{"id":76198,"date":"2026-07-17T01:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/the-open-2026-day-two-golf-updates-from-royal-birkdale-live\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:54:55","slug":"the-open-2026-day-two-golf-updates-from-royal-birkdale-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/the-open-2026-day-two-golf-updates-from-royal-birkdale-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open 2026: day two golf updates from Royal Birkdale \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0fUpdates from the second round at Royal Birkdale<br \/>\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard\">Official leaderboard<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:scott.murray.casual@theguardian.com\">Mail Scott<\/a> with your thoughts<\/p>\n<p><strong>If Suber is feeling the nerves this morning, they\u2019ve not been betrayed by his opening tee shot.<\/strong> A confident drive, striped down the middle of the fairway. He\u2019s going around with Sami Valimaki, who became the first Finnish player to win on the PGA Tour last year, with victory at the RSM Classic. It was Valimaki\u2019s 28th birthday yesterday, and the gallery sang Happy Birthday to him on 18. \u201cI thought that was pretty cool,\u201d said Suber.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suber seems to be enjoying discovering life on this side of the pond.<\/strong> He\u2019d never been to Europe before, but has travelled \u201cpretty much everywhere in Latin American and Canada\u201d. He thinks the UK is \u201cawesome \u2026 the golf is really cool, and just the towns, how the train system works.\u201d He went into Liverpool earlier this week with pal Pierceson Coody and partners. \u201cThat was really cool to see a European city.\u201d And when he was asked why he\u2019s not going to try driving on the other side of the road, he gave a reply as tinder-dry as the Birkdale rough: \u201cBecause I\u2019m trying to make it here for four days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/jul\/17\/the-open-2026-day-two-updates-from-birkdale-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0fUpdates from the second round at Royal Birkdale\ufe0fOfficial leaderboard | Mail Scott with your thoughts If Suber is feeling the nerves this morning, they\u2019ve not been betrayed by his opening tee shot. A confident drive, striped down the middle of the fairway. He\u2019s going around with Sami Valimaki, who became the first Finnish player to &#8230; <a title=\"The Open 2026: day two golf updates from Royal Birkdale \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/the-open-2026-day-two-golf-updates-from-royal-birkdale-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Open 2026: day two golf updates from 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-76198","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\/76198","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=76198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}