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Darren Clark, the 2011 Open winner, is five-over after 14 while 2023 US Open champion Wyndham is five-over after 11. They’ll be glad when it’s all over. * At the top, leaders Thomas, Schauffele and Lowry are asking ‘catch us if you can’. Anyway…Grillo kicks his putter in frustration as he becomes the 18th player to rack up a double bogey or worse at the ickle 118-yard Postage Stamp 8th.
Always one of the hardest holes on the course, it’s averaging 4.27 today so that’s one against the head. It takes the five-time major winner back into the big bunch at -2, one back. But staying on 11 and Tiger, like Rory earlier, looks to have splayed one out of bounds and onto the railway line. Fun fact: Jack Nicklaus took a 10 there in 1962. Tiger hits a provisional but it’s probably three off the tee.Time for a leaderboard update which shows an expanding bunch at -2.
He can’t get up and down and turns in 35 strokes. Mackenzie Hughes goes from bunker to bunker at the par-three 5th and does well to limit the damage to bogey, but he’s back to -1. And there’s disaster unfolding for Collin Morikawa at the Postage Stamp. He mishits his tee shot so badly that it stops short and wide of the bunker guarding the right-hand side of the green.
Coming behind, the 2017 champ Jordan Spieth, who birdies 3. Meanwhile on 2, Emiliano Grillo and Mackenzie Hughes both make birdie to join what is now a 16-strong contingent under par.-1: A Scott , Wallace , Kirk , Jordan , Koepka , Schauffele , Lowry , Spieth , Grillo , Hughes He’s not done too much at the Open since, but having broken his major duck in the PGA earlier this year, and finished in the top ten at the other two majors, this could be his time. Birdie at 5 moves him into the red.
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