The Open 2019: first round – live!

Updates from the first round at Royal PortrushThe official live leaderboard for the 148th OpenSign up for The Recap, our free weekly email of editors’ picksAnd feel free to email scott.murray@theguardian.com 2.50pm BST Another birdie for Jordan Spieth! That one comes at the short par-four 5th, and the 2017 champ is flying. He’s -3. His pal Justin Thomas, a couple of holes ahead, is however struggling. Having opened with bogey, then made a double at 4, he’s repaired some of the damage with birdie at 5. But now at the par-five 7th, he’s left himself with a testing 12 footer to save his par. In it goes, but he stays at +2, and doesn’t look too happy with life at the moment. His playing partner Tommy Fleetwood birdies, though, his second of the day after the shot picked up at 3. Some of the later starters beginning to make inroads at the top of the leaderboad.-4: Lowry (F)-3: Noren (F), Simpson (F), Garcia (F), Frittelli (F), MacIntyre (F), Aphibarnrat (F), Spieth (5)-2: Langasque (F), Kim (14), Fleetwood (7), Koepka (6) 2.42pm BST Nothing much rattles Brooks Koepka. He sends a double cross into the par-three 6th, and is left with a huge putt across the green. A good 70 feet or so. Most folk would do well to get it down in two; Koepka very nearly drains it. The ball stops one turn away, and he tidies up for par. He stays at -2. Continue reading…
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