The Open Championship R2

Open Championship 2021 R2
July 15-18
Royal St George’s Golf Club, Sandwich, Kent
$11,500,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4

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Louis Oosthuizen backed up his opening round 64 with a 65 on Friday to take a two shot lead at 11-under in the 149th Open Championship at Royal St George’s Golf Club.

He produced four birdies, an eagle at the par-5 14th and a single bogey at the par-3 16th, his first of the tournament.

Open Championship 2021 R2

His total 129 sets a new record over the first 36 holes at The Open, beating the previous mark of 130 set by Nick Faldo at Muirfield in 1992 and equalled by Brandt Snedeker at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 2012.

“I only heard that when I walked in,” he said of his new record. “I was not aware of what it was but to have any record at The Open is always very special.

“I think I have really played good the last two days and today we got lucky the last nine holes. It was as good weather as you can get playing this course and all of us took advantage.

Open Championship 2021 R2

“Right now I think where my game is at, I just need to put myself in position, and this year is the best I’ve been putting, and I just need to hit greens and give myself any opportunities for birdies.

“Around this golf course, a lot of things can happen. I don’t think you want to think too much of it on a links course until you get to that 18th green and hopefully you have a lead.”

Open Championship 2021 R2

Collin Morikawa started the day three shots behind the leader but with four birdies on the front nine he reached the turn in 31. He made three more on the back nine as well as a single bogey at the par-4 15th to close with a 64, setting the clubhouse target at 9-under.

“Just sticking to what I’ve been doing. Yesterday I thought I played really well. Just wasn’t hitting as many fairways. Was able to hit a few more fairways early on in the round today.

“When I’m in the fairway with a 9-iron or 8-iron I feel very comfortable. Not necessarily going straight at the pins but being aggressive with the lines I need to take and slopes you need to play.

“Yeah, sometimes you have those days where you’re very fortunate to have good numbers, and today was one of those days.”

Open Championship 2021 R2

Jordan Spieth started his round with three birdies and a bogey then parred the rest of the front nine to make the turn in 33. He made two more birdies and another bogey to close with a 67. He currently lies in third place at 8-under.

World number 1 Dustin Johnson produced a 65, firing six birdies and two bogeys, to reach 5-under and a share of fourth place alongside Dylan Frittelli (67) and Scottie Scheffler (66).

Jonathan Thomson made a hole-in-one at the par-3 16th and closed with a 67 to reach 2-under and T31 alongside eight others, among them Ian Poulter (66), Tommy Fleetwood (71) and Lee Westwood (67).

Open Championship 2021 R2

Matthias Schmid closed with a 65 equalling the lowest individual round by an amateur at The Open. Tom Lewis had previously shot 65 at Royal St George’s in 2011. Schmid is T40 at 1-under.

The cut line of 141 sets a new record at The Open by two strokes. The previous lowest of 143 occurred eight times in the last thirty Championship (1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2006, 2011 & 2012).

Sixty three players had rounds under 70 on Friday, a new record for a single round at The Open, the previous, set in the first round at Turnberry in 2009, was fifty.

