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Having announced Sung-jae Im’s blistering commencement pinch specified a fanfare, nan inevitable occurs. Bogey astatine 8. Just nan 1 par connected his paper truthful acold today. But John Parry is continuing successful nan correct direction, pursuing up his ace astatine 13 pinch birdie astatine 15. He’s -4 for nan tournament, alongside Wyndham Clark, who makes his 4th birdie of nan time astatine 12, and Matt Wallace, who’s made his 4th birdie of nan information astatine 7! Yeah, there’s a people retired location each right, for anyone whose irons are dialled in. If Scottie Scheffler’s driver behaves, opportunity goodnight to nan remainder of nan field.
… truthful there’s a people retired there, if personification wants it. Corey Conners is nan champion of nan bunch backmost successful nan clubhouse correct now, having changeable 66. The 33-year-old Canadian, who has ne'er really done it astatine nan Open before, is -4 overall, and that’s immoderate bully moving. And if that isn’t schematic enough, Sung-jae Im is presently 4 nether for his information done 7. And that’s pinch a bogey astatine 3. He’s made 5 birdies, astatine 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7, and is intelligibly of a mind to lucifer his top-ten decorativeness past twelvemonth astatine Troon astatine nan very least. He’s -4 for nan championship.
The upwind report. Sunny intervals, not excessively overmuch wind, and that’s been reflected successful nan early scoring, which we’ll get onto successful a minute. There’s a chance nan upwind will prime up later, and location could moreover beryllium immoderate rain, but don’t stake nan workplace connected immoderate of this decidedly happening, it’s nan Open, it’s an Irish summer, nan upwind is what it will be. Rain very overmuch apt tomorrow, mind.
Hole-in-one for Parry
Before we get into nan heavy of nan action, let’s kick-start our time pinch a sweetener rush: news of a hole-in-one! It’s already been a bully play for John Parry: nan 38-year-old from Harrogate won connected nan DP World Tour for nan first clip successful 15 years, astatine nan Mauritius Open; came 2nd astatine nan Kenya Open and nan Alfred Dunhill, and tied for 4th astatine nan Soudal Open. This mightiness conscionable beryllium nan highlight, though: a tee changeable drawn into nan 192-yard 13th which takes a mates of bounces and disappears into nan cup! He’s warmly congratulated by his playing partner, nan 1997 champion Justin Leonard. That matches nan feat of Emiliano Grillo, who aced this spread during nan first information backmost successful 2019. Parry is playing successful only his 2nd Open, having teed it up astatine St Andrews 3 years ago, finishing nan week successful a necktie for 62nd. He’s made a bigger people this time.

Preamble
Welcome to Moving Day astatine nan 153rd Open Championship! After 36 holes, nan apical of nan leaderboard looked for illustration this …
-10: Scottie Scheffler
-9: Matt Fitzpatrick
-8: Brian Harman, Haotong Li
-5: Rasmus Højgaard, Tyrrell Hatton, Robert MacIntyre, Harris English, Chris Gotterup
-4: Tony Finau, Nicolai Højgaard
-3: Keegan Bradley, Rory McIlroy, Jordan Smith, Lee Westwood, Sam Burns
… while these (selected) large names missed nan trim …
Joaquin Niemann, Jason Day, Ryan Fox, Zach Johnson, Kim Si-woo, Tom Kim, Tom McKibbin, Patrick Cantlay, Stewart Cink, Cameron Young, Min Woo Lee, Patrick Reed, Louis Oosthuizen, Darren Clarke, Brooks Koepka, Collin Morikawa, Cameron Smith, Adam Scott, and Padraig Harrington
… and that near america pinch a tee expanse that looked for illustration this (all times BST, GB&I unless stated). It’s on!
0935 Matti Schmid, Corey Conners
0945 Sepp Straka, Hideki Matsuyama
0955 Takumi Kanaya, Adrien Saddier
1005 Sebastian Soderberg, Henrik Stenson
1015 Thomas Detry, Jacob Skov Olesen
1025 Nathan Kimsey, Bryson DeChambeau
1035 Maverick McNealy, Thriston Lawrence
1045 Justin Leonard, John Parry
1100 Andrew Novak, Sergio Garcia
1110 Jesper Svensson, Francesco Molinari
1120 Riki Kawamoto, Wyndham Clark
1130 Shane Lowry, Jon Rahm
1140 JJ Spaun, Dustin Johnson
1150 Phil Mickelson, Jhonattan Vegas
1200 Viktor Hovland, Jordan Spieth
1215 Russell Henley, Antoine Rozner
1225 Romain Langasque, Daniel Berger
1235 Sungjae Im, Dean Burmester
1245 Matt Wallace, Akshay Bhatia
1255 Jason Kokrak, Lucas Glover
1305 Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Thomas
1315 Aaron Rai, Rickie Fowler
1330 Marc Leishman, Oliver Lindell
1340 Ryggs Johnston, Xander Schauffele
1350 Kristoffer Reitan, Matthew Jordan
1400 Ludvig Åberg, Justin Rose
1410 Harry Hall, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
1420 Sam Burns, Lee Westwood
1430 Jordan Smith, Rory McIlroy
1445 Keegan Bradley, Nicolai Højgaard
1455 Tony Finau, Chris Gotterup
1505 Harris English, Robert MacIntyre
1515 Tyrrell Hatton, Rasmus Højgaard
1525 Haotong Li, Brian Harman
1535 Matt Fitzpatrick, Scottie Scheffler