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Phil Mickelson stops to speak to the press but refuses to engage at 2024 British Open

Mickelson discussed Tiger, jogger pants and more.

TROON, Scotland – It used to be that if you asked Phil Mickelson a question, you were bound to get a lengthy answer of some sort. He loved to expound on a variety of topics and any time he was scheduled to speak to the press you wanted to be there to listen, uncapped pen at the ready knowing you could count on him to fill a notebook and provide snappy quotes and anecdotes that would jump off the page. In short, he was good copy.

But these days, ever since he went to LIV and really dating to the moment he got burned by some of what he believed to be off-the-record remarks being published, Mickelson has gone mute.

He rarely does pre-tournament press conferences anymore, even this week at the return to the site of his famous duel with Henrik Stenson in 2016 he was not one of the players to participate, and he declined to speak to the media after the first two rounds. But on Saturday, after posting a 1-over 72 in the third round of the 152nd British Open, Mickelson agreed to stop and field questions from the media.

He said he enjoyed the round and always loves coming to Troon, a place with fond memories despite coming up short in 2004 and 2016.

He detailed his adventures at the Postage Stamp, where he found The Coffin Bunker and had to contort his legs and aim away from the flag to extricate himself from a dreadful lie.

“That hole is one of the greats,” he said. “I’m trying to make par. I’m not trying to make two. If I make four, I’m not that upset. It’s a hole that you’ve seen it dismantle a bunch of opportunities for players to win, and you just don’t want to make the big number. Bogeys are fine there if it happens, but it’s just one of the great holes in the game.”

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Asked to name where this week’s test ranked among the British Opens he’s played in, he said it was premature to say with another round to go. “I’ve played this course in all different winds, and it’s like playing the course for the first time,” he said. “Every time you get a different wind. It’s incredible. It’s just one of the best designs in the world.”

On the subject of his wearing joggers after losing a bet to YouTube star Grant Horvath, Mickelson waxed on and on about discovering the YouTube audience and over several follow-up questions blathered on about why a 54-year-old man would be wearing joggers again for Sunday’s final round.

“Out here where the wind is blowing and my pants are getting caught on the socks, whatever, they’re not. I really do like them,” he said.

But when the subject shifted to Tiger Woods and PGA Tour and LIV Mickelson suddenly became reticent. Asked if he conversed with Tiger on the range earlier this week when the two greats were set up next to each other, he said, “We said hi. Yeah, we said hi, but we were both preparing. It’s not like we’re going to sit there and chat. But we said hello, yeah.”

Could he and Tiger work out the golf world’s problems?

“I don’t know. We’ll see. We’ll see,” said Mickelson.

Asked what he would say if he’d been told a year ago that the PGA Tour-PIF negotiations hadn’t resulted in any changes or resolution yet, he said, “ Look, I don’t know about that stuff. I’m not involved. I’m not sitting in those rooms. I am enjoying where I’m at and what I’m doing and playing. I’ll let other people figure that stuff out. “

Another reporter wondered if Mickelson would prefer there to be peace in the pro golf ranks, “that everybody was happy about it?”

Mickelson paused and considered his words. A man who used to love to hear himself speak said simply, “You know, it would be great. It would be great.”

And with that Mickelson was done engaging, although it’s debatable whether he had ever started at all.

For sale: This semi-detached house in the middle of Royal Troon could be yours if the price is right

In the real estate world, the saying is, location, location, location!

TROON, Scotland – In the real estate world, the saying is, location, location, location!

For a golf fan, it doesn’t get much better than “Blackrock House,” a semi-detached house in the center of Royal Troon Golf Club, and it recently went on the market for the princely sum of £1.5 million.

Situated on Crosbie Road and with views of five holes of the course hosting its 10th British Open this week, the home has been put on the market this week by the children of David and Isabel Kelly, who lived there for the last four Opens at Troon, dating to Mark Calcavecchia’s playoff victory in 1989.

