Fleetwood Atop the Board, Jordan Spieth Cards 69 - 2023 Open Championship Round 1 | The First Cut Podcast
The First Cut Golf
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4.5 • 664 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Rick Gehman is joined by Kyle Porter to discuss the opening round of the 151st Open Championship. Tommy Fleetwood tied atop, Jordan Spieth in the 60s with big names struggling in the first round. It's storylines, scorecards and betting favorites.
(0:00) Intro + the struggles of coffee golf
(3:20) Let’s talk about Royal Liverpool in Round 1 - course defense, pot bunkers, etc.
(14:45) First Round Leaders - A 6’6 amateur, Tommy Lad and Emiliano Grillo
(22:50) Jordan Spieth offers up a very Spiethian round + business as usual for Scottie Scheffler
(29:00) Other Notables - Wyndham Clark & Rickie Fowler
(35:15) Rory McIlroy put in a long day at the office, cards 71
(39:50) Jon Rahm stumbles to a 3-over, 74
(42:00) A rare major round in the 60s for Max Homa puts him in the mix
(46:30) Justin Thomas’ baffling 82 + Betting Favorites
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| 0:00.0 | Freaking first cut. |
| 0:05.5 | Golly. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to the first cut podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Rick Damon, and this is your round one recap for this week's Open Championship. |
| 0:16.6 | Joining me to break it all down. |
| 0:17.6 | Kyle Porter is here. |
| 0:18.9 | K.P. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello. |
| 0:22.9 | Hello, Rick. We got a new, a new setup. Josh has been messing around with the layouts, which I like it. I like it too. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah. I need to scoot. I need to, I need to scoot closer. You need to scoot back. You look a lot. |
| 0:35.8 | You look like a bigger human than me. We've got to figure out the, I could do this. This is like a little bit better, right? |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah, I'm going to, yeah, there we go. All right. I'll notice when we show it. When he shows |
| 0:48.5 | the scorecards, there's probably a different layout there too. He improvements improvements we are never done never done around here yeah he's |
| 0:55.7 | just uh he's always working on his game he's always grinding it's great 15 hours of golf i |
| 1:02.1 | think i think round two tea times are starting right now is that right i'm tired i'm uh i got a what time did you get up? Did you go to bed? I did. I, I, I woke up at |
| 1:16.2 | one, which was the speed group. So I want that when that team, when that group went off, I was up. |
| 1:21.6 | Okay. I was up at like, yeah, same thing, but my time. So it was like three something. |
| 1:28.6 | Right. |
| 1:30.8 | I don't feel horrible, but I've definitely felt it's usually Friday that it gets you. |
| 1:37.3 | Friday, early evening is like, it's kind of a mess. |
| 1:44.4 | Three hours ago, I felt horrible. |
| 1:46.1 | I think I've caught my second wind now. |
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