Shane Lowry made a flawless begin to his bid for a second Open title as Rory McIlroy successfully wrote off his possibilities of doing the identical at Royal Troon.Â
Lowry carded 5 birdies in a bogey-free 66 that was solely surpassed by England’s Daniel Brown, returning a superb 65 to say a shock lead on his main debut.Â
In the meantime, downbeat McIlroy had earlier dismissed his possibilities of mounting a problem for a fifth main title after a pricey run across the flip.
McIlroy was degree par after seven holes earlier than working up a double bogey on the signature par-three eighth, the Northern Irishman’s first try to flee a bunker on the Postage Stamp coming again to his ft.
Second Spherical tee instances (all instances BST)
Beginning at Gap 1; GB and Eire until said; (a) denotes amateurs
6.35am Ewen Ferguson, Marcel Siem (Ger)6.46am Yuto Katsuragawa (Jap), Romain Langasque (Fra), Cheng-Tsung Pan (Tai)6.57am Angel Hidalgo (Spa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jap), Richard Mansell7.08am Jorge Campillo (Spa), Corey Conners (Can), Ryan Fox (NZ)7.19am Ernie Els (RSA), Altin van der Merwe (RSA) (a), Gary Woodland (USA)7.30am Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Jacob Olesen (Den) (a), Henrik Stenson (Swe)7.41am Billy Horschel (USA), Louis Oosthuizen (RSA), Victor Perez (Fra)7.52am Jordan Smith, Sepp Straka (Aut), Brendon Todd (USA)8.03am Denny McCarthy (USA), Adrian Meronk (Pol), Taylor Moore (USA)8.14am Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Jason Day (Aus), Rickie Fowler (USA)8.25am Alex Cejka (Ger), Eric Cole (USA), Kurt Kitayama (USA)8.36am Dean Burmester (Rsa), Darren Clarke, J. T. Poston (USA)8.47am Dustin Johnson (USA), Joost Luiten (Ned), Phil Mickelson (USA)9.03am Padraig Harrington, Matthew Jordan, Davis Thompson (USA)9.14am Wyndham Clark (USA), Brooks Koepka (USA), Hideki Matsuyama (Jap)9.25am Patrick Cantlay (USA), Xander Schauffele (USA), Tiger Woods (USA)9.36am Sam Burns (USA), Si-Woo Kim (Kor), Collin Morikawa (USA)9:47am Matthew Fitzpatrick, Shane Lowry, Cameron Smith (Aus)9.58am Scottie Scheffler (USA), Jordan Spieth (USA), Cameron Younger (USA)10.09am Akshay Bhatia (USA), Tom Hoge (USA), Sami Valimaki (Fin)10.20am Ben Griffin (USA), Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Mackenzie Hughes (Can)10.31am Joseph Dean, Andy Ogletree (USA), Yannik Paul (Ger)10.42am Charlie Lindh (Swe), Luis Masaveu (Spa) (a) , Ryan van Velzen (Rsa)10.53am Kazuma Kobori (NZ), Jaime Montojo (Spa) (a) , Liam Nolan (a)11.04am Denwit Boriboonsub (Tha), Daniel Brown, Matthew Dodd-Berry (a)11.15am Sam Horsfield, Aguri Iwasaki (Jpn), Jeung-Hun Wang (Kor)11.26am Todd Hamilton (USA), Justin Leonard (USA), Jack McDonald11.47am Tom McKibbin, Calum Scott (a), Alexander Noren (Swe)11.58am Michael Hendry (NZ), Vincent Norrman (Swe), Jesper Svensson (Swe)
12.09pm Daniel Hillier (NZ), Ryosuke Kinoshita (Jpn), Younger-Han Music (Kor)12.20pm Abraham Ancer (Mex), Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn), Min-Woo Lee (Aus)12.31pm Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Keita Nakajima (Jap), Adam Scott (Aus)12.42pm Francesco Molinari (Ita), Justin Rose, Jasper Stubbs (Aus) (a)12.53pm Sung-Jae Im (Kor), Matthew Southgate, Justin Thomas (USA)1.04pm Laurie Canter, Nick Taylor (Can), Matt Wallace1.15pm Matteo Manassero (Ita), Shubhankar Sharma (Ind), Sebastian Soederberg (Swe)1.26pm Austin Eckroat (USA), Zach Johnson (USA), Thorbjoern Olesen (Den)1.37pm John Daly (USA), Santiago De La Fuente (Mex) (a), Aaron Rai1.48pm Stewart Cink (USA), Dominic Clemons (a), Chris Kirk (USA)2.04pm Stephan Jaeger (Ger), Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Adam Schenk (USA)2.15pm Christiaan Bezuidenhout (RSA), Lucas Glover (USA), Adam Hadwin (Can)2.26pm Tony Finau (USA), Russell Henley (USA), Matthieu Pavon (Fra)2.37pm Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre, Jon Rahm (Spa)2.48pm Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Bryson DeChambeau (USA), Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor)2.59pm Brian Harman (USA), Viktor Hovland (Nor), Sahith Theegala (USA)3.10pm Tyrrell Hatton, Max Homa (USA), Rory McIlroy3.21pm Keegan Bradley (USA), Gordon Sargent (USA) (a), Will Zalatoris (USA)3.32pm Alexander Bjoerk (Swe), Harris English (USA), Maverick McNealy (USA)3.43pm Sean Crocker (USA), Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Tommy Morrison (USA) (a)3.54pm John Catlin (USA), Gun-Taek Koh (Kor), David Puig (Spa)4.05pm Daniel Bradbury, Thriston Lawrence (RSA), Elvis Smylie (Aus)4.16pm Ignacio Elvira (Spa), Darren Fichardt (RSA), Min-Kyu Kim (Kor)4.27pm Mason Andersen (USA), Sam Hutsby, Masahiro Kawamura (Jap)
