The 2015 Open Championship ***Warning: May Contain Spoilers***

[Jimaroid]

Current forecast is for 40+ mph winds on Saturday morning.
Would this be enough to halt play?
Would the ball be blown around the greens?

The current forecast is what we'd call a normal weekend so far this year. It doesn't look bad enough to halt play but we'll see, the greens are obviously faster now but we've had medals played in 45 mph+ gusts without halting play but it is borderline. I think the problem green is the 11th and it's supposedly been changed specifically to handle the Open setup in worse than the conditions predicted so we'll finally get to see how effective those changes were.

See what the morning brings. The one thing I've observed so far this year is that the forecast has been regularly wrong for us in east Fife for both better and worse.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Surprisingly Rickie Fowler was one of only four players who failed to make a birdie today (although he did have an eagle). #useless stat of the day.

 

[Slab]

Well overall day 1 didn't disappoint & looking forward to the weather turning a tad wet & windy today

I have DJ in the sweep so fingers crossed

Jeez but isn't Faldo a slow player! & why did he get so much airtime given his scoring when so many others were not shown much at all

This could go to anyone in the top 50

 

[Slab]

While we wait for coverage to start check out the Old Course webcam for a real-time look at what the weathers doing, it looks really fun... if your sitting at home!

edit: As it cycles through the views you can clearly see the flags on the grandstands are getting a good workout

 

[Jimaroid]

The rain has kept me awake since 5 this morning. Hope it clears a little so they can get going. I don't think it's bad enough to stop play all day.

 

[Slab]

The rain has kept me awake since 5 this morning. Hope it clears a little so they can get going. I don't think it's bad enough to stop play all day.

Just seen the start is delayed.

All those gaudy colours on the Open website but the 'play suspended' message in light grey on a grey background, loons!

 

[Slab]

Woohoo play to get underway (one tee only) from 10am your time

 

[Jimaroid]

Looking like good conditions for midday and a few hours following. The early groups yesterday are in for the strong winds later today so the scores could pivot and even up a lot more. Great stuff!

 

[FairwayDodger]

Looking like good conditions for midday and a few hours following. The early groups yesterday are in for the strong winds later today so the scores could pivot and even up a lot more. Great stuff!

Was rotten earlier but it looks beautiful in Edinburgh now. Blue sky, sun shining.... hope that's heading for St Andrews too.

 

[Paul77]

The old course now resembles the way the 5 courses near me have looked in June and July so far this year. One of them closed today because of the rain, and preferred lies sign is still up on mine. Not great.

The Scottish weather will tame the scores a bit today though. Mother nature saves St Andrews from a scoring slaughter.

 

[garyinderry]

Amazing how a few hundred miles makes such a difference to the weather.


I only realised when I moved to Liverpool. It rains all the time back home. Hard to believe that preferred lies are in play when our course has been backed solid for months.

 

[Slicer30]

Amazing how a few hundred miles makes such a difference to the weather.


I only realised when I moved to Liverpool. It rains all the time back home. Hard to believe that preferred lies are in play when our course has been backed solid for months.

I hear ya - When I moved to London from County Antrim in 2003 it was like moving to the mediterranean. That was a warm summer but a lot less rain.

 

[garyinderry]

I am in a whatsapp group with my old four ball back home. Get regular updates on weather and course conditions. Truly is unbelievable at times. most of the time I am in shorts and they are in their wet gear.

Ive gone soft living here. Not a fan of golf in the rain now. Before I would have golfed in a hurricane.

 

[Jimaroid]

Mother nature saves St Andrews from a scoring slaughter.

Hmm. Not really but we'll see, even softer conditions make some lower scores possible.

The recent weather has blessed players with a much easier course than they would have had a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Slab]

Amazing how a few hundred miles makes such a difference to the weather.


I only realised when I moved to Liverpool. It rains all the time back home. Hard to believe that preferred lies are in play when our course has been backed solid for months.

Agree, when I moved it was barely 6,000 miles and the climate is positively tropical compared to home, its mental!

 

[garyinderry]

just the 6000miles. hardly Pluto is it? :rofl:

 

[BrizoH71]

Saw a useless stat on Twitter last night about the last six Open winners came from within the top-10 and ties after the first round.

If that stat is to continue, it would rule out everyone below Oosthuizen.

 

[davidy233]

Decent enough rounds from Rose and Fowler yesterday considering they were lumbered with an 11 handicapper as their third player

 

[Paul77]

Lovely slo-mo camera work there in the interlude as Jimenez pulls his cigar away from his gob with trailing stringy slobber still stuck to the cigar. Hmmm I was on lunch too.

 

[azazel]

I can't believe Faldo was paired with Rose and Fowler. Pretty harsh on them. Almost as bad as being shown what felt like every one of his (duff) shots.