ISPS HANDA Senior Open R2

Simon Bale|July 25, 2025

Keywords: golf major, ISPS HANDA Senior Open, Padraig Harrington, PGA Tour Champions

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Pádraig Harrington started the day four shots behind the lead and fired a bogey-free, 5-under 65 to reach 8-under and take a one-shot lead at the ISPS HANDA Senior Open.

“I rode my luck a lot today,” said the Irishman. “Got my head in the game. Did a lot of good stuff mentally. Short game was sharp.

“Hit some recovery shots and managed my game, but I never showed much confidence out there at all in my swing.”

Harrington is aiming to follow in the footsteps of Bob Charles, Gary Player, Tom Watson and Darren Clarke as the fifth player to win the Open Championship and Senior Open.

He seeks his eleventhth win on PGA Tour Champions and third senior major championship title in his 59th career start.

With a victory Harrington would become the only player on Tour with multiple wins in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Pádraig Harrington will take a one-shot lead going into the weekend #SeniorOpen | @padraig_h

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After concluding his first-round 70 with a double-bogey on the 18th hole, Dane Thomas Bjørn posted the lowest round of his Champions Tour career with a 7-under 63 having eagled the par-4 11th and made seven birdies and two bogeys. He is tied in second place at 7-under alongside defending champion KJ Choi of Korea whose 67 was also marred by a pair of bogeys.

Bjørn seeks his first individual title on PGA Tour Champions after winning the American Family Insurance Championship with teammate Darren Clarke last month.

Australian Cameron Percy eagled the par-5 1st holes and made five birdies and two bogeys for a 65 and a share of fourth place at 6-under alongside Argentinian Ricardo Gonzalez who made one bogey for a 67, South African Ernie Els who made who made one eagle at the par-5 14th and one bogey for a 65 and American Justin Leonard who eagled the par-5 14th and made one bogey for a 65

New Zealand’s Steven Alker, who held the overnight lead after a first-round 63, had a difficult time on Friday making three birdies, two bogeys and two double bogeys at the par-3 4th and the par-4 11th for a 3-over 73 and a share of tenth place at 4-under.

