{"id":2505155,"date":"2026-07-16T20:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2505155"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:52:06","slug":"who-is-leading-the-154th-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/who-is-leading-the-154th-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is leading | The 154th Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"article-copy\"><em>This live report will be updated throughout the Championship with details of who is leading The 154th Open. Follow <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard\">live scoring here<\/a> and our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/liveblog\">live blog here<\/a>. You can also watch live streams, highlights and feature videos on R&amp;A TV.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-summary\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=70000994\">Jackson Suber<\/a> leads The 154th Open after a superb opening round of 65 at Royal Birkdale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-copy\">An outstanding approach shot to the 17th provided the highlight of the American&#8217;s five-under-par round, setting up an eagle that lifted him one clear of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=145037\">Sungjae Im<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=50018738\">Daniel Brown<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-copy\">Im and Brown played together in game seven and each carded 66s on a day of warm weather in Southport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-copy\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=70000945\">Alex Smalley<\/a>\u00a0made it to five-under with one to play, but a wayward tee shot on the 18th led to a double-bogey. He is joined on three-under by the likes of\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=146554\">Collin Morikawa<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=139507\">Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=145044\">Robert MacIntyre<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.325px;\">and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard?popupPlayerId=73334\" target=\"_blank\">Francesco Molinari<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theopen.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This live report will be updated throughout the Championship with details of who is leading The 154th Open. Follow live scoring here and our live blog here. You can also watch live streams, highlights and feature videos on R&amp;A TV. Jackson Suber leads The 154th Open after a superb opening round of 65 at Royal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2505156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Who-is-leading-The-154th-Open.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505157,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505155\/revisions\/2505157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}