{"id":766627,"date":"2026-07-16T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766627\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:55:20","slug":"who-is-leading-the-154th-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766627\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is leading | The 154th Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This live report will be updated throughout the Championship with details of who is leading The 154th Open. Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live scoring here<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/liveblog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live blog here<\/a>. You can also watch live streams, highlights and feature videos on R&amp;A TV.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/?popupPlayerId=145037\" target=\"_blank\">Sungjae Im<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/?popupPlayerId=50018738\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Brown<\/a>\u00a0share the lead in The 154th Open at Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n<p>Both players carded four-under-par rounds of 66 on a day of warm weather in Southport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=70000945\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Smalley<\/a> had led the way on five-under, but a wayward tee shot on the 18th led to a double-bogey. He joins nine other players on three-under-par including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=139507\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=145044\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert MacIntyre<\/a>, and\u00a0Champion Golfers <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=146554\" target=\"_blank\">Collin Morikawa<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=73334\" target=\"_blank\">Francesco Molinari<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This live report will be updated throughout the Championship with details of who is leading The 154th Open.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-766627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}