At this bizarre, unsettling British Open, golfers sometimes wonder if they're losing their minds.
“No,” said Scottie Scheffler, the reigning Masters champion ranked first in the world. “I kid you not, I think the fairways are faster than the greens in some spots.”Tiger Woods gets a divot and a gust and a 78, but it’s still meaningful
And to think he shot a 68, joining a throng of 26 with scores in the 60s. That deepened a trend at St. Andrews in this century of supersonic equipment; there were 23 first rounds in the 60s here in 2015, 45 in out-of-control 2010, 20 in 2005, 25 in 2000. The early scores Thursday, with Cameron Young’s 8-under-par 64 the uppermost, caused some frets that old St. Andrews might suffer bombardment, a worry with a solution: Ask Rory.
Ample people thrived still. They included two of golf’s impressive number of Camerons: Young out front and Smith in third place with a 5-under 67. They included a bushel of those who have quit competitive golf and joined LIV Golf: Talor Gooch , Dustin Johnson , Lee Westwood , Ian Poulter and Bryson DeChambeau .
They included three names from the golf-mastery country of South Korea, all with 69s: Joo-Hyung Kim, K.H. Lee and Si Woo Kim, the last of whom gave anyone sitting at No. 17 a memory by holing out from the Godzilla bunker there.
“It’s the fiddliest Open that I’ve played,” said McIlroy, who has played 12 previously. “It’s the only way I can really describe it. It’s just really fiddly out there. Carnoustie was firm in 2018, but it wasn’t like this.
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