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[u]06:30 3 Ball - Estes - O Hara - Jones[/u] Estes - Whole of the first round bogey free - that is an impressive achievement. O'Hara - A triple at the 15th cost him any chance of a reasonable score. Jones - Will feel good after finishing with a pair of birdies [b]Selection: Jones will move away the other two.[/b] [u]06:41 3 Ball - Pagunsan - Pinckney - Cullen[/u] Pagunsan - Will be encouraged by an opening 71. Might be as good as it gets. Pinckney - Only hit 5 fairways so how he scored 68 is amazing. Cullen - Going so well until he triple bogeyed the last. That isn't going to make his task any easier. [b]Selection: Go with Cullen to overcome his last hole blues.[/b] [u]06:52 3 Ball - Alker - Slattery - Thompson[/u] Alker - Decent long game and isn't overly fazed by the occasion. Slattery...

[u]Tournament History[/u] First staged at Prestwick, way back in 1860, the Open Championship is the oldest of the four major championships and it's the only one played outside of the USA. Still regarded as the biggest and best of the four, it's always played out on a seaside links course. This will be the 141st staging of the Open Championship. [u]Venue[/u] Royal Lytham and St Annes, Lancashire, England [u]Course Details[/u] Par 70, 7086 yards Lytham opened in 1897 and the original course design is accredited to the then course pro, George Lowe, but Harry Colt, in 1919, Ken Cotten, in 1952, and most recently Martin Ebert, have all put their mark on the course too. Lytham's been used for the Open Championship on ten previous occasions and every winner has been top-class. Starting...

Barring the Ryder Cup, the Open Championship has to be my favourite tournament of the year. Not least because it's the only chance we Brits get to watch a Major championship during daylight hours! There's also something really schadenfreude about watching spectators, players, and officials reach a state of hyperthermia, in supposedly the height of summer, whilst you're watching from an armchair with a hot drink and a pork pie in your hand. It doesn't have to be a pork pie of course, but the pleasure's still the same. So who likes the cold, who likes links golf, who can hit a straight shot with rain belting into their faces, and just who can get around Royal Lytham & St Annes four times in the least shots. No-one at this stage knows the exact answer, but an in-form player is usually...