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The most surprising Open round? It came from 1 of the shortest hitters
Justin Leonard isn't going to play every Open moving forward, but he's glad he gamed it for this one.
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Justin Leonard had five basic words for his first 18 holes at the 153rd Open. “It was really fun today,” he said with a big smile. Emphasis on the fun.
If that feels overly simple, that’s what this sport and course will do to you. Open Championship golf at Royal Portrush is a maze of complexities that reduces even the TV talkers to plainness. By the time Leonard was quick-walking his way from the scoring area, that’s the glut of what he came up with. It was really fun. Frankly, not much more needed to be said. Other than, That was impressive, man!
Leonard chips in at No. 3
The first day of the 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club featured rain, windy conditions and a lengthy opening round. It produced a five-way tie for the lead atop the leaderboard at 4-under-par between Harris English, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Jacob Skov Olesen, Haotong Li and Christian Bezuidenhout.
Local boy Rory McIlroy is in contention with a 1-under 70 despite only hitting two fairways. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is one off the lead after firing a 3-under 68, and he only hit three fairways. Two-time major winner Jon Rahm, who entered this tournament among the favorites to hoist the Claret Jug, is in the hunt with a 1-under 70, three shots off the lead.
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Phil Mickelson surged into the Open lead while you were sleeping
Phil Mickelson surged into an early lead at the Open Championship on Thursday at Royal Portrush.
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — It’s perhaps fitting that the Open Championship’s Thursday leaders would be men of a certain vintage.
The Open, after all, is the oldest of golf’s major championships — a tournament so steeped in the sport’s history that it often serves as a proxy for it. For the bright-yellow leaderboards to absorb sepia tint at least for a few minutes on Thursday morning at Royal Portrush? Well, that’d serve as little more than a proper tip o’ the cap to golf’s past.
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