by On the first morning of the open, it was grin and a bear-it was that they ever asked why they ever thought that a British vacation on the coast was a good idea. The first shower blew immediately when Scottie Scheffler came to the 1st tea. He had the air of a persistent parent who had made the mistake of carrying her children in the conviction that it would clarify every minute, and now led them to the local folk museum, which was recommended by the holiday home owners. Scheffler bit his teeth and continued and pretended to enjoy it.
“Was there a shot that emerged for you today and with which you were really satisfied?” Scheffler was asked about his round. “No,” he said.
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Scheffler’s round was all ups and downs. He made Birdies on the 3rd, where he solved an 18 -foot putt and the 7th and 10th place, but around 9th and 11th Bogeys when both T -Shots blew right into the rough. That brought him one when the weather finally changed, and on the way back he was able to record a few more shots with two consecutive birdies. It gave him a shot from the clubhouse lead, a happy position for him and a threatening for everyone else. For a man who says that he is not interested in winning, he is good at it.
Scheffler just doesn’t miss it. “Even if she looks at him and it looks like he was going to hit a bad shot, it won’t be in a bad place,” said his play partner Shane Lowry.
The two played with Collin Morikawa. They made an entertaining threesome with six large championships. Lowry, born and grew up in County Offaly, is the local favorite and the kind of madman who like to play under these conditions. It is difficult to be safe, because he only seems to be drawn when he’s out there. He has the rictus grimace of a farmer the lower 40 in a squad. He won the Open here in 2019 with 72 conditions that were so bad that they brought the tea Times. Lowry, the last man, won his only major under some of the worst conditions in the modern history of the championship.
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Almost everyone else played a long iron from the 1st t -shirt, Lowry was one of the few who beat a driver that he wallops wallops, low, safe and directly on the fairway. My goodness, but he knows how to play in the wind and rain, even after all the years of the warm weather living in Florida. He was two among the first six holes, with birdies in the long par-five and the short par-three. He would have been even better if he had only found his Putg touch, but the ball seemed to sit centimeters from the cup. Soon he will soon be as a bear who has hibernated to hibernate to the greens and Schwat on the ball as if he were trying to hit a passing salmon with his paw.
A few three-putten, when the weather was in the worst case, meant Lowry in an under, sealed with a two-putt of 60 feet on the 18th, where his last 5-foot-saving putt was fired by a packed grandstand by home fans.
That made Morikawa a strange one. In his press conference, a lot was made about Scheffler’s strange comments at the beginning of this week when he brought himself into a tangle to describe what motivates him. To be honest, Scheffler is the straight-down-the Middle Art, which may think twice about how he spells the existential crisis loudly, let alone talk about how he suffers from you. Morikawa seems to be unsure these days. It has been for two years since his last victory, at the Zozo championship at the end of 2023. It has used four different caddies in the past six months, and most of his headlines have been over the ranks he has with the media.
Here Morikawa seemed to be with his ball on the wrong side of a current dispute. “Sit down, sit down, sit down,” he pleaded when it came into the long grass on the back of the 1st green. “Oh my God!” He roared when it flew far wide on the 7th, where it called in a group of spectators who gathered on one of the high dunes. His day didn’t get any better. He made three bogeys on the back nine and ended it with four and almost not. As Lowry said: “Days like today, you can really get out of a tournament.”
