Here are live updates of the 2024 British Open from Royal Troon in Scotland….
8:30 AM ET–Justin Thomas of Louisville, Kentucky is the leader at -3…Thomas is a two-time major winner as he won the 2017 and 2022 PGA Championship….Thomas is the leader despite a double bogey on the 12th hole…
8:34 AM ET–There is a six-way tie for second place at -2…There you can find 2013 US Open champion Justin Rose of England, England’s Sam Hutsby, Americans Russell Henley and Maverick McNealy, Sweden’s Alex Noren, and Denmark’s Nicolai Hjogaard…
8:38 AM ET–There are five more players under par…they are 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott of Australia, American Chris Kirk, England’s Matt Wallace, Japan’s Masahiro Kawamura, and South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence…
8:40 AM ET–Hutsby birdies the seventh and is now tied with Thomas at -3…
8:54 AM ET–Hutsby double bogeys the eighth hole with a score of five on a par three…falls to -1…
8:59 AM ET–Two more golfers under par at -1 are Germany’s Alex Cejka and American Brendon Todd…
9:04 AM ET–Kawamura double bogeys the eighth and falls to +1…
9:05 AM ET–Hutsby bogeys the ninth and drops to even…
9:08 AM ET–McNealy bogeys the 12th and drops to -1…
9:24 AM ET–Sepp Straka, Austria’s greatest golfer ever is now at -1 after birdieing the fourth hole…11 players under par…
9:30 AM ET–United States Open champion Bryson DeChambeau eagles the 16th hole…improves to +5…
9:30 AM ET–Straka birdies the fifth and improves to -2…
9:35 AM ET–2015 PGA Championship winner Jason Day of Beaudesert, Australia birdies the fourth hole to improve to -1…also at -1 now are Kawamura and American Denny McCarthy….
9:58 AM ET–Straka bogeys the sixth and drops to -1…
9:58 AM ET–Todd bogeys the par five sixth hole to drop to even…
9:59 AM ET–Current leaderboard–1) Thomas -3, 2) Noren, Hojgaard, Rose, Henley -2…those at -2 and -3 are all in the clubhouse…then there is a seven way tie for sixth at -1…they are Scott, Day, McCarthy, Wallace, Kirk, McNealy, and Straka…Scott, Wallace and Kirk are in the clubhouse, while Day, McNealy, Straka and McCarthy are still on the course…
10:13 AM ET–American Eric Cole gets into red figures with a birdie putt on the fifth hole to improve to -1…
10:20 AM ET–Woods birdies the third hole with a very impressive putt…improves to -1…
10:24 AM ET–Todd birdies the eighth to improve to -1…
10:27 AM ET–Straka birdies the eighth hole to improve to -2…
10:30 AM ET–2022 British Open champion Cameron Smith triple bogeys the second to drop to +4…
10:37 AM ET–McCarthy, Lawrence and McNealy have all fell back to even par…
10:41 AM ET–three-time major winner Jordan Spieth of Dallas, Texas improves to -1 with a birdie on the third…won the 2015 Masters and United States Open, and the 2017 British Open…
10:43 AM ET–Woods bogeys the fourth hole to drop back to even par…
10:55 AM ET–Woods double bogeys the fifth to drop to +2…
10:57 AM ET–Xander Schauffele, the 2024 PGA Championship winner, birdies the fifth to improve to -1…
11:05 AM ET–Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka of USA collects third straight birdie on the sixth hole and is at -1…
11:05 AM ET–2019 British Open champion Shane Lowry of Northern Ireland birdied the fourth hole and is at -1…
11:07 AM ET–Emiliano Grillo of Argentina birdies the second hole and is at -1…
11:13 AM ET–England’s Matthew Jordan birdied the seventh…his second straight birdie after a bogey on the second hole to improve to -1…
11:13 AM ET–World number one Scottie Scheffler settles for par on the fourth hole after the golf ball went around the hole but not in…
