16 h. ago The Open 2025: first round updates from Royal Portrush – live

Latest updates from the opening day of the 153rd OpenLive official leaderboard | And you can drop Scott a mailGood morning and welcome to our live coverage of the 153rd Open Championship. Xander Schauffele, who saw off Billy Horschel, Justin Rose and Thriston Lawrence at Troon last year, is the defending champion and yet because this edition will be contested on the links of Royal Portrush in County Antrim, it kind of feels like Shane Lowry, the winner here in 2019, is defending too. Hey, we don’t write the rules, it just does.Another Irish winner on home soil, then? Lowry fancies doubling up, while course-record holder Rory McIlroy will doubtless think the old place owes him one after that quadruple-bogey start in 2019 and subsequent tearful missed cut. Tom McKibbin, 2007 and 2008 winner Padraig Harrington and 2011 champion Darren Clarke also hear Ireland’s call. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Who is the richest golf player in the world 2025? Top 15 richest golfers ever

Here are the 15 golfers with the biggest net worth in the world ahead of The Open Championship 2025.

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32 h. ago Xander Schauffele sends clear message to wife after getting rid of all his golf trophies

Xander Schauffele is coming into The Open championship at Royal Portrush as the defending champion, but just don't ask the two-time major winner to see his trophies

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53 h. ago Open champ doesn't know where his trophies are as honest Xander Schauffele admits it's 'dogs or nothing'

Schauffele full of honesty and humour ahead of title defence at Royal Portrush as he aims to make it Two-In-A-Row

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55 h. ago The Open tee times: First round groupings and start times at Royal Portrush including Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler

Alongside Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, contenders for the Claret Jug come in the shape of defending champion Xander Schauffele and home favourite Shane Lowry after his famous victory here in 2019

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56 h. ago Xander Schauffele sent strong message from dad over £148m LIV Golf offer

Xander Schauffele was offered up to £148m ($200m) to join the LIV Golf breakaway league, but his father Stefan urged him to remain loyal to the PGA Tour

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58 h. ago Xander Schauffele trying to ‘piece way back’ ahead of Open defence

Schauffele has lost the momentum from his double major win last year.

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62 h. ago PGA Tour ace's dad appalled by Rory McIlroy behaviour and incident with Shane Lowry's wife

The drama that occurred at the 2023 edition of the Ryder Cup has left Xander Schauffele's father, Stefan, on a mission to boycott the event later this year

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4 d. ago No Ryder Cup regrets for Keegan Bradley over huge call as Team USA pal insists he can wear two hats

Xander Schauffele has no doubt his captain won't regret his choice

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6 d. ago Can Portrush return light Rory McIlroy’s fire? – Open Championship talking points

Tommy Fleetwood is England’s top-ranked player at 13.

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8 d. ago Photo by the toilet sums up my season says Xander Schauffele

Schauffele is playing at the Scottish Open in preparation for the defence of his Claret Jug and a large photo of him is up by the men’s toilets in the media centre

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9 d. ago Xander Schauffele talks drinking too much and toilets as he hunts form

Open champion candid on the tough road back from injury lay-off

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9 d. ago Xander Schauffele aims to flush away swing struggles in Genesis Scottish Open

2022 winner looking for confidence boost ahead of his Open title defence at Royal Portrush

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3 w. ago I hope this is the last piece I ever have to write in defence of assisted dying | Polly Toynbee

Today’s vote is on a knife edge. MPs must take their chance to drive forward personal freedoms – and add to Labour’s legacyMPs, read this horror before you vote today. Here’s how some people are slowly dying, right now, in mortal agony untreatable by the best palliative care: “Some will retch at the stench of their own body rotting. Some will vomit their own faeces. Some will suffocate, slowly, inexorably, over several days.” An average of 17 people a day are dying these bad deaths, according to 2019 figures, as reported by palliative care professionals who see it happen.The Inescapable Truth, a report from Dignity in Dying, revealed what is usually kept hidden from us: the shocking last months for the unluckiest. It could happen to you or me. The assisted dying bill’s final Commons vote today is no abstract debate about slippery slopes or what God wants: to do nothing is to inflict torture on many.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnistIn the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contact...

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