West Midlands golfers Aaron Rai and Richard Mansell were attempting to make progress up the leaderboard at the 152nd Open Championship today.
They sit either side of the projected cut line at the end of the first round with Rai on two over par and Mansell on four-over.
Five successive pars followed for the former Shropshire & Herefordshire junior before dropping shots at the seventh and eighth holes. Mansell, from Burntwood, is not coming into the tournament on such good form – though he did equal the course record of 61 at The Renaissance Club on his way to qualifying for The Open at the Scottish Open last week.
Three more bogeys – at the fourth, 15th and 17th – left him on four-over ahead of an early start to his second round at 6.57am this morning.
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