{"id":76157,"date":"2026-07-16T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/the-open-2026-golf-updates-from-day-one-at-royal-birkdale-live\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:55:15","slug":"the-open-2026-golf-updates-from-day-one-at-royal-birkdale-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/the-open-2026-golf-updates-from-day-one-at-royal-birkdale-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open 2026: golf updates from day one at Royal Birkdale \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0fUpdates from the first-round action at Royal Birkdale<br \/>\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/15\/golf-open-royal-birkdale-rory-mcilroy\">Ewan Murray\u2019s preview<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard\">Official leaderboard<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:scott.murray@theguardian.com\">Mail Scott<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The opening tee shot will be taken by Matthew Baldwin.<\/strong> The 40-year-old is born and Southport bred, and started playing golf at the age of three when his grandfather took him out to a local field. A huge ovation as he takes to the tee. A driving iron \u2026 and he sends it down the right-hand side of the fairway. Out of bounds on that side, but he\u2019s nowhere near. As for his partners: Thomas Detry stripes a monster drive, while James Nicholas hooks into nonsense down the left. First tee nerves!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the 154th Open Championship.<\/strong> Who will prevail at Royal Birkdale? The reigning champion and world number one Scottie Scheffler? Rory McIlroy, long overdue a major title that isn\u2019t the Masters? Local hero Tommy Fleetwood? Justin Rose, who wowed \u2018em here as an amateur in 1998? Or \u2026 there are many ors, and we could be here all day. Actually, we <em>will<\/em> be here all day, and here\u2019s the running order (all times BST) \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/jul\/16\/the-open-2026-golf-updates-from-day-one-at-royal-birkdale-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0fUpdates from the first-round action at Royal Birkdale\ufe0fEwan Murray\u2019s preview | Official leaderboard | Mail Scott The opening tee shot will be taken by Matthew Baldwin. The 40-year-old is born and Southport bred, and started playing golf at the age of three when his grandfather took him out to a local field. A huge ovation &#8230; <a title=\"The Open 2026: golf updates from day one at Royal Birkdale \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/the-open-2026-golf-updates-from-day-one-at-royal-birkdale-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Open 2026: golf updates from day one at Royal Birkdale \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}