David died less than two years ago at age 91. Isabel died recently.

“This is a different Open for us because our mother has just passed away in the last month,” Andrew Kelly told The Associated Press.

The house, which appears on maps as early as 1878, when Troon was established as a six-hole course, is located between the second and 16th holes. It also offers views of the third, 17th and 18th tee.

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“And seeing them teeing on the 18th as well,” Andrew Kelly said of the last tee, directly in front of the house. “It’s fantastic, you’re right here and you’ve got everything going on around you. You’re spoiled for choice, to be honest.”

Blackrock House is actually two semi-detached houses – 14 and 16 Crosbie Road, Troon. The Gregorys bought No. 16 in 2007 and the Kelly house that is for sale is next door at No. 14.

For sale signs from realtor Strutt and Parker have drawn much interest but no showings this week, thank you very much.

Blackrock House is situated between the 2nd and 16th holes at Royal Troon GC (Adam Schupak/Golfweek)

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler said he noticed the property but that it didn’t stand out quite as much this week with corporate tents and oversized merchandise shop in the vicinity.

“If I came here six months from now when all the tents and all the build-out is gone, I think it would be a lot more unusual,” he said.

Troon doesn’t officially have another Open booked in the future just yet but expect an 11th edition to be held here on Scotland’s west coast somewhere between 8-12 years from now and for the next owner of Blackrock House, no tickets required.

2024 British Open Saturday third round tee times, how to watch at Royal Troon’s Old Course

Welcome to the weekend at Royal Troon’s Old Course.

We’re heading to the weekend at the 2024 British Open.

Shane Lowry, one back after 18 holes, holds a two-shot lead after 36 after his second-round 69 at Royal Troon’s Old Course in Scotland.

Daniel Brown, the first-round solo leader, is tied for second alongside Justin Rose, who drew one of the biggest roars Friday after making birdie on 18.

Joaquin Niemann had perhaps the most amazing even-par round in a while. He took an eight on the eighth hole, the famed Postage Stamp par 3 before going four under his final 10 holes to get into a tie for 11th halfway through.

Tiger Woods failed to make the weekend for a third straight major. Many other big names were slamming trunks Friday evening as well.

Saturday marquee groups

  • Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson
  • Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele
  • Scottie Scheffler, Dean Burmester
  • Billy Horschel, Justin Rose
  • Shane Lowry, Dan Brown

Here’s a look at the complete list of third round tee times for the 2024 British Open, as well as Saturday’s TV and streaming information. Note: All times listed are ET.

Saturday tee times

Time Players
3:55 a.m. Darren Fichardt, Tommy Morrison (a)
4:05 a.m. Guido Migliozzi, Max Homa
4:15 a.m. Shubhankar Sharma, Sungjae Im
4:25 a.m. Abraham Ancer, Luis Masaveu (a)
4:35 a.m. Matthew Fitzpatrick, Darren Clarke
4:45 a.m. Rickie Fowler, Jorge Campillo
4:55 a.m. Harris English, Robert MacIntyre
5:05 a.m. Aaron Rai, Matt Wallace
5:20 a.m. Adam Scott, Daniel Hiller
5:30 a.m. Andy Ogletree, Younghan Song
5:40 a.m. Si Woo Kim, Hideki Matsuyama
5:50 a.m. Davis Thompson, Phil Mickelson
6 a.m. Alex Cejka, Jacob Skov Olesen (a)
6:10 a.m. Ewen Ferguson, John Catlin
6:20 a.m. Sean Crocker, Brian Harman
6:30 a.m. Chris Kirk, Austin Eckroat
6:45 a.m. Matteo Manassero, Justin Thomas
6:55 a.m. Calum Scott (a), Joe Dean
7:05 a.m. Cameron Young, Kurt Kitayama
7:15 a.m. Byeong Hun-An, Brendon Todd
7:25 a.m. Rasmus Hojgaard, Ryan Fox
7:35 a.m. Richard Mansell, Thriston Lawrence
7:45 a.m. Thorbjorn Olesen, Laurie Canter
7:55 a.m. Tom McKibbin, Emiliano Grillo
8:10 a.m. Jordan Spieth, Sam Burns
8:20 a.m. Padraig Harrington, Eric Cole
8:30 a.m. Adrian Meronk, MK Kim
8:40 a.m. Matthieu Pavon, Russell Henley
8:50 a.m. Nicolai Hojgaard, Alex Noren
9 a.m. Jeunghun Wang, Tom Hoge
9:10 a.m. Sepp Straka, Gary Woodland
9:20 a.m. Marcel Siem, Jon Rahm
9:35 a.m. Mackenzie Hughes, Collin Morikawa
9:45 a.m. Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson
9:55 a.m. Joaquin Niemann, Matthew Jordan
10:05 a.m. Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele
10:15 a.m. Jason Day, Corey Conners
10:25 a.m. Scottie Scheffler, Dean Burmester
10:35 a.m. Bill Horschel, Justin Rose
10:45 a.m. Dan Brown, Shane Lowry

