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Benign conditions at the Open Championship on Thursday dulled the teeth of Royal St. George’s. The field produced more bogeyless laps on day one of the 149th Open (six) than all of the previous two trips to this site combined (2003 and 2011, four). Eighteen players shot 67 or better in the first round, 10 more than we saw all week 10 years ago.
Here are the main notes to know from the first day of the Open Championship:
1. Louis Oosthuizen jumped into the conversation again at a major championship, registering a 64 without a bogey at Royal St. George’s. It was only the second round without a bogey in Oosthuizen’s major championship career and his first in an open championship. History says that while Oosthuizen gets off to a good start in the Open, he stays near the top. The previous two times he started this championship with a round in the 60s, he won by seven strokes (2010) and lost a play-off (2015).
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