For a handful of hours yesterday, the Old Course at St Andrew's was very vulnerable, and many players took advantage. None more so than young Rory McIlroy who shot a 63 to finish as the leader after day 1 at -9. McIlroy's 63 tied a record for the lowest opening round score in a major champiosnhip. The young stud, only 21 years old, was booming drives down the fairway and draining putts from all over the place.
Other players took advantage of the fair weather as well, including Tiger Woods and John Daly who came in at -5 and -6, respectively. Daly is a surprise to many, but he has played well at this course, winning here in 1995. However, it has been about 7 years since John Daly had a win on tour, so don't expect him to keep it up. Tiger played well but left quite a few birdies out there. He'll be hoping the new Billy Baroo can drain a few more of those today.
At the time of posting, play is about to resume in round 2 after a delay of about an hour. The leader in the clubhouse is Louis Oosthuizen, from South Africa. He's in at -12, and looks like everyone will be chasing him. The winds are howling, so don't expect too many low scores today unless it calms down or someone can manage to put up a nice score hitting low knock down shots.
I will update this post as things change throughout the day.
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