How to watch

Saturday, July 20

The R&A’s website is also streaming “Live at the Range” as well as featured groups and “Postage Stamp Live”, showing all the shots on the famed par 3.

Who is Daniel Brown? 5 things to know about the Englishman near the top of The Open leaderboard

Daniel Brown finished his second round on Friday at 5-under par.

The top of the leaderboard at The Open at Royal Troon features plenty of familiar names — and one that may look a bit strange even to the most avid golf fans.

Daniel Brown (no, not The Da Vinci Code author) finished his second round on Friday at 5-under par and solidly in second place behind Shane Lowry.

While stars like Tiger Woods, Wyndham Clark and Cameron Smith missed the cut at the final major of the year, Brown seems to have found his footing on the windy and wet links course.

So who is the weekend contender for the 152nd Open Championship? Here are five things to know.

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1. He’s a 29-year-old from Northallerton, England

Heading into The Open, Brown ranked No. 272 in the Official World Golf Ranking, so it’s really alright to admit you had never heard of him before The Open. Most golf fans hadn’t been given a reason to know him.

2. Dan Brown is playing in his first major tournament

Which is also the second reason many had never heard of him before. Brown is making his major debut in the United Kingdom’s biggest golf tournament and he made it through Thursday with a bogey-free round to hold the outright lead at 6-under.

But it’s not the first time Brown has been to The Open. As a teenager, Brown got to attend The Open at Royal Lytham & St. Annes in 2012 as Ernie Els won his second Claret Jug. If Brown was excited then, imagine how he feels now.

3. Brown only qualified for The Open three weeks ago

Maybe that’s helped him stay loose and not overthink things. Only 16 spots were available in a 36-hole final qualifying event for The Open and it took Brown sinking a 20-foot birdie putt on the 36th hole to secure his spot. After facing that type of pressure, playing The Open may feel less daunting.

But the story gets a bit more wild when you look at Brown’s recent form. In his last eight starts on the DP World Tour, the Englishman has made the cut just once — that was at last week’s Genesis Scottish Open.

4. Daniel Brown’s brother is caddying for him at The Open

Ben Brown, Daniel’s younger brother, also tried to qualify for The Open but missed out on a spot in the field. He’s still walking the course inside the ropes anyway thanks to his Daniel, who has been relying on him plenty this week.

“I like having him on the bag,” Brown said. “He’s good at reading greens, and he’s obviously a good golfer himself. So he can give good advice. To share sort of my first major with him on the bag is nice.”

5. Brown could become the third golfer to win a major debut in the last 100 years

That’s how improbable these first two days have been at Royal Troon.

Only Keegan Bradley (2011 PGA Championship) and Ben Curtis (2003 Open Championship) have won their major debut, but a win by Brown this week maybe even more improbable.

