Standing all night! Let's be weird and follow The Open in the first round of Carnoustie

The Open Championship is the most unique major championship of men's golf. The style of play, the sets, the courses, the night watch in the United States and the history distinguish it from the others. There are so many things that make up The Open's identity and this year's edition at Carnoustie will be particularly distinct.

David Duval, an open champion who saw things to this commander, said that he could not remember something like that during his 22 years of playing in the championship. This is because Scotland is in a drought. Carnoustie, the northernmost place of the Open Rota, has hardly experienced rain in the last six weeks. The fairways are of a crisp brown and run almost as fast as the greens. This looks different but if you can appreciate the history of this championship, and how a link should play, you will know that the look is not just different, but actually it 's not. is beautiful.

Duval is an authority to talk about the uniqueness of conditions. The comparisons will immediately move to 2006 at Royal Liverpool, where Tiger won on a baked course by hitting only one driver all week. This week's strategies on the longest course that the Open has to offer will vary. And that's what makes it so interesting and fun to watch as the best in the world are trying to figure out how to tackle a totally different challenge and play a totally different style.

This may not be the bite of a typical open carnoustie, but it'll be fun to watch. Follow her here all night and day.

Updates

1:35 AM – We're up! The coffee is poured. Golf Channel is running … and it seems like a volunteer marshal is going to have the honor and lead things to Carnoustie. Wait, it's not Sandy Lyle in an official rain jacket and cap. Mr. Lyle is on the mark this morning and seems to have done serious damage in the tent of merch this week.

1:47 am. . – Andy Sullivan gets on the board with our first birdie of the championship. Sullivan does not take any time and just squeezes a putt into the heart of the cup on the first green.

1:53 AM – We have our first reverse mortgage announcement with a budget-bad that really pounding the house you're looking at in the middle of the golf night.

2:25 AM – The course seems gutted in this morning wave. While the walkways run like concrete, the greens are rather soft and receptive. We have seen players stop the ball on a dime and even turn it 15 to 20 feet. The firm aisles make it play shorter, the wind is low and the greens hold. This sounds like a recipe for a low ride, especially if it stays calm. This is not the Carnoustie of 2007 or 1999.

2:30 AM – Oh my Lyle also has an official open golf shirt too . I die. It's an unholy hour and I'm delirious but it's the very first favorite curiosity of this 147th Open. It's probably his last Open that he celebrated his 60th birthday and an ex-champion was eliminated but he leaves his mark.

2:55 AM – Thomas Pieters led the green on the first 393-yard hole. Pieters is one of the biggest hitters in the world, but that should give you an idea of ​​how strong and how fast this layout is playing. You have to spin one and roll it close to perfection, but there will be chances of eagle and birdie Thursday

3:10 am – Phil Mickelson is really our first big head of the day. and it 's going right after 8 am local time. Phil should lick his chops giving these conditions. It will have a clean course with few players before treading the greens, unlike Tiger, who plays at the very end of the day. His tee shot was an indicator of how this place is cooked – we get clouds of dust instead of divots:

3:50 am – This is the most dramatic story of the first part of the first round. Per Todd Lewis on the Golf Channel show, Jhonattan Vegas is in a race to make his tee time. Vegas had a visa problem – he discovered that it had expired the day he was scheduled to travel, and then a British consulate expedition was lost by a courier. Vegas eventually left Houston and connected to Toronto, but was separated from his clubs. It will land in Glasgow at 8:45 am Thursday and will then go by helicopter to Carnoustie to try to make his departure time at 10:31. His equipment company has set up a set of clubs for him when he arrives. Wild history! If he plays well with new clubs, without training and without ever seeing the course, it will be the turn of the day.

Standings

Cooking conditions may give low scores here on the first day, where the wind is minimal at first. Although the fairways are as firm and fast as possible, the greens have obviously been watered and kept much more slowly, so they will remain playable if strong winds start beating Carnoustie. The greens revolve around 10 on the stimpmeter and play pretty responsive. Birdies can be there all day. Here are your rankings:

Thursday Departures

A tradition of the Open is that all 156 players come out of tee # 1 for an endless first two days. The daylight in Scotland at this time of year covers about 17 or 18 hours. You can play deep in the night, after 22 hours. The Open never uses a start in two starts as the other two majors with 156-player field. They simply do not have to do it and it's an Open tradition and links to only start on # 1. Once, and because of an adverse weather, they have used a two part departure in the history of The Open.

The forecasts are clear this week, so everyone will roll number 1 and ask the starter to announce their name, whether it be well before breakfast or the approach of dinner. The t-shirt runs from 6:35 local to 16:15. This is an incredible spread and only at the Open could Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods start a whopping seven hours apart. Here are some of your groups and time for the first round (all times ET):

03:03: Phil Mickelson, Satoshi Kodaira, Rafa Cabrera Bello

4:58: Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose, Kiradech Aphibarnrat [19659021] 5h09: Jon Rahm, Ricky Fowler, Chris Wood

5:20 am: Louis Oosthuizen, Paul Casey, Patrick Reed

7:31 am: Henrik Stenson, Tommy Fleetwood, Jimmy Walker

7:53 am: Rory McIlroy, Marc Leishman, Thorbjorn Olesen

8:04 am: Dustin Johnson, Alex Noren, Charley Hoffman

8:26 am: Justin Thomas, Francesco Molinari, Branden Grace

] 9:48 am: Padraig Harrington, Bubba Watson, Matt Wallace

9:59 am: Ian Poulter, Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka

10:10 am: Sergio Garcia, Bryson DeChambeau, Shubhankar Sharma

10: 21h00: Tiger Woods, Matsuyama Hideki, Russell Knox

Thursday Media Schedule

A new tradition of The Open is also the watch from wall to wall. Since Golf Channel and NBC acquired the rights of this major, they put on a monster broadcast of 14.5 hours for the first two rounds. They depart live for the first tee shot at 1:30 am in the eastern United States and then let it run all night and day. It's an incredible, heavy show, which is in its third year.

In addition to TV coverage, there will also be the usual menu of stream offers if you are stuck at work and want to watch from your desk. Tiger Woods will be late and in the marquee group during the US Labor Day on Thursday. This feed is also free and does not require a cable connection. Here are your media options for Thursday at the British Open:

Television:

1:30 pm to 4:00 pm – Golf Channel

1: 30 am to 4 pm Online stream:

– Simultaneous broadcast of the Golf Channel broadcast channel

from 1:30 pm to 4 pm – Spotlight coverage

from 4:00 pm to 3:00 pm – 3-hole stream focusing on numbers 8 to 10

Group Feed of Selection

• 5:09 – Rickie Fowler / Jon Rahm / Chris Wood
• 10:21 – Tiger Woods / Hideki Matsuyama / Russell Knox

Radio:

2 – 3 pm – Sirius Radio Tour XM PGA (Ch. 92/208)