Am i stealing "banter" from Dana? Maybe so.. but i don't think he'll mind.

Anybody else keeping up with the first round scores, or better yet is anyone there/going to be there to see it live?

Since it isn't being televised for another 3 and a half hours (to the best of my knowledge) i'm just following the leaderboard on espn.
British Open Championship Golf Leaderboard and Results - ESPN

Some brief info on the tournament:
Dates: July 16, 2009 – July 19, 2009
Location: Turnberry, Scotland
Course: The Ailsa Course at Turnberry
Tour: PGA Tour, PGA European Tour, Japan Golf Tour
Par: 70
Yardage: 7,250 yards
Purse: $8,637,720
Important Dates:
Thursday 16 July — First group: 6.30 a.m. Final group: 4.21 p.m.
Friday 17 July — First group: 6.30 a.m. Final group: 4.21 p.m.
Saturday 18 July — First group: 8.30 a.m. (approx). Final group: 2.30 p.m.
Sunday 19 July — First group: 8.30 a.m. (approx). Final group: 2.30 p.m.
Past British Open Champions:
2008 Pádraig Harrington 283 (+3)
2007 Pádraig Harrington 277 (-7)
2006 Tiger Woods 270 (-18)
2005 Tiger Woods 274 (-14)
2004 Todd Hamilton 274 (-10)
2003 Ben Curtis 283 (-1)
2002 Ernie Els 278 (-6)
2001 David Duval 274 (-10)
2000 Tiger Woods 269 (-19)


For those of you hoping to catch it on TV, here's the schedule.

TV Viewing Guide:
Thursday, July 16: 6:30AM – 7:00PM ET on TNT
Friday, July 17: 7:00AM – 7:00PM ET on TNT
Saturday July 18: 7:00AM – 9:00AM ET on TNT
Saturday July 18: TBA on ESPN
Sunday July 19: 6:00AM – 8:00AM ET on TNT
Sunday July 19: TBA on ESPN


Picks to win?
Who's going to make a bigger impact, Duval or Daly?
Chances Padraig three-peats?

 

Will Thursday's round be replayed later in the day? I completely forgot to set my DVR.

As for Padraig, I'm a big fan of his, but I'm not sure he'll three-peat. He hasn't been playing to his potential as of late. But we'll see.

 

TNT has it on from 7am-3pm est today according to my DirecTV guide.

Going off Paddy's recent form I wouldn't expect to see him even contend, but he's not far off today. The leaderboard is stacked with ball strikers and bombers with Mr Woods shooting a shaky round.

Boy do I hope to see some real Open weather this weekend.

 

While you can't win an Open on the first day, you can certainly lose it.

Go Watson!

 

I have Paul Casey and Retief Goosen.

Daly's outfit is something else today.

 

I have Rickie Fowler to win the US Pub Links, taking place in OK this week.

 

My TV Box says TNT will be showing it from 4am to 4 pm HST. so thats 10am-10pm EST. So i guess they're showing a repeat of round 1 immediate following their initial coverage.

 

There's the Open weather! Wow.

 

damn, tiger's falling apart. he's going to miss the cut.

 

woke up this morning and found out tiger missed the cut. i still can't believe it.