Bradley already had nine Top 25 finishes (including a win) earlier in the PGA Tour season before claiming his major victory. Curtis, meanwhile, was a 300-1 underdog at The Open in 2003. Brown entered The Open at more than double that length at 750-1 at BetMGM.

Lynch: Tiger Woods has never been less competitive, but he’s also never been more relevant

In a bitterly divided sport, Woods will play the role of pied piper.

TROON, Scotland — A fine line separates optimism from delusion, a narrow DMZ where the belief that things will improve collides with immovable facts that simply won’t support buoyancy. That’s the space where Tiger Woods’ fans have been living for years, and his early but not unexpected departure from the 152nd Open can only render as hollow casuistry the arguments of the diehard faithful. It was a performance that leaves a lot of available real estate on the island of believers in Woods’ prospects as an elite force.

By the time he rolled out of this overcast village on Scotland’s western shore, he was at the arse end of the leaderboard atop which he once presided. Only five men in the field had a worse two-round total than his 156, a glum number he reached when a Friday 77 was added to his opening 79. He made just three birdies in 36 holes. His Strokes Gained Total statistic shows he lost almost eight strokes to the field, 3.68 with the putter and more than 4 with his approach play. Only around the greens did he creep (barely) into positive numbers.

“Well, it wasn’t very good. Just was fighting it pretty much all day,” Woods said, displaying an admirable gift for understatement.

In the two years since the 150th Open in St. Andrews, Woods has made seven competitive starts. The ledger shows two withdrawals, two missed cuts, a tie for 45th at the Genesis Invitational 17 months ago, and two dead-last finishes, one of which was in his own 18-man Hero World Challenge. His latest effort at Royal Troon continues a well-established chicken-egg conversation.

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“I’d like to have played more but I just wanted to make sure I was able to play the major championships this year,” he said. “I’ve got a lot of time off to get better physically better. I’ve gotten better, even though my results haven’t really shown it. But physically I’ve gotten better, which is great. Just need to keep progressing like that and eventually start playing more, start getting into the competitive flow again.”

That narrative has been dispiritingly familiar to golf fans since Woods re-emerged from a 2021 car wreck. At every major he talks about the need for more reps, but the reps never come. He has reasons, of course, none of them unreasonable: young kids, global business, boardroom responsibilities, broken body. Mostly it’s the body. All but the most feverish understand that he’s at the stage of needing to catch two lightning bolts in a thimble in order to win.

After his second round, Woods admitted he doesn’t even plan to compete again for five months, not until December, when he appears at the Hero and the PNC Championship, his annual outing with his son, Charlie. “I’m not going to play again until then and keep working on it. And just come back for our fifth major, the father-son,” he said.

The chicken-egg cycle begins another lap.

Tiger Woods chips to the 12th green during the second round of the Open Championship golf tournament at Royal Troon. Mandatory Credit: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY Sports

Woods has been irrelevant as a competitor for years, certainly since the crash. So in that respect, Colin Montgomerie wasn’t off-base in expressing befuddlement that Woods stays out here, a pale shadow of his once resplendent self. But Monty was myopic in thinking that competitiveness is the measure of Woods’ relevance. What he does inside the ropes is no longer the metric by which his contribution to the product is assessed, and as we know, what matters most these days is “the product.”

In a bitterly divided sport, Woods will play the role of pied piper. He’s on the PGA Tour’s transaction subcommittee that negotiates directly with the Saudis. He’s on the Tour’s Policy Board, the only member with no expiration date on his term. He will help shape the future of the men’s professional game, and be instrumental in selling it to both fans and fellow players. That’s why he was added to both bodies. His public voice matters, perhaps because he hasn’t used it often.

