The Open Championship leaderboard and standings: Live updates, scores and highlights from Round 1

Welcome back to The Open Championship. The final major of the 2025 golf season is no longer something to look ahead to as the action at Royal Portrush Golf Club is underway. Not everyone is looking, especially in the United States, to get up well before the crack of done with coffee and watch the golf. But we sure are. There's no better time than The Open and all of the history that you can feel on a links style course.

The weather was unpredictable immediately on Thursday at The Open when Padraig Harrington hit the opening tee shot. The wind was gusting up to nearly 30 mph with sustained winds all over the place. That's when the rain came into the picture, which stopped for a bit, but then came back with a vengeance. Such is life when you're talking about golf on the Portrush, Northern Ireland coast. And that's also what fans love about the British Open.

But if you're waking up late or just simply trying to follow the leaderboard and the action, we have you covered as we'll be updating you with every major shot and The Open standings throughout the round.

The Open leaderboard and standings

Notable Scores in Round 1 at The Open

• T17. Phil Mickelson -1 (F)
• T17. Jon Rahm -1 (F)
• T17. Shane Lowry -1 (F)
• T17. Viktor Hovland -1 (F)
• T33. Xander Schauffele E (F)
• T33. Rory McIlroy E (3)
• T33. Justin Thomas E (3)
• T33. Tommy Fleetwood E (3)
• T61. Cameron Smith +1 (F)
• T84. JJ Spaun +1 (F)
• T84. Dustin Johnson +2 (F)
• T84. Patrick Cantlay +2 (F)
• T84. Bryson DeChambeau +2 (4)
• T84. Jordan Spieth +2 (4)
• T84. Ludvig Åberg +2 (4)
• T117. Collin Morikawa +4 (F)
• T117. Brooks Koepka +4 (F)
• T131. Patrick Reed +5 (17)

The leaderboard will update periodically with scores.

We certainly got some big surprises to start The Open Championship, not the least of which was the two men sitting atop the leaderboard, Jakob Skov Olesen and Haotong Li, a little less than midway through Thursday's action. The former, a 26-year-old from Denmark, teed it up on Thursday for just his second career major championship start and took it to Royal Portrush, buoyed by an expert short game. He bogeyed the last to finish 4-over. Li, meanwhile, played some brilliant golf after showing some positive signs in his game recently, and continued to do so with a strong, bogey-free round.

Later in the round, though, it was Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick made a charge of his own. After some inauspicious form early in the year, he's started to come on as of late. He showed more of that at Portrush, putting together an eagle, a birdie and one bogey on the front nine and then playing a smooth back nine to tie for the lead.

Then, lo and behold, that Scottie Scheffler guy started to get hot to finish his final round. He birdied Calamity Corner and then followed that up with another birdie on 17 to put him one off of the lead. He got another decent-ish birdie look on the 18th, but it broke low of the hole to wrap up a great round with a par, just one back.

As the late wave really started to get going, Viktor Hovl

Open Championship live updates and highlights

Updates will come periodically in reverse chronological order.

Viktor Hovland makes an early statement

Hovland was garnering quite a lot of buzz coming into The Open and, after a par on the first, he made that look quite wise as the talented Norwegian played the Par-5 second hole to perfection and sank the eagle putt.

Scottie Scheffler heats up to finish Round 1

Just when you thought it was going to be a ho-hum round from the No. 1 player in the world, he started to find his groove. Scheffler entered the final three holes at 1-under, but then birdied Nos. 16 and 17 to move within one shot of the lead.

Just look at where U.S. Open champ JJ Spaun had to play from

JJ Spaun was just a little bit off line on the 16th hole, and it left golf fans with just an unreal visual as he hit his second shot trying to get up onto the green at Calamity Corner.

Matt Fitzpatrick pitches in on Calamity Corner to tie for lead

Fitzy was playing tremendous golf, but his most impressive shot came on the brutal 16th hole, known as Calamity Corner, when he came up in the chasm to short-right of the green on the Par-3 tee shot, but made up for it with a brilliant chip in to tie for the lead at 4-under.

Jon Rahm gets heated at Open Championship fans

Rahm was off to a solid start at Portrush, but his infamous temper showed up on one tee box. A fan appeared to whistle during the backswing with his driver. As the ball shot out into the rough on a poor tee shot, he let his displeasure be heard.

Hometown hero Darren Clarke delivers moment to remember

Former Open Champion and Northern Ireland native, Darren Clarke (he actually hit the opening tee shot in 2019) was never in serious contention from the start on Thursday. But he gave his home country's fans something special on the 17th hole. Buried in deep rough next to the green, he punched it out and it fell into the cup for the second birdie of his round.

Shane Lowry really loves Portrush

Lowry won The Open in 2019, the last time it was at Royal Portrush. It seemed like the good feels hadn't gone anywhere either as he started his round hot with a couple of birdies to get right into the mix.

J.S. Olesen's short game pushes him into the lead

After having earlier holed a 42-foot eagle putt to push to 4-under, he used his chipping to put another low number on the card. He bogeyed the 18th to give it back and fall into a tie for the lead, but Olesen was dialed around the greens.

Phil Mickelson makes early noise

Not many people were talking about Mickelson entering the week, but he changed that with some short game wizardry and some really solid tee-to-green play early in his round.

Last 5 winners of The Open Championship

The Open wasn't played in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's been a lot of heavy hitters getting it done at the British Open in recent years. Brian Harman is obviously the outlier among this, but his dominance at Royal Liverpool still stands out among some of the most impressive major championship performances that we've seen in recent years. He was a longshot, but elite play was still rewarded in the end.

And it's also impossible not to note that, six years ago when The Open finally returned to Portrush, it was Irishman Shane Lowry that earned the victory in dominant fashion of his own.

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