2023 The Open – Round 1

In Tournaments by Admin

After Round 1 at The Open, it’s tight at the top with Grillo, Lamprecht and Fleetwood all leading the way on -5.

Scoring was mixed during the day leading to a wide range of scores on our LMS Leaderboard. There is a group at the top on -10, bringing up the rear is Jeff Jones 2 and Antony Devlin 2 who are both +18 due to picking Justin Thomas who had a nightmare round.

One entry has been effected by withdrawals so we are down to 1,289 entries. As a result, we have decided to leave the prize pot untouched meaning the prize pot split is still:

1st – £8,700

2 – £2,300

3 – £600

Top 10

After Round 1, the top 10 is as follows:

1st – Kie Power -10 (-5, -4, -1)

1st – Paul Brogan -10 (-5, -4, -1)

1st – Nathan Johnson 6 -10 (-5, -4, -1)

1st – David Platt -10 (-5, -4, -1)

5th – Sean Cooper 2 -10 (-5, -3)

6th – Anthony Oneill -9 (-5, -4, 0)

6th – Darin Marwood -9 (-5, -4, 0)

6th – Liam Carden -9 (-5, -4, 0)

6th – Daniel Hulme -9 (-5, -4, 0)

6th – Elliott Conway -9 (-5, -4, 0)

6th – Tom O Murphy -9 (-5, -4, 0)

6th – Greg Brechin -9 (-5, -4, 0)

6th – Rich Blackett -9 (-5, -4, 0)

6th – Adam Steel -9 (-5, -4, 0)

It is extremely close at the top after Round 1 with 50 entrants being within 4 shots of the lead.

The entries with Thomas (44), Theegala (22), Niemann (6), Kirk (9), R Hojgaard (43), Fox (30), Mickelson (29), McCarthy (35), Wallace (4), English (10), Rose (66), Rahm (95), Oosthuizen (58), MacIntyre (246), T Kim (90), DJ (75), Harrington (60), Gooch (40), DeChambeau (55) will all be sweating today as they all scored +3 or worse and have a battle on their hands to avoid missing the cut.

Individual scores can be viewed on our website by clicking on the link below

https://lms.golf/2023-the-open/2023-the-open-last-man-standing-leaderboard/

Shot of the Day

Sepp Straka holed this incredible chip on 18th hole, it was a remarkable shot and I don’t think he’ll hole one like that again in a while!

https://twitter.com/TheOpen/status/1682014520972115968?t=FyuZthJdeivlv3HUN6jX6g&s=19

We will send out an update after Round 2 this evening.

Best of luck,

Cole & Alex