ESPN.com · Jul 21, 2023
The Open 2023: Lookahead to the second round
HOYLAKE, England -- The first round of the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club had a little bit of everything. Thursday began with 27-year-old Matthew Jordan hitting the opening tee shot at the course he grew up playing and ended with Rory McIlroy getting up and down from an impossible bunker on 18 to stay 5 shots back of the lead.
Only 31 players were able to chart their way through the tough links with an under-par score. One of them was a 6-foot-8 amateur from South Africa who plays at Georgia Tech named Christo Lamprecht. Another was Stewart Cink, a 50-year-old former Open winner who didn't get to the course until Tuesday.