Regardless of the numbers he posts, Woods’ presence is additive to the business, just as Arnold Palmer was even when telecasts stopped showing his scores. The Tour admitted as much last month when it voted him a lifetime exemption into signature events, for which he would not otherwise be eligible. Now, when the whim strikes him, the 874th-ranked player in the world has a guaranteed spot in elite limited fields. It was dressed up in the language of lifetime achievement for those who’ve won more than 80 times on Tour, but if the win total was 79 the line would simply have been moved. And that’s defensible.

Woods is a proud man and his scores must settle somewhere between embarrassing and irksome, but he seems to maintain a belief that there’s another run in him. It’s highly improbable, yet still possible. What isn’t speculative is his value in the here and now. When Woods shows up, he adds eyeballs and bolsters the Tour’s chief constituents — sponsors being asked to pay more, broadcasters airing a diluted product and fans expected to overlook the absence of a handful of engaging stars. Even if his appearances in actual Tour events are scarce.

His value isn’t diminished by the scores at Royal Troon. Not for Tour executives, not for its private equity investors at Strategic Sports Group, and not for the gaggle of pasty-faced kids chasing him around a wet, blustery Scottish links in hopes of a glimpse or an autograph. The kids didn’t seem to care about the number on his scorecard. And the others? They’re focused on the number he adds to a valuation. That’s the long-term outlook that still holds promise.

Yikes! Joaquin Niemann makes an 8 on No. 8, the Postage Stamp green, at 2024 British Open

This was ugly but give him credit for rallying on the back nine.

The Postage Stamp at Royal Troon is one of the most famed par 3s in the world — for good reason. Playing around 120 yards, the eighth hole at this week’s 2024 British Open can pose quite the challenge but on Frida it was rated the third easiest hole.

Just ask LIV Golf member Joaquin Niemann, who was 1 under for the day when he stepped to the eighth tee box.

Then his round went south in a hurry.

His tee shot found the right greenside bunker. His second was sent into the back left bunker. His third didn’t get out. His fourth ended up in the front greenside bunker. Niemann hit his fifth to 26 feet.

Then he three-putted.

In the end, it was a quintuple-bogey eight for the Chilean, who battled back big-time after that (more on that in a minute).

Quick warning, you may want to avert your eyes.

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Here’s what the entire trip looked like.

Niemann would par the ninth to make the turn in 40 but then he went on a tear, making birdie on Nos. 10, 12, 14 and 15 to close in 31 to post a 71. Remarkably, he’s tied for 11th after 36 holes at even par, seven shots behind leader Shane Lowry.

Joost Luiten rips officials for ruining his Olympics: ‘I’m the one who is f***ed,’ plans island pool party instead

Luiten said he’s disappointed but he’s come to terms with getting a raw deal.

TROON, Scotland – Joost Luiten remains on the outside looking in to represent the Netherlands in the men’s golf competition at the Olympics in Paris in a few weeks but he’s planning a pretty good consolation prize. Luiten booked a holiday in Mallorca, one of Spain’s Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, which he noted isn’t too far away should a competitor withdraw and he get a spot from the reallocation list.

Luiten, a native of the Netherlands, qualified for the Summer Games in Paris but his governing body for golf decided not to send him and compatriot Darius van Driel. Luiten wrote on social media that the Dutch Olympic Committee required the likelihood of a top-eight finish in the 60-man, 72-hole competition and denied him because it did not feel he would be able to do so.

Luiten, a 38-year-old DP World Tour veteran, said he spent $20,000 on legal fees to take his case to a Netherlands court, which ruled in his favor. But the International Golf Federation already had given his spot in the 60-man Olympic field to Finland’s Tapio Pulkkanen. The IGF, which administers golf in the Olympics, announced last week that IOC turned down a proposal to expand the men’s field to 61 to give Luiten a spot. Instead, he was named the first reserve.

“I’m the one who is out. I’m the one who is fu**ed,” said Luiten after shooting 76 at Royal Troon on Friday in the second round of the 152nd British Open. “I’m over it now. I spent a lot of money on a court case to win it and then you win it and then they say, f*** it, you’re still not in because someone else f***ed up. That’s the annoying thing.

