{"id":807224,"date":"2026-07-17T05:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807224\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T05:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:43:40","slug":"the-open-2026-day-two-golf-updates-from-royal-birkdale-live-the-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807224\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open 2026: day two golf updates from Royal Birkdale \u2013 live | The Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preamble<\/p>\n

\u2026 and we\u2019re back<\/a>. Just over nine hours ago, the first day of the 154th edition of the Open Championship came to a close. Now we\u2019re up and running again! Friday promises to be another monster trek, and we\u2019ll be blogging about it \u266b\u266a all day looooooonng\u266b\u266a<\/a>. Here\u2019s how the very top of the leaderboard looked at the end of play last night \u2026<\/p>\n

-5: Jackson Suber
-4: Im Sung-jae, Daniel Brown
-3: Thomas Detry, Robert MacIntyre, Francesco Molinari, Alex Smalley, Bryson DeChambeau, Ryan Gerard, MJ Daffue, Pierceson Coody, Cameron Young<\/p>\n

\u2026 and here are the tee times (BST). Off we go! It\u2019s on!<\/p>\n

6.46 am: Eugenio Chacarra, Matt Wallace, Max Greyserman
6.57 am: Michael Brennan, Sahith Theegala, Laurie Canter
7.08 am: Cameron Smith, Keith Mitchell, Stuart Grehan (a)
7.19 am: Sepp Straka, Joaquin Niemann, Kurt Kitayama
7.30 am: Sami Valimaki, Shaun Norris, Jackson Suber
7.41 am: Darren Clarke, Adrien Saddier, Bernd Wiesberger
7.52 am: Keegan Bradley, Corey Conners, Casey Jarvis
8.03 am: Matt McCarty, Harry Hall, Haotong Li
8.14 am: Padraig Harrington, Marco Penge, Michael Hollick
8.25 am: Tom Kim, Billy Horschel, Mason Howell (a)
8.26 am: Johnny Kiefer, Pierceson Coody, Keita Nakajima
8.47 am: Aldrich Potgieter, Jesper Svansson, Jack Buchanan (a)
9.03 am: Bud Cauley, Jayden Schaper, Lucas Herbert
9.14 am: Kristoffer Reitan, Patrick Reed, JT Poston
9.25 am: Chris Gotterup, Sam Burns, Adam Scott
9.36 am: Collin Morikawa, JJ Spaun, Nicolai Hojgaard
9.47 am: Shane Lowry, Aaron Rai, Brooks Koepka
9.58 am: Cameron \u2060Young, Wyndham Clark, Luvig Aberg
10.09 am: Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick
10.20 am: Jacob Bridgeman, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Tim Wiedemeyer (a)
10.31 am: Patrick Cantlay, Daniel Berger, Nico Echavarria
10.42 am: \u200bPeter Uihlein, Alistair Docherty, Francesco Laporta
10.53 am: Cameron John, Austen Truslow, Sam Bairstow
11.04 am: Naoyuki \u200bKataoka, Marcus Plunkett, Baard Bjoernevik Skogen
11.15 am: Kazuki Higa, Jiho Yang, Nevill Ruiter (a)
11.41 am: Matthew Baldwin, Thomas Detry, James Nicholas
11.52 am: Michael Kim, Daniel Hillier, Andy Sullivan
12.03 pm: Ryan Fox, Andrew Novak, Matthew Jordan
12.14 pm: Henrik Stenson, Max Homa, Joe Dean
12.25 pm: Robert MacIntyre, Rickie \u200bFowler, Alex Fitzpatrick
12.36 pm: David Duval, Martin Couvra, Matthew \u200cSouthgate
12.47 pm: Sungjae Im, Daniel Brown, \u200bFifa Laopakdee (a)
12.58 pm: Gary Woodland, Jake Knapp, Jordan Smith
1.09 pm: \u200bFrancesco Molinari, Tom McKibbin, Lev Grinberg (a)
1.20 pm: Hennie Du Plessis, Jose Luis Ballester, Dan Bradbury
1.31 pm: Angel Ayora, Victor Perez, Mateo Pulcini (a)
1.42 pm: Stewart Cink, Scott Vincent, Joakim Lagergren
1.53 pm: Michael Thorbjornsen, Kota Kaneko, Travis Smyth
2.09 pm: Alex Smalley, Sam Stevens, Ryo Hisatsune
2.20 pm: Akshay Bhatia, Harris English, Rasmus Hojgaard
2.31 pm: Ben Griffin, Hideki Matsuyama, Min Woo Lee
2.42 pm: Russell Henley, Justin Rose, Viktor Hovland
2.53 pm: Justin Thomas, Alex Noren, Jason Day
3.04 pm: Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton, Bryson DeChambeau
3.15 pm: Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm
3.26 pm: Brian Harman, Si Woo Kim, Nick Taylor
3.37 pm: Ryan Gerard, Maverick McNealy, David Puig
3.48 pm: Kazuma Kobori, Tom Sloman, David Howard (a)
3.59 pm: Antoine Rozner, Ren Yonezawa, Caleb Surratt
4.10 pm: MJ Daffue, Frederic Lacroix, Jack McDonald
4.21 pm: Jeongwoo Ham, \u200cRyutaro Nagano, Alejandro De Castro Piera (a)<\/p>\n

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