11:18 AM ET–Jaime Montojo, a 19-year-old Spanish business student from Texas A&M University has a remarkable eagle with his approach shot on the first hole to improve to -2…
11:21 AM ET–Koepka birdies the seventh hole to improve to -2…
11:27 AM ET–Straka has a long bogey putt on the 11th hole and drops to -1…
11:39 AM ET–Two new names at -1 and under par..they are Canada’s Mackenzie Hughes and England’s Matthew Dodd-Berry…Dodd-Berry is an amateur who birdied the first…
11:43 AM ET–Day returns to under par at -1 after bogeying the ninth hole…
11:43 AM ET–Hughes birdies the fourth hole to improve to -2…
11:46 AM ET–Aguri Iwasaki of Japan birdies the first to improve to -1…
11:46 AM ET–Patrick Cantlay makes a birdie from the bunker to improve to even par on the eighth hole…
11:48 AM ET–Schauffele birdies the eighth hole to improve to -2…
12 PM ET–Lowry birdies the seventh hole and improves to -2…
12:03 PM ET–Koepka, Montojo and Hughes bogey and drop to -1…
12:03 PM ET–Englishman Sam Horsfield birdies the second and is at -1…
12:10 PM ET–Lowry birdies the eighth hole to improve to -3 and tied for the lead with Thomas…
12:14 PM ET–Englishman Daniel Brown birdies the third and is at -1…
12:16 PM ET–2022 United States Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick birdies the eighth hole and improves to -1…
12:20 PM ET–Hughes birdies the sixth and improves to -2…
12:22 PM ET–Grillo birdies the sixth and is -2…
12:22 PM ET–Tom Hoge birdies the seventh hole and improves to -1…
12:26 PM ET–Jordan birdies the 11th and improves to -2…
12:35 PM ET–Hoge birdies the eighth hole and improves to -2…
12:36 PM ET–Koepka birdies the 11th hole and improves to -2…
12:45 PM ET–Fitzpatrick bogeys the 10th hole and drops to even par…
12:45 PM ET–Grillo in all sorts of trouble in the bunker on the eighth hole…tries to get it out and the ball moves back to his feet…
12:52 PM ET–Grillo gets double bogey on the eighth and drops to even…
12:53 PM ET- Schauffele birdies the 11th with a moving train right behind him, and is at -3 alongside Lowry and Thomas…
12:57 PM ET–McNealy returns to -1 after birdieing the 15th hole…
1 PM ET–Brown birdies the fifth and improves to -2…
1:05 PM ET–Straka returns to -1 after birdieing the 17th hole…bogeyed the 11th and 12th holes…
1:12 PM ET–Lowry birdies the 11th hole…improves to -4…
1:17 PM ET–Hoge bogeys the ninth and drops to -1…
1:22 PM ET–Scheffler birdies the 11th to improve to -1…
2 PM ET–Cam Young misses a short putt…drops to +1…
2:01 PM ET–Hughes bogeys the 11th and drops to -1…
2:10 PM ET–Brown birdies the 10th and improves to -3…
2:13 PM ET–Jordan bogeys the 17th and drops to even…
2:30 PM ET–Dan Brown birdies the 11th hole and improves to -4 and a tie for the lead with Lowry…
2;35 PM ET–Hughes birdies the 13th and improves to -2…
2:38 PM ET–Leaderboard: 1) Shane Lowry–IRE -4 and Daniel Brown–ENG -4, 3) Justin Thomas–USA -3 4) Alex Noren–SWE, Nicolai Hojgaard–DEN, Justin Rose–ENG, Russell Henley–USA, Xander Schauffele–USA, Mackenzie Hughes–CAN -2 10) Adam Scott–AUS, Joe Dean–ENG, Matt Wallace–ENG, Chris Kirk–USA, Matt Fitzpatrick–ENG, Sepp Straka–AUT, Brooks Koepka–USA -1…
2:49 PM ET–Spieth eagles the 16th hole and improves to -1…
2:50 PM ET–Scheffler birdies the 16th hole and improves to -1…
2:51 PM ET–Woods bogeys 18th and is at +8…is in 140th place…
2:56 PM ET–Schauffele in clubhouse at -2…
3 PM ET–That is the end of Golf Channel’s coverage…leaderboard will be added once first round is completed…
5 PM ET–Brown is the round one leader at -6, followed by Lowry at -5 and Thomas at -3…
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