British Open Championship 2025 Updates: It's a Five-Way Tie for the 18-Hole Lead
ROYAL PORTRUSH, NORTHERN IRELAND, JUL 17 – Five players share a 4-under 67 lead at Royal Portrush, the largest tie after the first round since 1938, while weather conditions remain challenging for the 153rd British Open.
- At Royal Portrush, five players shared the lead at 4-under 67, marking the largest logjam since 1938.
- Royal Portrush sees 156 players vying for the Claret Jug, with defending champion Xander Schauffele aiming to retain his title, as weather conditions challenge the field.
- Among early standouts, Sadom Kaewkanjana, an ordained Buddhist monk, shot 3-under for his best major round since 2022, while Jacob Skov Olesen, a 26-year-old Dane, finished tied for the lead at-4 in his second major.
- Throughout Thursday, wind and rain caused slow play, extending rounds to nearly six hours, with the Open affected by challenging weather conditions.
- DataGolf projects the cut line may move to +2, with 71 players in contention after round one.
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Five tied atop British Open leaderboard amid unpredictable weather
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Sunlight streaked through a few low-hanging clouds when Padraig Harrington opened the British Open with a piercing 3-iron into the wind. Darkness began covering Royal Portrush nearly 16 hours later Thursday night when the final group trudged off the 18th green. One of the longest days was also among the more fickle in the 165 years of this major. Five players from five countries tied for the lead at 4-under 67, the b…
Eric Larson’s past is keeping him out of the UK and off Harris English’s British Open bag
Harris English walked off Royal Portrush on Thursday evening in the sixth-to-last group of the day with a share of the first-round British Open lead at 4-under par. But he did so without his trusty caddie of more than eight years toting his bag off the 18th green.
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