The Open 2024

He shot a 77. The next worst from the late starters was a 73. His playing partner who's no where near as talents or as experienced shot a 73. It was avery poor round from Lowry.

He still seems very down to earth to me.

Yes - as the crowd is spread out a lot more and over a longer day.

The Ryder cup only has 4 matches in play at any one time except the final day. Even then it's only 12 pairings to follow

Tomorrow there are 40 pairings to follow.

77th of 80 in strokes gained putting today.

Even before the rot started on 8 he had missed some very good birdie opportunities.

His chipping was uncharacteristically poor on the back 9 as well

I want Lowry to win as much as anyone, but you have to say he played poorly. Yes, he was unlucky on a couple of putts, very close on a few, but some were poor. Yes, conditions were atrocious, but they were for a lot of golfers, especially for those who teed off late. I mentioned earlier that you have to go way, way down the leaderboard to find someone who scored as badly today.

A couple of holes stood out to me, the postage stamp par 3. He watched Brown go in the coffin bunker, then went in straight after him, the swing was awful, you knew it wasn't going to be good. On 11, he was in the middle of the fairway for his 2nd shot, he tried to play a low shot into the wind and instead topped the ball.

Now I don't know if this is true, but I did hear him giving out after his 3rd shot. But I was surprised his 2nd shot, was only in the short stuff. Apparently it hit a reporter which stopped it going further wayward, and then had a go at him after he duffed the 3rd shot. And I heard him swearing on previous shots, but that's what Shane does when things are going wrong.

I would have thought Shane would be the one to thrive in those conditions, but he didn't, he wilted as much as anyone, and more so than anyone anywhere near the summit of the leaderboard. It was the comment in the media before today that they play in benign conditions on the US Tour.

Can't get enough of golf when the Majors are on. Just watched The Long Game on Netflix. It's a true story and well worth a watch for anybody who hasn't seen it.

Looking at the weather for tomorrow in South Ayrshire and it's doesn't look like the winds will be that strong, 11 mph predicted but gusts of 20 mph which might cause a problem. It's predicted there'll be rain about 5pm.

You could see somebody coming from behind to win this.

I'd love if Shane managed to come back and win it but it's hard to see it.

Will be fully up for Rose outside of Lowry, be some full circle since first seeing him as an amateur back in 98

The winds look to be up for the morning starters and dying off in the evening.

Billy big balls off to a flyer

Tee shot off 2 could be a confidence shaker 🫣

Should be -3 in a few minutes after that chip.

Lawrence was very close to going into the Coffin on 8. Lucky.

Someone needs to tell Sarah to stop shouting

Sin é…I think. Doesn’t look like there is any beating Xander.

surely to be renamed Sandy for the day…

Wouldn't mind seeing a replay of that Scheffler tee shot

Disappointingly damp squib of a finish.

Good that it was tight and somebody really went out and won it, savage scoring to do that

some par by Lawrence on the last.

Rory, aberg, hovland to name but three. All will have great chances 🤞