 AM ET–Lamprecht shoots the third best round by an amateur in British Open history today…he shot a 66…the only two players who have shot a lower round were England’s Tom Lewis in 2011 and Germany’s Matti Schmid in 2021, who each had a round of 65…
11:26 AM ET–Brian Harman birdies the ninth hole to improve to -3…
11:28 AM ET–Rozner birdies the 18th to finish at -4…it was an impressive long putt to finish his round…
11:34 AM ET–reminder that there are several players in the field that are part of the European tour…
11:41 AM ET–Two more golfers have joined the group at -2…they are England’s Tyrrell Hatton and American Max Homa….
11:48 AM ET–Otaegui birdies the 15th hole to improve to -3…
11:49 AM ET–Emiliano Grillo of Argentina birdies the 12th hole to improve to -2…Grillo won the Charles Schwab Challenge earlier this year in Dallas in a playoff over American Adam Schenk…
12:18 PM ET–McIlroy misses a short little putt on the eighth hole and drops to +1…
12:37 PM ET–Sweden’s Alex Noren is now -3 after an eagle on the 15th and birdie on the 16th…
12:39 PM ET–Four more golfers reach -2 and three back of Lamprecht and Fleetwood…they are American Keegan Bradley, Italy’s Guido Migliozzi, England’s Brandon Robinson Thompson and India’s Shubhankar Sharma
12:49 PM ET–Grillo birdies the 15th hole to improve to -3…
12:53 PM ET–Otaegui birdies the 18th to improve to -4…
1:20 PM ET–Homa birdies the 11th hole to improve to -3…Langasque finishes at -1, Sharma, Bradley and Robinson Thompson drop to -1…
1:25 PM ET–Grillo birdies the 17th hole to improve to -4…
1:45 PM ET–Grillo birdies the 18th hole…three-way tie for the lead at -5…others are Lamprecht and Fleetwood…
1:55 PM ET–First round is scheduled to have the best weather…
2 PM ET–Leaderboard: 1) Lamprecht, Fleetwood, Grillo -5 4) Rozner, Otaegui -4, 6) Cink, Clark, Noren, Harman, Homa -3, 11) Jordan, Spieth, Kim, Bjork, Bradley, Migliozzi -2…Bradley birdied the 15th hole to move into contention…
2:12 PM ET–Harman birdies 18th hole to finish at -4…
2:30 PM ET–Sharma birdies the 12th hole to improve to -2…another player now at -2 is Scotland’s Michael Stewart who birdied the 11th hole…
2:49 PM ET–Stewart drops back to -1 after bogeying the 13th hole…
2:50 PM ET–Golfers in contention who are still on the course are Homa (-3 after 16), Bradley (-2 after 17), Migliozzi (-2 after 14), Sharma (-2 after 13)…
2:56 PM ET–Bradley bogeys the 18th…posts a score of six on a par five to drop to -2…
3:04 PM ET–Stewart birdies the 14th hole to improve to -2…
3:30 PM ET–Sharma birdies the 15th hole to improve to -3 and in seventh…
4:30 PM ET–Stewart finishes his round by shooting -3, Migliozzi wraps up at -2, while Oliver Wilson of Mansfield, England is also now in contention at -2…
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