A look at some of the standout figures from The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush.
First Round
Jacob Skov Olesen was the first player from Denmark to jointly-lead after a round at The Open since Thomas Bjørn was in the joint-lead after the first round in 2011 at Royal St George’s.
In his tenth appearance in The Open, Matt Fitzpatrick has recorded his lowest first round (67, -4) to date
and equalled his second lowest round in The Open.
Christiaan Bezuidenhout’s four-under-par 67 in the first round was his lowest round in The Open in his sixth appearance.
Haotong Li and Justin Rose were the only players to complete bogey-free rounds.
Second Round
With rounds of 68, 64 to reach the halfway mark of 132 (-10), Scottie Scheffler set a new record of 132 for the first 36 holes at Royal Portrush in The Open.
Scheffler’s score of 64 was the lowest of the second round and only one shot off the course record of 63 set in the third round in 2019 by Shane Lowry.
With a five-under-par 66 in the second round, Matt Fitzpatrick equalled his lowest round in The Open set at St Andrews in the second round in 2022.
For the second round in a row Harry Hall was the best putter in the field, taking 24 putts over the 18 holes, an average of 1.33 putts per green.
Out of the nine amateurs in the field, none made the cut meaning that there will be no Silver Medal awarded this year. This is the first year since 2019, also at Royal Portrush, that no Silver Medal has been awarded.
Bryson DeChambeau’s round of 64 was the lowest of the final round and, along with Scheffler’s
second round of 64, the lowest score of the week.
Nine of the 16 former Champions playing in The 153rd Open have made the cut (Brian Harman, Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth, Shane Lowry, Justin Leonard, Henrik Stenson and Francesco Molinari).
Third Round
John Parry’s hole-in-one at the 13th hole is the 31st at The Open since records have been kept in 1981. Parry used an eight iron and the hole was playing 192 yards today, with an official yardage of 199.
Lee Westwood’s back nine of 29 in the third round equals the record for the lowest back nine in The Open. The record was initially set by Ryan Fox in 2019, also at Royal Portrush.
Stroke average for the third round was 69.971, the first time that a round in The Open at Royal Portrush has played under-par.
Final Round
Scheffler’s score of 267 is a record for The Open at Royal Portrush, two strokes lower than
Shane Lowry’s total of 269 in 2019.
Scheffler’s score of 267 equals the third lowest score ever in The Open behind only Henrik
Stenson (264 at Royal Troon in 2016) and Collin Morikawa (265 at Royal St George’s in 2021).
Scheffler is the second player to win The Open whilst being world number one in the Official
World Golf Ranking. The first player to do so was Tiger Woods (in 2000, 2005 and 2006).
Scheffler is the third successive player from the United States of America to win The Open and
the 34th overall.
Scheffler is the twelfth different player to shoot four rounds under 70 in The Open and the
seventh Champion to shoot four rounds under 70 and win The Open.
Scottie Scheffler’s win at Royal Portrush extends the current streak of first-time winners of The
Open. The streak currently sits at twelve first-time Champions and sets a new record for the
span of first-time winners. The streak started with Phil Mickelson in 2013 through to Scheffler in
2025. The only span of first-time winners in majors that is longer is the period of 19 winners of
the PGA Championship between 1952 and 1970.
Nicolai Højgaard has become just the eleventh different player to card four rounds under 70 in
The Open. This is the seventh time a player has failed to win The Open despite carding four
rounds in the 60s.
Bryson DeChambeau (65, 68, 64) and Wyndham Clark’s (66, 66, 65) last 54-hole totals of 197
are the second lowest in The Open, only one stroke behind the record of 196 set by Henrik
Stenson at Royal Troon in 2016.
