McIlroy scrapped on Thursday to end -1 and three shots behind the leaders, with Scottie Scheffler and Tyrrell Hatton just one stroke back heading into Friday’s second round

Apparently, someone must have been trying operate with some haste and neglected to rake a bunker at the par-4 fifth hole. Fleetwood’s drive found that unraked fairway bunker, and he was forced to play his bole in a footprint.

SportsLine golf expert Brady Kannon just locked in his PGA Tour best bets for the 2025 British Open at Royal Portrush Golf Club

Follow live text updates and radio commentary of the 153rd Open Championship from Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.

Rory McIlroy is grouped with Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Thomas for first two rounds at Royal Portrush. McIlroy has late-early draw as he hopes for victory on home-soil and another Open win. The world No 2 missed the cut when the tournament was last held at this venue in 2019 but golf fans can watch him tee off at 3.10pm this afternoon, July 17.

The final major of the golfing year takes place this week as the Open Championship takes place at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland – with Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood both teeing off

So here is our final major big board of the year, ranking the top 30 golfers in the field. This is not simply the 30 best golfers in a vacuum. These are the 30 golfers that our crack team of Gabby Herzig, Hugh Kellenberger and Brody Miller believe are best suited to win this week at Royal Portrush.

Fleetwood may be the best golfer in the world never to have won a major, let alone a single PGA Tour tournament.

Tommy Fleetwood, a seasoned golfer with nearly a decade of top-level experience, seeks his first major win at Royal Portrush, where he previously finished second in the 2019 Open. Despite earning over $30 million on the PGA Tour and consistently ranking among the world's best,

Royal Portrush showed its teeth on Thursday as the 2025 Open Championship field got the full links golf experience. The weather shifted and changed throughout the first round to create challenging scoring conditions, and some handled it better than the rest as the first 18 holes concluded in Northern Ireland.

Open Championship is drawing near as the best golfers in the world travel to Northern Ireland for the final major title of the year. Royal Portrush will take center stage for the first time since the club held the 2019 Open Championship which saw Irishman Shane Lowry win his first - and