The Open 2018 - round one as it happened: Latest scores, leaderboard, news and updates from Carnoustie - Tiger Woods underway in first round
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Your support makes all the difference.The Open Championship is upon us once again.
The oldest tournament in golf returns to Carnoustie, one of the most fearsome courses on the rotation, for what promises to be a true test of the golfing elite. The weather won't help either. After a hot summer the Angus course is baked to a crisp giving even the tour's shortest hitters a chance to blast their way around this week. But watch out for those fairway bunkers.
World number one Dustin Johnson, defending champion Jordan Spieth and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy all hoping to be in contention come the back nine on Sunday. Don't rule out a charge from Tiger Woods either with the course conditions playing into the favour of the 14-time major winner.
We will have all the latest news, scores, updates and more from our man on the course, Ed Malyon, plus analysis from elsewhere right here.
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Russell Knox may be Scotland's best hope for a home win this weekend after winning the Irish Open, but he has gone tee-rough-bunker on the first.
Woods is in much better shape, bouncing to relatively close to the pin after landing his approach just short.
Hideki Matsuyama has seven major top-tens and is the third member of the group. Heart of the green with his second, and a birdie putt.
What a putt from Tony Finau at the last! A 67, four-under and one shot off compatriot Kevin Kisner at the top of the leaderboard.
One hole, one birdie for Tiger Woods. The putt was never in doubt after two perfect shots to begin his round.
Brooks Koepka unleashes another huge drive. This time he has too much juice and runs through the back of the third, which is only 352 yards.
On the second, Tiger Woods has hit another perfect drive.
Marc Leishman has his first blip of the day, escaping the ninth with bogey.
Three under at the turn, but he is in real trouble at 10. At least one shot gone after a chip and run fails to hold, and it could be two or three.
Hideki Matsuyama so nearly ends up in a bunker by the second green but stays out, leaving himself an awfully tricky chip with little green to work with.
Brooks Koepka's big drive gamble nearly works, but his putt rolls round the edge and he has to settle for par.
Double bogey for Leishman, who has crumbled after a bright start.
Woods with a right-to-left putt across the green. Pin high, on its way, pace looks good...
And it just slides past the hole. A good par.
Matsuyama's chip was controlled well, but he misses a relatively straightforward putt. A bogey.
Magic from McIlroy. He's in the thick stuff on the left-hand side but hacks it out brilliantly to leave himself a gettable putt at the eleventh.
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