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Joost Luiten of Netherlands tees off on the first hole during day two of The 152nd Open championship at Royal Troon. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

“It’s mistake after mistake after mistake and no one wants to own up to it and nobody wants to make it right and now I’m in a position where I don’t know what to do.”

Luiten previously competed in the Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janiero. What was Luiten’s initial response when he was informed that even though he won his court case against the Dutch Olympic Committee, he still wouldn’t be in the field?

“This can’t be right,” he said. “I was entered before the deadline. The IGF gave my spot away even though I notified them not to give it away because I’m going to court. They say they followed the protocol.

“They all point to each other. They’re just a bunch of amateurs. They think they run a professional golf event but you can see it’s the Olympics, it’s run by amateurs.”

Asked what should be done to ensure this doesn’t happen again, Luiten said, “I think they should make it an amateur event. If you let amateurs decide for professional golfers then you get some weird rulings and whatever. That’s what happened in Holland with me. You’ve got a bunch of amateurs making the rules for professional golf events. That’s the way the Olympics started and that’s the way it should be.”

Luiten said he’s disappointed but he’s come to terms with getting a raw deal.

“I could take them to court again but then you spend another $100,000 and you don’t know if you’re going to win for an event that you don’t even get paid for. I spent $20,000 and I’m done with it,” he said. “It’s the Olympics but with all the stuff going on it has lost some of its – what’s the word? – glamour.

“I don’t know what I’d do if I get the call but right now I’m happy not to play. I’m quite done with it. I’ll be quite happy when I’m in Mallorca and I’m in the pool.”

Luiten shot 75-76 at Royal Troon this week to miss the cut.

Tiger Woods shoots second-round 6-over 77, misses cut at 2024 British Open

This is his third missed cut in four major starts this year.

After posting an 8-over 79 on Thursday, things didn’t get much better for Tiger Woods at the 2024 British Open on Day 2.

The 15-time major champion began his day with a par on No. 1, but made a sloppy double-bogey six on the par-4 second and was quickly over par. Woods added another blemish to the card on No. 5 but quickly got the shot back with a nice 20-foot birdie putt on the par-5 sixth.

Before making the turn, Woods made bogey at the par-4 ninth and made the turn with a 3-over 39.

He opened his back nine with a couple pars at Nos. 10 and 11 before a bogey on the par-4 12th.

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A three-foot miss on the 14th resulted in another bogey for Tiger, and he walked to the 15th tee box 5 over on the day.

After two pars on 15 and 16, a bogey on 17 and another par on 18, Tiger settled for a second-round 6-over 77.

This is his third straight missed cut in majors this year.

Angry Shane Lowry sees British Open solo lead disappear (briefly) over rules controversy

Lowry knew immediately that he was in a world of trouble.

TROON, Scotland – Shane Lowry’s lead during the 152nd British Open took a hit due to a bad shot and a ruling that didn’t go his way on the 11th hole at Royal Troon Golf Club during the second round on Friday. It resulted in a double bogey but Lowry managed birdies on two of his final three holes to card 2-under 69 in breezy conditions and improve to 7-under 135.

Lowry, the 2019 Open champ who opened with 66 and added three birdies and a bogey in his first 10 holes to lead by two, yanked his second shot dead left from 176 yards at the 11th hole into a gorse bush.

“I did the hard part. I hit my drive where you could find it, which is obviously a hard thing to do on that hole. I drew a nice lie in the (right) rough. I got a little bit distracted on the right just as I was over the shot, and I kind of lost a bit of train of thought. You’re so afraid of going right there that I just snagged the club and went left,” he said.

According to the radio broadcast, Lowry blamed a photographer for distracting him. A hot mic caught him erupting at the photographer.

Lowry knew immediately that he was in a world of trouble and hit a great provisional to about 10 feet. It looked like he might escape without too much pain.

