It’s the final Major of the year as the world’s best golfers bid for the Open Championship at Royal Troon.
You can follow all the action right here over the next few days.
Irish in action:
Rory McIlroy +2 (9)
Shane Lowry (14.59)
Darren Clarke (13.48)
Padraig Harrington (14.15)
Tom McKibbin +2 (73)
Liam Nolan (A) (16.05)
Rory McIlroy plays a lovely chip on nine and walks away with par.
There are yells of fore right as he sends his iron into the gorse down the right of the fairway. He gets back on track with a brave second shot, and will have a chance to get up and down to save par.
The Northern Irishman was one of the early starters and he sits in tied 48th position, on +2 after the first round
His tee-shot wasn’t precise enough and it ends up in the sand. He takes two attempts to get out of there, then misses a fifteen footer for bogey and walks off with a double.
He takes two attempts to get out of the sand on the par three eight.
His ball was initially sitting in a very awkward lie and his attempt doesn’t have enough on it, and rolls straight back into the sand.
It sits up better second time around but he’s still in bother, leaving himself with a twenty footer for bogey.
McIlroy’s approach to the ‘postage stamp’ wasn’t accurate enough and eventually after looking like it would on to the top edge, it falls instead into a green-side bunker.
After shooting into an early lead on -4, two-time major champ Justin Thomas has dropped back to -1 after following a double bogey on twelve with a bogey soon on thirteen.
He couldn’t do much better with the putt, ending up three foot away and he makes no mistake.
MK Kim joins Justin Rose, Alex Noren, Nicolai Hojgaard and Chris Kirk on -2 at the top of the leaderboard.
His drive was perfect but the strength of the breeze meant he had to lay up.
He leaves it 85 yards out but his accuracy lets him down from there, and he misses the fifteen footer for birdie.
Big opportunity coming up now for McIlroy, 290 yards out on a Par Five.
McIlroy’s approach came up short on five with the wind taking hold of it but he got up and down well and walks away with par.
He drops back to a group of four players on -2, with Alex Noren in the clubhouse with a 69.
Having gone astray with his tee-shot, he got back onto the fairway with his second before hitting a decent third into the heart of the green.
Meanwhile, US Open champ Bryson DeChambeau is struggling on +3 after five.
But it doesn’t go entirely to plan as he hooks it to shouts of fore-left. The end-result isn’t all that bad as it sits up in the gorse and he will have room to recover on this par five.
He taps in the short birdie putt to take that shot back. A perfect wedge with a little bit of spin for good measure did the trick for him there. He’ll be hoping for more of that.
He plays a beautiful wedge shot to no more than three foot on the third. He has that for birdie to make up for the bogey on one. Paul McGinley is saying in the Sky Sports commentary box that he played a round with McIlroy last week and that his wedges were scintillating from start to finish.