Collated first round scores in the 152nd British Open at Royal Troon Golf Club (Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 71; (a) denotes amateurs):
68 – Justin Thomas (USA)
69 – Joseph Dean, Russell Henley (USA), Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Justin Rose, Xander Schauffele (USA), Alexander Noren (Swe)
70 – Matthew Fitzpatrick, Chris Kirk (USA), Brooks Koepka (USA), Scottie Scheffler (USA), Adam Scott (Aus), Sepp Straka (Aut), Matt Wallace
71 – Dean Burmester (Rsa), Laurie Canter, Corey Conners (Can), Tony Finau (USA), Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Matthew Jordan, Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Min-Woo Lee (Aus), Maverick McNealy (USA), Joaquin Niemann (Chi), (a) Calum Scott, Young-Han Song (Kor), Jordan Spieth (USA)
72 – Eric Cole (USA), Sean Crocker (USA), (a) Matthew Dodd-Berry, Padraig Harrington, Billy Horschel (USA), Masahiro Kawamura (Jpn), Robert MacIntyre, Thorbjoern Olesen (Den), Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Jesper Svensson (Swe), Jeung-Hun Wang (Kor)
73 – Abraham Ancer (Mex), Alexander Bjoerk (Swe), Patrick Cantlay (USA), Alex Cejka (Ger), Jason Day (Aus), Austin Eckroat (USA), Ryan Fox (Nzl), Brian Harman (USA), Tyrrell Hatton, Min-Kyu Kim (Kor), Kazuma Kobori (Nzl), Matteo Manassero (Ita), (a) Luis Masaveu (Spa), Denny McCarthy (USA), Tom McKibbin, Adrian Meronk (Pol), Phil Mickelson (USA), Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Francesco Molinari (Ita), Collin Morikawa (USA), Jon Rahm (Spa), Marcel Siem (Ger), Matthew Southgate, Brendon Todd (USA), Sami Valimaki (Fin), Cameron Young (USA), Aaron Rai
74 – Keegan Bradley (USA), Ewen Ferguson, Michael Hendry (Nzl), Tom Hoge (USA), Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Sam Hutsby, Aguri Iwasaki (Jpn), Stephan Jaeger (Ger), Dustin Johnson (USA), (a) Jaime Montojo (Spa), Victor Perez (Fra), Adam Schenk (USA), Davis Thompson (USA)
75 – Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Adam Hadwin (Can), Viktor Hovland (Nor), Ryosuke Kinoshita (Jpn), Charlie Lindh (Swe), Joost Luiten (Ned), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), (a) Tommy Morrison (USA), Andy Ogletree (USA), Nick Taylor (Can), Richard Mansell, Sam Horsfield
76 – Mason Andersen (USA), Akshay Bhatia (USA), Sam Burns (USA), John Catlin (USA), Stewart Cink (USA), Bryson DeChambeau (USA), Ignacio Elvira (Spa), Harris English (USA), Tommy Fleetwood, Daniel Hillier (Nzl), Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn), Max Homa (USA), Sung-Jae Im (Kor), Zach Johnson (USA), Yuto Katsuragawa (Jpn), Si-Woo Kim (Kor), Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Jack McDonald, Shubhankar Sharma (Ind), Jordan Smith, Elvis Smylie (Aus), Gary Woodland (USA), Will Zalatoris (USA), (a) Jacob Skov Olesen (Den)
77 – Darren Clarke, (a) Dominic Clemons, Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Lucas Glover (USA), Angel Hidalgo (Spa), Kurt Kitayama (USA), Yannik Paul (Ger), Henrik Stenson (Swe), Sahith Theegala (USA)
78 – Denwit Boriboonsub (Tha), Wyndham Clark (USA), (a) Santiago De La Fuente (Mex), Rory McIlroy, Taylor Moore (USA), (a) Liam Nolan, Vincent Norrman (Swe), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), J. T. Poston (USA)
79 – Rickie Fowler (USA), Ben Griffin (USA), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Chengtsung Pan (Tai), (a) Altin van der Merwe (Rsa), Ryan van Velzen (Rsa), Tiger Woods (USA)
80 – Jorge Campillo (Spa), Justin Leonard (USA), Keita Nakajima (Jpn), David Puig (Spa), (a) Gordon Sargent (USA), Cameron Smith (Aus), (a) Jasper Stubbs (Aus)
81 – Gun-Taek Koh (Kor)
82 – John Daly (USA), Ernie Els (Rsa), Todd Hamilton (USA)
83 – Daniel Bradbury
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