The Open 2025: Fitzpatrick in five-way tie for Open lead as Scheffler and McIlroy lurk – as it happened

Matt Fitzpatrick is joint-top of the leaderboard after the first round, with Rory McIlroy within touching distance

Padraig Harrington bogeys the par-three 3rd as well. Two putts from 42 feet far from a gimme … and he doesn’t make them. His place at the top is taken by Jacob Skov Olesen: the 26-year-old Dane, making his professional debut at the Open – he finished in a tie for 60th at Troon as an amateur – tramlines a 40-foot putt on 1. Had that not hit the cup, it was halfway to Giant’s Causeway. A sizzling Danish start to the Open.

-1: Højgaard (3), Olesen (1)

E: Harrington (3), Migliozzi (2)

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