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18-07-2025
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British Open - Portrush offers packed first round leaderboard
Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee recaps the opening day of action at Royal Portrush - which features five players tied for the lead, the second most ever in 153 editions of The Open Championship. View more Video Transcript What do Jacob Ollison, Hal Tong Lee, Matt Fitzpatrick, Christian Beeidnhout, and Harris English all have in common? Well, aside from the fact that you probably wouldn't know them if they were standing right next to you, they're all leading the British Open at 4 under after the tournament's first day. That is the second highest number of leaders after the Open's first round after 1938-106. And of course we all remember that particular tournament like it was yesterday. Now, Thursday at Royal Portrush, we got a bit of the rain, we got a bit of the wind that we all love so much at the British Open. But for the most part, Portrush was gettable, at least for the couple dozen players that finished under par. And as nice as that story of that quintet up at the top of the leaderboard might be, the real story is one stroke back. That would be none other than Scotty Scheffler, who's played in all of four British Opens before this one. But the world #1 learns very, very fast. That's how he became the world #1, and he's already in position to make a charge for his second major of the year and the third leg of a career Grand Slam. Another guy that already achieved that career Grand Slam, hometown favorite Rory McIlroy had an up and down day, but he finished at -1, the same score as John Rohm and Shane Lowry. And as always, the British Open gave some familiar names in the past one more chance in the spotlight. Lee Westwood, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia, Justin Leonard all popped up high on the leaderboard at one point or another over the course of the day. Low on the leaderboard, unfortunately, was Bryson DeChambeau, who continues to struggle on links courses. He finished at plus seven, just four strokes ahead of last place. Also buried was Brooks Koepka, who finished at plus four and is a long, long way from his major championship winning form. Now, the British Open continues on Friday morning long before the sun comes up on the East Coast. Get your sleep now and tune in for Yahoo Sports, Jay Busby. Close
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17-07-2025
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British Open - Portrush offers packed first round leaderboard
Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee recaps the opening day of action at Royal Portrush - which features five players tied for the lead, the second most ever in 153 editions of The Open Championship. View more Video Transcript What do Jacob Ollison, Hal Tong Lee, Matt Fitzpatrick, Christian Beeidnhout, and Harris English all have in common? Well, aside from the fact that you probably wouldn't know them if they were standing right next to you, they're all leading the British Open at 4 under after the tournament's first day. That is the second highest number of leaders after the Open's first round after 1938-106. And of course we all remember that particular tournament like it was yesterday. Now, Thursday at Royal Portrush, we got a bit of the rain, we got a bit of the wind that we all love so much at the British Open. But for the most part, Portrush was gettable, at least for the couple dozen players that finished under par. And as nice as that story of that quintet up at the top of the leaderboard might be, the real story is one stroke back. That would be none other than Scotty Scheffler, who's played in all of four British Opens before this one. But the world #1 learns very, very fast. That's how he became the world #1, and he's already in position to make a charge for his second major of the year and the third leg of a career Grand Slam. Another guy that already achieved that career Grand Slam, hometown favorite Rory McIlroy had an up and down day, but he finished at -1, the same score as John Rohm and Shane Lowry. And as always, the British Open gave some familiar names in the past one more chance in the spotlight. Lee Westwood, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia, Justin Leonard all popped up high on the leaderboard at one point or another over the course of the day. Low on the leaderboard, unfortunately, was Bryson DeChambeau, who continues to struggle on links courses. He finished at plus seven, just four strokes ahead of last place. Also buried was Brooks Koepka, who finished at plus four and is a long, long way from his major championship winning form. Now, the British Open continues on Friday morning long before the sun comes up on the East Coast. Get your sleep now and tune in for Yahoo Sports, Jay Busby. Close
Yahoo
16-07-2025
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British Open preview - Who will win at Royal Portrush?
Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee previews the 153rd edition of The Open Championship - which returns to the site of the 2019 tournament in which Shane Lowry won by six shots. View more Video Transcript Get to bed early and set your alarms because it's British Open week. Yes, the one week of the year you'll actually want to get up before dawn is back, and as always, it's a must watch. This year, the British Open, or the Open Championship, if you're fancy, will again take place at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. The last time the Open was at Portrush back in 2019, Irishman Shane Lowry claimed the Claret Jug by 6 strokes. Now his pal Rory McIlroy, meanwhile, began that tournament by hitting his very first shot out of bounds, carrying the ugly quadruple bogey and eventually missing the cut. The jury is still out on whether McIlroy is back in major-winning form after his big Masters victory in April. He has struggled since then, and he surrendered a Sunday lead last week in the Scottish Open. Still, he's one of the favorites. Also up there, Scotty Scheffler, who hasn't won a tournament in eight weeks, which for him is an astounding cold streak. A couple of live players looking for their first British Open win, John Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau round out the top four, and any of those four would make for a great finish on Sunday. But if you believe in karma or the golf gods, roll with Tommy Fleetwood, who suffered that heartbreaking loss at the Travelers last month. He is absolutely due for his first major. Hitting the greens is crucial at Royal Portrush. So for sleepers, look at the players with the best greens in regulation percentage. That would be guys like Sepp Straka, Patrick Cantlay, and of course, Chris Gotterup, who just happened to win the Scottish Open on Sunday. Weather is a British Open course's best defense, and for right now, the forecast calls for rain every single day. That obviously could change. Portrush takes a gorgeous route between cliffs and the sea, and as always, the bunkers provide card wrecking challenges and joy for those of us watching from the comfort of home. Now, the only real downside of the British, you know, aside from the whole getting up while it's still dark thing, is that this is the last major of the season. Yes, we have the Tour Championship and the Ryder Cup, but it's not quite the same. So savor these four days of major championship golf. They're the last ones we'll have until the azaleas bloom. Yahoo Sports, Jay Busby. Close
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09-06-2025
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U.S. Open preview - Golf's toughest test awaits at Oakmont
Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee previews this week's major outside Pittsburgh - which will host the event for a tenth time on a track known as one of America's most difficult golf courses. View more Video Transcript Hide your scorecards, my friends, because the US Open is back and the toughest tournament in golf this year is being played at one of the toughest courses in the country. Advertisement That would be Oakmont, the old classic. It's been around since 1904. It's hosted now 10 US Opens, more than any other course in the United States, and it's going to be an incredible challenge for today's golfers for a number of reasons, starting with the rough, as much as 5 inches deep in some places, the famous. Church Pew and piano keys, bunkers, cinematic and also devastating to your score if you happen to end up in them. And then the greens, which are so slick, that Sam Snead once said he put a dime down to mark his ball and it slid off the edge of the green. Now who can handle this kind of course? Advertisement Well, Scotty Scheffer, of course, he's already got 3 majors. He might well win 2 more before the year is out. He's not quite at Scotty versus the field level, but he's very, very close, right behind. Hi. You've got Rory McIlroy, understandably a bit out of form since his emotional win at Augusta back in April. He missed the cut last week at the RBC Canadian. That's a bit of a concern for him and for anybody else who's looking to watch him win his second major. A little further down, you've got John Rohm playing very well on Liv. That's kind of damning with faint praise because while he's been able to hold leads, he hasn't been able to keep leads over the course of the last Few months, most notably last last month at Quail Hollow in the PGA Championship when he let it get away from him late. Advertisement Then of course there's Bryson DeShambo, Rohm's mate over at Liv Golf, playing very well in most phases of the game, always in competition in majors lately, but his iron play is a bit suspect, and you're going to need to be accurate off the tee if you're going to win at Oakmont. He should be in the mix, but will he be holding up the trophy at the end of it? To be determined. Now, in terms of a sleeper, a guy you might want to look at is someone who's had some strong iron play, that would be Terrell Hatton. He's never won a major, but he has made the cut in 13 of the last 14 majors that he's played, and he's extremely accurate with his irons. Advertisement Plus, the side benefit of that is that he would be the first golfer whose celebration speech at the end would be an FCC violation. We will be live all week from Oakmont. Join us at Yahoo Sports. I am Jay Busby. We will see you from the US Open.
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16-05-2025
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Stars struggle in first round of PGA Championship
Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee reacts to the first day of the 2025 PGA Championship where Johnattan Vegas has jumped out to a stroke lead over Ryan Gerard and Cam Davis. View more Video Transcript Hello from Quail Hollow, where it was a very bad day to be a star at the first round of the PGA Championship. Advertisement Your leader at -7, Jonathan Vegas, who caughttered an incredible 5 birdies in his final 6 holes, 2 strokes ahead of Ryan Gerrard and Cam Davis. Guys. You know a little bit better guys like Masters champion Rory McIlroy, who's at + 3, Xander Schaffley, the defending champion here is at plus 1. Brooks Kepka at + 4. A lot of stars struggled on the day today. Why? Well, as you may be able to tell, behind me, the course was soaked by about 5 inches of water and there's still a lot of mud in the area that was causing a lot of problems for the players. Now there were some highlights, we had some chip ins, we had a hole in one, but a lot of big names struggled with the. Advertisement Conditions here and we're not shy about talking about it. Shfly called it stupid. Scotty Scheffer, who finished at -2, was not happy with the rules committee for the way that they set up the course. They're gonna have 3 more chances to go at it assuming that they make the cut, but for right now it's been a bit of a tricky first round for a lot of the big names at the at the PGA Championship. We'll see how it goes in the next 3 days from Charlotte, Jay Bussby for Yahoo Sports.