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Pos.	Player	Total	R1	R2	Total
1	Padraig Harrington	-8	67	65	132
T2	Thomas Bjørn	-7	70	63	133
T2	K.J. Choi	-7	66	67	133
T4	Cameron Percy	-6	69	65	134
T4	Ernie Els	-6	67	67	134
T4	Ricardo Gonzalez	-6	67	67	134
T4	Justin Leonard	-6	69	65	134
T8	Steve Allan	-5	68	67	135
T8	Greg Owen	-5	71	64	135
T10	Corey Pavin	-4	68	68	136
T10	Paul Lawrie	-4	69	67	136
T10	Mark Hensby	-4	64	72	136
T10	Kevin Sutherland	-4	69	67	136
T10	Steven Alker	-4	63	73	136
T10	Y.E. Yang	-4	70	66	136
T10	Stephen Gallacher	-4	68	68	136
T10	Greg Chalmers	-4	70	66	136
T18	Tom Pernice Jr.	-3	68	69	137
T18	Alex Cejka	-3	72	65	137
T18	Miguel Angel Jiménez	-3	67	70	137
T18	Richard Green	-3	68	69	137
T18	Retief Goosen	-3	67	70	137
T18	Shane Bertsch	-3	70	67	137
T18	Michael Wright	-3	72	65	137
T25	Jerry Kelly	-2	69	69	138
T25	Ángel Cabrera	-2	69	69	138
T25	Stuart Appleby	-2	70	68	138
T25	Joakim Haeggman	-2	69	69	138
T25	Joe Durant	-2	66	72	138
T25	Charlie Wi	-2	67	71	138
T25	Clark Dennis	-2	70	68	138
T25	Bob Estes	-2	70	68	138
T25	Simon Griffiths	-2	70	68	138
T25	Darren Fichardt	-2	68	70	138
T25	Chad Campbell	-2	70	68	138
T36	Matthew Cort	-1	70	69	139
T36	Keith Horne	-1	70	69	139
T36	Steve Webster	-1	70	69	139
T36	Mark Brown	-1	70	69	139
T36	Anthony Wall	-1	68	71	139
T36	Darren Clarke	-1	70	69	139
T36	Ian Woosnam	-1	69	70	139
T36	Arjun Atwal	-1	67	72	139
T36	Matt Gogel	-1	71	68	139
T36	Paul Goydos	-1	71	68	139
T36	Thomas Gögele	-1	70	69	139
T36	John Rollins	-1	69	70	139
T36	Scott Hend	-1	68	71	139
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T49	Bo Van Pelt	Par	73	67	140
T49	Bernhard Langer	Par	72	68	140
T49	Robert Coles	Par	71	69	140
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T49	Jason Caron	Par	71	69	140
T49	Euan McIntosh	Par	71	69	140
T49	David Drysdale	Par	70	70	140
T49	Paul Stankowski	Par	68	72	140
T49	Phillip Price	Par	69	71	140
T49	Jeev Milkha Singh	Par	71	69	140
T49	Colin Montgomerie	Par	69	71	140
T49	J.J. Henry	Par	70	70	140
T49	Mikael Lundberg	Par	74	66	140
T63	Billy Mayfair	+1	68	73	141
T63	Stephen Ames	+1	69	72	141
T63	Peter Baker	+1	71	70	141
T63	James Kingston	+1	71	70	141
T63	Billy Andrade	+1	70	71	141
T63	Ariel Cañete	+1	69	72	141
T63	Tim O'Neal	+1	67	74	141
T63	Maarten Lafeber	+1	68	73	141
T63	Jyoti Randhawa	+1	70	71	141
T63	Steve Flesch	+1	72	69	141
T63	Bradley Dredge	+1	73	68	141
T63	Tim Petrovic	+1	70	71	141
T63	Mark Wilson	+1	73	68	141
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CUT	Andrew Marshall	+2	71	71	142
CUT	David Duval	+2	73	69	142
CUT	Søren Kjeldsen	+2	75	67	142
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CUT	Scott McCarron	+2	74	68	142
CUT	Scott Dunlap	+2	74	68	142
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CUT	Brian Gay	+2	71	71	142
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CUT	Michael Long	+3	71	72	143
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CUT	Shinichi Yokota	+4	72	72	144
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CUT	Miguel Angel Martin	+4	71	73	144
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CUT	Paul Broadhurst	+4	70	74	144
CUT	Chris DiMarco	+4	72	72	144
CUT	Doug Barron	+5	69	76	145
CUT	Ik Jae Jang	+5	72	73	145
CUT	Brian Davis	+5	75	70	145
CUT	Van Phillips	+5	76	69	145
CUT	Robert Karlsson	+5	72	73	145
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CUT	Rafael Benitez	+7	72	75	147
CUT	Thomas Levet	+7	74	73	147
CUT	Patrik Sjöland	+7	74	73	147
CUT	José María Olazábal	+7	74	73	147
CUT	Jarmo Sandelin	+7	72	75	147
CUT	Niclas Fasth	+7	71	76	147
CUT	Felipe Aguilar	+8	74	74	148
CUT	Andre Bossert	+8	76	72	148
CUT	Rodrigo Lacerda Soares(a)	+8	75	73	148
CUT	Tom Kalinowski	+9	79	70	149
CUT	Jeff Sluman	+9	76	73	149
CUT	Philip Golding	+10	74	76	150
CUT	Michael Jonzon	+10	70	80	150
CUT	Freddie Jacobson	+11	78	73	151
CUT	Richard Warburton(a)	+11	75	76	151
CUT	Carlos Balmaseda	+11	75	76	151
CUT	Carl Suneson	+11	74	77	151
CUT	David Bransdon	+11	75	76	151
CUT	Rich Beem	+11	76	75	151
CUT	Paul Streeter	+12	75	77	152
CUT	Gary Wolstenholme	+12	79	73	152
CUT	Paul Smith	+12	77	75	152
CUT	John Kennedy(a)	+13	80	73	153
CUT	Ryan Dreyer	+13	74	79	153
CUT	Graham Laing	+21	79	82	161
W/D	Nobuhiro Masuda	-	-	-	-

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Updated: July 26, 2025