“The referee asked me going down, did I want to find my first one, and I said no. So I assumed that was OK. Then we get down there, and somebody had found it. So apparently we have to find it then, or you have to go and identify it, which I thought, if you declared it lost before it was found, that you didn’t, you didn’t have to go and identify it,” Lowry said.

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However, a spectator found Lowry’s ball in the gorse bush, which meant that Lowry had no choice but to play his original ball. Lowry argued with the rules official. According to the radio reporter, he said, “Even though I told you I didn’t want to search for it.” The rules official said, “I am very sorry, but yes.”

According to the Rules of Golf, as soon as the original ball is found it is back in play and the second ball on the green is no longer an option to play.

“It’s one of those rules where common sense is thrown out,” said radio commentator Brendon de Jonge.

Lowry asked for a second opinion but the ruling stood.

“I felt like through that whole process of that 20 minutes, it was whatever it was, of taking the drop, seeing where I could drop, and I felt like I was very calm and composed and really knew that I was doing the right thing, and I felt like (caddie) Darren (Reynolds) did a great job too just kind of — he kept telling me, we have loads of time. We don’t need to rush this. We just need to do the right thing here.”

Lowry elected to take an unplayable lie. He could’ve dropped within two club lengths but it wouldn’t have given him much of a shot so instead took the option of taking the ball back on line of sight leaving himself about 70 yards. After the penalty shot, he knocked his fourth to the fringe and took two putts for a double-bogey 6. Lowry led the championship by two when he teed off at No. 11, Railway, but after his Railway nightmare, he left tied for the lead with Englishman Daniel Brown.

“Is this really going to mess with the mind of Shane Lowry?” the radio host asked.

It did not. Lowry didn’t drop another shot and finished with birdies on two of his final three holes to retake the solo lead when he headed to the clubhouse.

“To be honest, I was happy enough leaving there with a 6,” Lowry said. “It wasn’t a disaster. I was still leading the tournament.”

2024 British Open Friday tee times, pairings and how to watch at Royal Troon

More coffee golf!

The first round of the 2024 British Open is in the books, and there’s a past Champion Golfer of the Year lurking.

Shane Lowry fired a bogey-free 5-under 66 on Thursday and is one back of the lead at Royal Troon in Scotland. Daniel Brown is the solo leader, playing in one of the last groups of the day, firing a 6-under 65 after a birdie on 18. Justin Thomas had the best round of the morning wave, shooting 3-under 68, and is solo third.

Meanwhile, there were plenty of big names who struggled on Thursday, including Ludvig Aberg, Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau, Tiger Woods and more.

Marquee groups

  • Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre
  • Ludvig Aberg, Bryson DeChambeau, Tom Kim
  • Rory McIlroy, Max Homa, Tyrrell Hatton
  • Wyndham Clark, Hideki Matsuyama, Brooks Koepka
  • Tiger Woods, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay
  • Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young

Here’s a look at the second round tee times for the 2024 British Open, as well as Friday’s TV and streaming information.

