The 151st British Open is taking place from the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake. Here are live updates.
10:39 AM ET–Biggest story from the second round so far is that Brian Harman of Savannah, Georgia has a significant lead. The 36-year-old is at -10 and has a five stroke lead on England’s Tommy Fleetwood. Harman had a sensational start and a fantastic finish on Friday. He birdied the second, third, fourth and fifth holes, and then eagled the 18th hole. On the final hole, Harman had a 346 yard tee shot, 244 yard approach shot and then a 14 yard putt that put him into double digits for the final major of the season.
10:50 PM ET–Harman entered the second round of the British Open in fourth place and one stroke back of the leaders–Christo Lamprecht of George, South Africa, Emiliano Grillo of Resistencia, Argentina, and Tommy Fleetwood of Southport, England.
10:51 PM ET–Harman has won twice before on the PGA Tour. His victories came at the 2014 John Deere Classic and the 2017 Wells Fargo Championship.
11:49 PM ET–Bogey for Spieth on the 10th…dropped to -4…closest golfer to Harman is Antoine Rozner of France, who is -5…
12:06 PM ET–Rozner bogeys the third and falls to -4, tied for second with Spieth and Fleetwood…
12:06 PM ET–Spieth bogeys the 11th hole and drops to -3, and now a converted touchdown back of Harman…Fleetwood and Rozner alone in second place…
12:31 PM ET–Fleetwood makes a 58 foot, six inch birdie putt on the 10th hole to improve to -5…five strokes back of Harman and in second place…
1:24 PM ET–Spieth misses short par putt…drops to -2…
1:24 PM ET–Leaderboard: 1) Harman -10 2) Fleetwood -4 3) Min Woo Lee of Australia, Shubhankar Sharma of India, Cameron Young and Wyndham Clark of the United States, Sepp Straka of Austria -3
1:31 PM ET–Clark unable to get the ball out of the bunker on the 13th hole…golf ball actually momentarily went out of the bunker and rolled back in…
1:37 PM ET–Fleetwood birdies the 14th hole to return to -5…
1:44 PM ET–Matt Fitzpatrick is having all sorts of trouble on the 17th hole…had three attempts out of the bunker…
2:09 PM ET–Fleetwood birdies the 15h hole to improve to -6…
2:14 PM ET–Fleetwood lands in the rough on the 16th hole…
2:20 PM ET–Raining is starting in Liverpool…
2:27 PM ET–Fleetwood makes a nice long bogey putt on the 16th hole, but drops down to -5 in the process…
2:35 PM ET–Fleetwood makes key putt on the par three 17th hole…
3:04 PM ET–Fleetwood pars the 18th hole and finishes at -5…
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