Articles by Steve Douglas | AAP

July 15th, 2026

‘I’ll be dead’: Open Championship favourites playing for now, not legacies

Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are chasing a second claret jug in the British Open at Royal Birkdale this week, but not a boost to their legacies.

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Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Scottie Scheffler	-16	F	4
2	Viktor Hovland	-13	F	4
3	Ryan Gerard	-12	F	4
T4	Alex Fitzpatrick	-11	F	4
T4	Jacob Bridgeman	-11	F	4
T4	Min Woo Lee	-11	F	4
T4	Russell Henley	-11	F	4
T4	Rory McIlroy	-11	F	4
T4	Chris Gotterup	-11	F	4
T4	Ludvig Åberg	-11	F	4
T11	Tommy Fleetwood	-10	F	4
T11	Cam Young	-10	F	4
T11	Adam Scott	-10	F	4
T14	Xander Schauffele	-9	F	4
T14	Tom Kim	-9	F	4
T14	Collin Morikawa	-9	F	4
T14	S.W. Kim	-9	F	4
T18	Akshay Bhatia	-7	F	4
T18	Justin Rose	-7	F	4
T18	Sam Burns	-7	F	4
T21	Patrick Cantlay	-5	F	4
T21	Hideki Matsuyama	-5	F	4
T21	Matt Fitzpatrick	-5	F	4
T21	Wyndham Clark	-5	F	4
25	Kristoffer Reitan	-3	F	4
26	Ryan Fox	-2	F	4
27	Alex Smalley	-1	F	4
28	Robert MacIntyre	E	F	4
29	Gary Woodland	+2	F	4
WD	J.J. Spaun	-	-

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Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Michael La Sasso	-18	18	4
2	Jon Rahm	-17	18	4
T3	Bryson DeChambeau	-16	18	4
T3	Sergio Garcia	-16	18	4
T5	Richard T. Lee	-15	18	4
T5	Scott Vincent	-15	18	4
T5	Laurie Canter	-15	18	4
8	Dean Burmester	-14	18	4
9	Richard Bland	-13	18	4
T10	Marc Leishman	-12	18	4
T10	Thomas Detry	-12	18	4
T12	Björn Hellgren	-11	18	4
T12	Tom McKibbin	-11	18	4
T12	Matthew Wolff	-11	18	4
T12	Bubba Watson	-11	18	4
T12	Younghan Song	-11	18	4
T17	Lucas Herbert	-10	18	4
T17	Byeong Hun An	-10	18	4
T17	Abraham Ancer	-10	18	4
T17	Branden Grace	-10	18	4
T17	Joaquin Niemann	-10	18	4
T17	Harold Varner III	-10	18	4
T17	Thomas Pieters	-10	18	4
T17	Josele Ballester	-10	18	4
T17	Cameron Smith	-10	18	4
26	Ian Poulter	-9	18	4
T27	Charles Howell III	-8	18	4
T27	Peter Uihlein	-8	18	4
T27	Tyrrell Hatton	-8	18	4
T27	Caleb Surratt	-8	18	4
T27	Lee Westwood	-8	18	4
T32	Danny Lee	-7	18	4
T32	Brendan Steele	-7	18	4
T34	Anthony Kim	-6	18	4
T34	Adrian Meronk	-6	18	4
T36	Sebastian Muñoz	-5	18	4
T36	Yosuke Asaji	-5	18	4
T36	Carlos Ortiz	-5	18	4
T39	Do-Yeob Mun	-4	18	4
T39	Luis Masaveu	-4	18	4
T39	Dustin Johnson	-4	18	4
T39	Travis Smyth	-4	18	4
T43	Louis Oosthuizen	-3	18	4
T43	Talor Gooch	-3	18	4
T45	Paul Casey	-2	18	4
T45	Miguel Tabuena	-2	18	4
T45	Charl Schwartzel	-2	18	4
T45	Minkyu Kim	-2	18	4
49	David Puig	-1	18	4
T50	Martin Kaymer	E	18	4
T50	Ollie Schniederjans	E	18	4
T52	Cameron Tringale	+2	18	4
T52	Graeme McDowell	+2	18	4
54	Jason Kokrak	+5	18	4
55	Sam Horsfield	+6	18	4
56	Anirban Lahiri	+9	18	4
57	Max Rottluff	+10	18	4

Articles by Steve Douglas | AAP

‘I’ll be dead’: Open Championship favourites playing for now, not legacies

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