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Eighty-four players will head into the last two rounds of the 2013 Open Championship lying within 13 shots of the lead. The halfway cut of 8-over par is the highest since 2008 at Royal Birkdale. Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez leads the field by one stroke at three under par while there is 15 players on eight over par including former Open Champion Todd Hamilton along with Australia’s Peter Senior who had been the first player to tee off on Thursday morning. However missing from the weekend ...

Australia’s Jason Day has played just a handful of majors but when it comes to remaining patient nothing has compared to the first two days of this year’s Open Championship at Muirfield. The 25-year old Queenslander, despite carrying an injury just below his left shoulder, is again well in contention to capture a first Major after rounds of 73 and 71 to be at two over par and just three shots behind Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez who leads golf’s oldest major on five under par Day ...

Ian Poulter got a laugh when he saw one of his many fans turn up to Muirfield today wearing a windmill over his head. Poulter took to Twitter following his opening round in this year’s championship posting the following comments:- Ian Poulter ‏@IanJamesPoulter 18 Jul Unfortunately the guys this afternoon will struggle with a few pin positions. 8th hole is a joke, 18th needs a windmill & clown face. Ian Poulter ‏@IanJamesPoulter 18 Jul Beyond angry at the moment, 5 bogeys ...

Lee Westwood and Tiger Woods are in good spots after two rounds of this year’s Open Championship at Muirfield. Westwood, who is looking to capture a first Major, was out at 9am earlier today adding a second day 68 to his 72 to move to three under par and then share of fifth place. The 14-time Major winning Woods teed off 44 minutes later and birdied the last in a level par 71 to be tied with Westwood. “I was pleased to have  been six-under through 12 because I was playing some great ...

Reigning Masters champion, Adam Scott confessed the sun-baked Muirfield greens are ‘getting pretty spooky’. Twelve months after Scott bogeyed his closing four holes to let slip victory at Royal Lytham and St. Annes and the champion Australian set about making ammends with a level par 71 in conditions on the east of Scotland more akin to Spain’s Costa del Sol. Scott posted four birdies and just as many bogeys to head to the second round trailing five shots behind fellow Augusta National ...

Three former Open champions, and each one well over the age of 40, are among the top-10 on the leader board after the first day of the 2013 Open. The trio of past Claret Jug winners include Mark O’Meara (aged 56) who shot a four under par 67, fellow American Tom Lehman (aged 54) shot a three under par 68 and 2004 Open winner Todd Hamilton (the baby of the trio at 47) signed off for a 69. O’Meara defeated Canadian Brian Watts at Royal Birkdale to win the 1998 Open and while the American ...