Key events
Kim scores 17!
Should we start the day with a sugar rush? Come on then! It’s Kim Si-woo on the 238-yard 17th. He’s a +7 so we wouldn’t normally go straight to the 29-year-old Korean… except he gently sends a long iron into the green. He lands front edge, takes a few hops and then calmly rolls into the cup! For a second he looks around as if he can’t believe what’s just happened, before a big smile spreads across his face, high-fives his caddie and mimics the soft left-to-right flight of his ball with his arm! That’s the longest hole-in-one in Open history and the first on the 17th at Troon since detailed records began with the R&A in 1981.
Preamble
Welcome to Moving Day during the 152nd Open Championship! After 36 holes the top of the leaderboard looked like this…
-7: Lowry
-5: Brown, Pink
-2: Horschel, Burmester, Scheffler
-1: Conners, Dag, Schauffele, Cantlay
E: Jordan, Niemann
+1: D Johnson, Koepka, Morikawa, Hughes, Rahm
…while these (selected) big names missed the cut…
Akshay Bhatia, Keegan Bradley, Will Zalatoris, Henrik Stenson, Louis Oosthuizen, Tyrrell Hatton, Min Woo Lee, Francesco Molinari, Zach Johnson, Tommy Fleetwood, Ludvig Åberg, Bryson DeChambeau, Tony Finau, Viktor Hovland, Tom Kim, Rory McIlroy, Cameron Smith, Sahith Theegala and Tiger Woods
…and that gave us a turn-by-turn schedule that looked like this (all times BST, GB&I unless otherwise stated). It is on!
0855 Darren Fichardt (SA), Tommy Morrison -a- (US)
0905 Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Max Homa (USA)
0915 Shubhankar Sharma (India), Sungjae Im (Kor)
0925 Abraham Ancer (Mex), Luis Masaveu -a- (Spa)
0935 Matt Fitzpatrick, Darren Clarke
0945 Rickie Fowler (USA), Jorge Campillo (Spa)
0955 Harris English (USA), Robert MacIntyre
1005 Aaron Rai, Matt Wallace
1020 Adam Scott (Aus), Daniel Hillier (Aus)
1030 Younghan Song (Kor), Andy Ogletree (USA)
1040 Si Woo Kim (Kor), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn)
1050 Davis Thompson (US), Phil Mickelson (US)
1100 Alex Cejka (Ger), Jacob Skov Olesen -a- (Den)
1110 Ewen Ferguson, John Catlin (USA)
1120 Sean Crocker (US), Brian Harman (US)
1130 Chris Kirk (US), Austin Eckroat (US)
1145 Matteo Manassero (Italy), Justin Thomas (USA)
1155 Calum Scott -a-, Joe Dean
1205 Cameron Young (US), Kurt Kitayama (US)
1215 Ben An (Kor), Brendon Todd (USA)
1225 Rasmus Hojgaard (Den), Ryan Fox (NZ)
1235 Richard Mansell, Thriston Lawrence (SA)
1245 Thorbjorn Olesen (Den), Laurie Canter
1255 Tom McKibbin, Emiliano Grillo (Arg)
1310 Jordan Spieth (US), Sam Burns (US)
1320 Padraig Harrington, Eric Cole (USA)
1330 Adrian Meronk (Pol), MK Kim (Kor)
1340 Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Russell Henley (USA)
1350 Nicolai Hojgaard (Den), Alex Noren (Swe)
1400 Jeung-Hun Wang (Kor), Tom Hoge (USA)
1410 Sepp Straka (Aut), Gary Woodland (USA)
1420 Marcel Siem (Dld), Jon Rahm (Spa)
1435 Mackenzie Hughes (Canada), Collin Morikawa (USA)
1445 Brooks Koepka (US), Dustin Johnson (US)
1455 Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Matthew Jordan
1505 Patrick Cantlay (US), Xander Schauffele (US)
1515 Jason Day (Australia), Corey Conners (Canada)
1525 Scottie Scheffler (US), Dean Burmester (ZA)
1535 Billy Horschel (USA), Justin Rose
1545 Dan Brown, Shane Lowry