The Australians joined golf’s large weapons by failing to fireside throughout spherical one of many Open at Hoylake, with the highest of the leaderboard loaded with lesser-known names as an alternative.
South African beginner Christo Lamprecht and Emiliano Grillo are joint leaders with Tommy Fleetwood, intently adopted by Antoine Rozner, Adrian Otaegui and Brian Harman.
A number of Aussies are nonetheless within the combine after Thursday’s motion, however not one of the 10-player contingent fired an under-par spherical.
The very best have been younger gun Min Woo Lee and Lucas Herbert who have been each even-par, whereas Cameron Smith, Adam Scott and Jason Day have been all one shot additional again.
Additional down the record are Haydn Barron (3+), Harrison Crowe (5+), Connor McKinney (5+), David Micheluzzi (6+) and Travis Smyth (7+).
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In the meantime, Scott’s spherical included a wayward shot on the 18th tee that floored a fan and left him bloodied.
The sufferer was revealed as native brewery proprietor Christopher Ineson, who took the day without work work to observe the golf — however didn’t heed calls of “fore” earlier than he was struck.
“I heard the shout of ‘fore’ and everybody ducked. I noticed my mate duck after which it hit me proper on the again of the pinnacle,” he advised The Telegraph.
His buddy Rob Tuffnell added: “It appeared like a golf ball hitting mud or playdough.”
In response to the publication, he was left with a 3cm gash on the again of his head.
For his troubles, Scott provided a honest apology and introduced him with a signed glove.
The tee shot was the second all of it unravelled late for Scott, who was in the direction of the highest of the leaderboard heading to the sixteenth.
The 2013 Masters champion was two-under for the day however he made bogey on 16 earlier than a double bogey on the final noticed him end the day over-par.
Earlier, Herbert was briefly main the key after making an eagle at 15 that moved him to three-under.
Nevertheless, the 27-year-old threw all of it again simply two holes later with a disastrous triple bogey on 17.
Herbert missed the small placing floor to the left, earlier than his second shot ran by means of the inexperienced and into the perilous coffin bunker on the proper.
He took two pictures to flee that bunker earlier than finally settling for a six on the cardboard.
By comparability, Lee’s even-par spherical featured a double bogey early, however he solely had one different blemish to associate with three birdies.