Open Championship 2021 R2

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	Total
1	Louis Oosthuizen	-11	64	65	129
2	Collin Morikawa	-9	67	64	131
3	Jordan Spieth	-8	65	67	132
T4	Dylan Frittelli	-7	66	67	133
T4	Dustin Johnson	-7	68	65	133
T4	Scottie Scheffler	-7	67	66	133
T7	Emiliano Grillo	-6	70	64	134
T7	Justin Harding	-6	67	67	134
T7	Marcel Siem	-6	67	67	134
T7	Andy Sullivan	-6	67	67	134
T7	Daniel van Tonder	-6	68	66	134
T12	Paul Casey	-5	68	67	135
T12	Mackenzie Hughes	-5	66	69	135
T12	Brooks Koepka	-5	69	66	135
T12	Jon Rahm	-5	71	64	135
T12	Cameron Tringale	-5	69	66	135
T17	Corey Conners	-4	68	68	136
T17	Tony Finau	-4	70	66	136
T17	Ryan Fox	-4	68	68	136
T17	Brian Harman	-4	65	71	136
T17	Shane Lowry	-4	71	65	136
T17	Cameron Smith	-4	69	67	136
T17	Brandt Snedeker	-4	68	68	136
T17	Danny Willett	-4	67	69	136
T25	Byeong Hun An	-3	67	70	137
T25	Daniel Berger	-3	70	67	137
T25	Dean Burmester	-3	70	67	137
T25	Joel Dahmen	-3	69	68	137
T25	Sergio Garcia	-3	68	69	137
T25	Justin Rose	-3	67	70	137
T31	Tommy Fleetwood	-2	67	71	138
T31	Ian Poulter	-2	72	66	138
T31	Chez Reavie	-2	72	66	138
T31	Jack Senior	-2	67	71	138
T31	Webb Simpson	-2	66	72	138
T31	Jonathan Thomson	-2	71	67	138
T31	Johannes Veerman	-2	70	68	138
T31	Matt Wallace	-2	70	68	138
T31	Lee Westwood	-2	71	67	138
T40	Lanto Griffin	-1	69	70	139
T40	Max Homa	-1	70	69	139
T40	Billy Horschel	-1	70	69	139
T40	Viktor Hovland	-1	68	71	139
T40	Jazz Janewattananond	-1	70	69	139
T40	Chan Kim	-1	70	69	139
T40	Kevin Kisner	-1	70	69	139
T40	Joaquin Niemann	-1	69	70	139
T40	Aaron Rai	-1	70	69	139
T40	Matthias Schmid (a)	-1	74	65	139
T40	Adam Scott	-1	73	66	139
T40	Kevin Streelman	-1	70	69	139
T40	Justin Thomas	-1	72	67	139
T53	Abraham Ancer	E	69	71	140
T53	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	E	68	72	140
T53	Richard Bland	E	70	70	140
T53	Sam Burns	E	71	69	140
T53	Harris English	E	75	65	140
T53	Matt Fitzpatrick	E	71	69	140
T53	Padraig Harrington	E	72	68	140
T53	Benjamin Hebert	E	66	74	140
T53	Sam Horsfield	E	70	70	140
T53	Jason Kokrak	E	70	70	140
T53	Rory McIlroy	E	70	70	140
T53	Xander Schauffele	E	69	71	140
T65	Marcus Armitage	+1	69	72	141
T65	Bryson DeChambeau	+1	71	70	141
T65	Rickie Fowler	+1	69	72	141
T65	Talor Gooch	+1	69	72	141
T65	Ryosuke Kinoshita	+1	72	69	141
T65	Yuxin Lin (a)	+1	69	72	141
T65	Robert MacIntyre	+1	72	69	141
T65	Richard Mansell	+1	72	69	141
T65	JC Ritchie	+1	71	70	141
T65	Antoine Rozner	+1	70	71	141
T65	Poom Saksansin	+1	73	68	141
T65	Brendan Steele	+1	73	68	141
T65	Bernd Wiesberger	+1	71	70	141
CUT	Keegan Bradley	+2	71	71	142
CUT	Jorge Campillo	+2	72	70	142
CUT	Tyrrell Hatton	+2	72	70	142
CUT	Russell Henley	+2	70	72	142
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	+2	70	72	142
CUT	Rikard Karlberg	+2	72	70	142
CUT	Martin Kaymer	+2	74	68	142
CUT	Marcus Kinhult	+2	69	73	142
CUT	Chris Kirk	+2	68	74	142
CUT	Kurt Kitayama	+2	71	71	142
CUT	Marc Leishman	+2	75	67	142
CUT	Guido Migliozzi	+2	69	73	142
CUT	Francesco Molinari	+2	68	74	142
CUT	Sebastián Muñoz	+2	73	69	142
CUT	Ryutaro Nagano	+2	70	72	142
CUT	Ryan Palmer	+2	72	70	142
CUT	Victor Perez	+2	70	72	142
CUT	Henrik Stenson	+2	71	71	142
CUT	Harold Varner III	+2	70	72	142
CUT	Jimmy Walker	+2	70	72	142
CUT	Rafa Cabrera Bello	+3	70	73	143
CUT	Patrick Cantlay	+3	74	69	143
CUT	Stewart Cink	+3	66	77	143
CUT	Branden Grace	+3	72	71	143
CUT	Lucas Herbert	+3	70	73	143
CUT	Daniel Hillier	+3	72	71	143
CUT	Charley Hoffman	+3	72	71	143
CUT	Matt Jones	+3	72	71	143
CUT	Min Woo Lee	+3	74	69	143
CUT	Troy Merritt	+3	73	70	143
CUT	Shaun Norris	+3	72	71	143
CUT	Patrick Reed	+3	72	71	143
CUT	Matthias Schwab	+3	71	72	143
CUT	Laird Shepherd (a)	+3	74	69	143
CUT	Brendon Todd	+3	72	71	143
CUT	Gary Woodland	+3	73	70	143
CUT	Erik van Rooyen	+3	69	74	143
CUT	John Catlin	+4	75	69	144
CUT	Ricardo Celia	+4	72	72	144
CUT	Ernie Els	+4	72	72	144
CUT	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	+4	71	73	144
CUT	Adam Hadwin	+4	75	69	144
CUT	Richard T. Lee	+4	75	69	144
CUT	Haotong Li	+4	75	69	144
CUT	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	+4	75	69	144
CUT	Keith Mitchell	+4	68	76	144
CUT	Jason Scrivener	+4	73	71	144
CUT	Jason Day	+5	75	70	145
CUT	Lucas Glover	+5	75	70	145
CUT	Brad Kennedy	+5	71	74	145
CUT	Alex Noren	+5	74	71	145
CUT	Carlos Ortiz	+5	75	70	145
CUT	Darren Clarke	+6	71	75	146
CUT	Thomas Detry	+6	72	74	146
CUT	Cole Hammer (a)	+6	75	71	146
CUT	Rikuya Hoshino	+6	74	72	146
CUT	Matt Kuchar	+6	74	72	146
CUT	Joe Long (a)	+6	73	73	146
CUT	Jaco Ahlers	+7	68	79	147
CUT	Sam Bairstow (a)	+7	75	72	147
CUT	Christoffer Bring (a)	+7	72	75	147
CUT	Romain Langasque	+7	74	73	147
CUT	Joost Luiten	+7	76	71	147
CUT	C.T. Pan	+7	71	76	147
CUT	Garrick Higgo	+8	73	75	148
CUT	Nicholas Poppleton	+8	75	73	148
CUT	Paul Waring	+8	72	76	148
CUT	Abel Gallegos (a)	+9	73	76	149
CUT	Ben Hutchinson	+9	77	72	149
CUT	Adam Long	+9	72	77	149
CUT	Aaron Pike	+9	74	75	149
CUT	Marcel Schneider	+9	73	76	149
CUT	Sam Forgan	+10	73	77	150
CUT	Connor Worsdall	+10	77	73	150
CUT	Phil Mickelson	+12	80	72	152
CUT	Daniel Croft	+14	76	78	154
CUT	Yuki Inamori	+16	75	81	156
CUT	Deyen Lawson	+17	80	77	157
W/D	Will Zalatoris	-1	69		69