Friday tee times

Time Players
1:35 a.m.
Ewen Ferguson, Marcel Siem
1:46 a.m.
C.T. Pan, Yuto Katsuragawa
1:57 a.m.
Rikuya Hoshino, Angel Hidalgo, Richard Mansell
2:08 a.m.
Corey Conners, Ryan Fox, Jorge Campillo
2:19 a.m.
Ernie Els, Gary Woodland, Altin Van der Merwe
2:30 a.m.
Henrik Stenson, Rasmus Hojgaard, Jacob Skov Oleson
2:41 a.m.
Louis Oothuizen, Billy Horschel, Victor Perez
2:52 a.m.
Sepp Straka, Brendon Todd, Jordan Smith
3:03 a.m.
Denny McCarthy, Taylor Moore, Adrian Meronk
3:14 a.m.
Jason Day, Ben An, Rickie Fowler
3:25 a.m.
Alex Cejka, Eric Cole, Kurt Kitayama
3:36 a.m.
Darren Clarke, J.T. Poston, Dean Burmester
3:47 a.m.
Phil Mickelson, Joost Luiten, Dustin Johnson
4:03 a.m.
Padraig Harrington, Davis Thompson, Matthew Jordan
4:14 a.m.
Wyndham Clark, Hideki Matsuyama, Brooks Koepka
4:25 a.m.
Tiger Woods, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay
4:36 a.m.
Collin Morikawa, Sam Burns, Si Woo Kim
4:47 a.m.
Shane Lowry, Cameron Smith, Matt Fitzpatrick
4:58 a.m.
Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young
5:09 a.m.
Akshay Bhatia, Tom Hoge, Sami Valimaki
5:20 a.m.
Emiliano Grillo, Ben Griffin, Mackenzie Hughes
5:31 a.m.
Yannik Paul, Joe Dean, Andy Ogletree
5:42 a.m.
Ryan van Velzen, Charlie Lindh, Luis Masaveu
5:53 a.m.
Kazuma Kobori, Jaime Montojo, Liam Nolan
6:04 a.m.
Daniel Brown, Denwit Boriboonsub, Matthew Dodd-Berry
6:15 a.m.
Jeung-Hun Wang, Aguri Iwasaki, Sam Horsfield
6:26 a.m.
Justin Leonard, Todd Hamilton, Jack McDonald
6:47 a.m.
Alex Noren, Tom McKibbin, Calum Scott
6:58 a.m.
Jesper Svensson, Vincent Norrman, Michael Hendry
7:09 a.m.
Younghan Song, Daniel Hillier, Ryosuke Kinoshita
7:20 a.m.
Min Woo Lee, Ryo Hisatsune, Abraham Ancer
7:31 a.m.
Nicolai Hojgaard, Adam Scott, Keita Nakajima
7:42 a.m.
Francesco Molinari, Justin Rose, Jasper Stubbs
7:53 a.m.
Justin Thomas, Sungjae Im, Matthew Southgate
8:04 a.m.
Nick Taylor, Matt Wallace, Laurie Canter
8:15 a.m.
Matteo Manassero, Shubhankar Sharma
8:26 a.m.
Zach Johnson, Austin Eckroat, Thornjorn Oleson
8:37 a.m.
John Daly, Santiago de la Fuente, Aaron Rai
8:48 a.m.
Stewart Cink, Chris Kirk, Dominic Clemons
9:04 a.m.
Stephan Jaeger, Adam Schenk, Joaquin Niemann
9:15 a.m.
Adam Hadwin, Lucas Glover, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
9:26 a.m.
Tony Finau, Russell Henley, Matthieu Pavon
9:37 a.m.
Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre
9:48 a.m.
Ludvig Aberg, Bryson DeChambeau, Tom Kim
9:59 a.m.
Brian Harman, Viktor Hovland, Sahith Theegala
10:10 a.m.
Rory McIlroy, Max Homa, Tyrrell Hatton
10:21 a.m.
Keegan Bradley, Will Zalatoris, Gordon Sargent
10:32 a.m.
Harris English, Maverick McNealy, Alexander Bjork
10:43 a.m.
Guido Migliozzi, Sean Crocker, Tommy Morrison
10:54 a.m.
David Puig, John Catlin, Gun-Tack Koh
11:05 a.m.
Thriston Lawrence, Dan Bradbury, Elvis Smylie
11:16 a.m.
Nacho Elvira, Minkyu Kim, Darren Fichardt
11:27 a.m.
Mason Anderson, Masahiro Kawamura, Sam Hutsby

How to watch

Thursday, July 19 (all times EST)

First round, 1:30 a.m.- 4 a.m., Peacock

First round, 4 a.m.-3 p.m., USA Network

First round, 3 p.m.-4:15 p.m., Peacock

Live from the Open, 3 p.m., Golf Channel