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Australia’s Adam Scott posted the lowest score of the afternoon group on day one of the 143rd Open and then advised his compatriot Bryden MacPherson to go have a few beers after the 23-year old shot an opening score of 90. Scott mastered the bright but difficult afternoon conditions with a four under par 68 to be trailing just two strokes behind Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy. McIlroy once again jumped from the blocks to take the lead and just a week after setting a then new Royal Aberdeen ...

Tiger Woods was delighted to shoot a three under par 69 in his first Major Championship this season but then took a swipe at Royal Liverpool spectators for their inconsiderate use of mobile phones. It was during the 2006 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool where the use of mobile phones was out of control so much so the R & A, as organizers of golf’s oldest Major, banned the use of phones for the 2007 Open Championship at Carnoustie. However the R & A seeing the benefit of modern ...

Rory McIlroy stormed to the front of the 143rd Open Championship with a sizzling six under par 66 in superb scoring conditions at Royal Liverpool. The double Major winner didn’t drop a shot in posting three birdies over his front nine and then the same number of birdies over his inward nine to lead golf’s oldest Major by a stroke. It is the second occasion McIlroy has led golf’s oldest major having shot a new Old Course record 63 on the first day of the 2010 Open Championship at ...

England’s David Howell got the 143rd Open Championship underway here this morning  at Royal Liverpool. Howell was easily recognisable when he stepped onto the first tee wearing a bright yellow/green shirt and after the hand shakes began munching on a banana. Then at 6.25am he was introduced by Official Starter Ivor Robson. The 39-year old Howell, and reigning Alfred Dunhill Links champion, hit a 2-iron hybrid club to start his 12th Open appearance and his first since finishing T52nd in the ...

Current PGA Tour and European Tour No. 1 Henrik Stenson caught up with two players who were no doubt an inspiration to him when setting out on his professional career. Waiting to interview Stenson after his formal press conference on the eve of this week’s 143rd Open Championship was fellow Swedish-born professional Pierre Fulke and Pierre Ulrich Johansson. Between them Fulke and Johansson captured eight European Tour events. The first of Fulke’s three European Tour wins came at the 1999 ...

Jason Day can easily sympathize with Tiger Woods given both player have missed some three months of competition through injury this year. Day is only returning to competition after an injury to his left thumb that has seen this year’s WGC – Accenture Match-Play champion play only nine events this year. And Woods is teeing-up this week in only his second event since March’s WGC – Cadillac Championship, and after undergoing back surgery. Day was heading to the Royal Liverpool ...

This week marks the 10-year anniversary Todd Hamilton captured the Open Championship with what was then really the world’s first hybrid club. After Ben Curtis’ shock win the year before at Royal St George’s, it was the turn of another American in Hamilton to win golf’s oldest Major. However while Hamilton was not a household name in the States, even though he had won the Honda Classic for a maiden PGA Tour win earlier that year, he was very well known in Asia, particularly Japan, ...