All of the late flight are now on the course at Royal St Georges, but the man we watched at 4.30am est shoot an brilliant -5 65, Denmark's Thomas Bjorn still has a one shot lead over 47 year old Spaniard, Miguel Angel Jimenez at -4 66..
It is now 5.40pm in Sandwich and it has been a dull, rainy day, and as I mentioned yesterday, the breeze, it never was a wind by Open standards, has died down as the tide is now almost all the way out, so I expect someone from the late flight to challenge Bjorn's lead..
The ESPN feed we are getting has Curtis Strange and Tom Weiskopf whining about how cold it is, high 50'sF this morning, now mid 60'sF, and thankfully Peter Alyss the voice of golf for decades in the UK called them both 'wimps"!!
World #1 Luke Donald is around in +1 71, and #2 Lee Westwood who has the best of the weather is at +3 through 9.
If you have never seen Royal St Georges, it has more mounds, humps, hollows and slopes in the fairways and on the greens of any of the Open Championship courses, and it is great just watching these, the world's best golfers just scratching their heads as well struck approach shots catch the wrong side of a hillock and end up 60 feet from the hole. That's why Martin Kaymer said yesterday "the guy who makes the most 6-10 footers for par will win"
full scoreboard click on European Tour
1 BJORN, Thomas 18 DEN 65 65 -5
2 JIMENEZ, Miguel Angel 18 ESP 66 66 -4
T3 STANLEY, Kyle 16 USA -3 -3
T3 LEWIS, Tom (A) 8 ENG -3 -3
T5 DYSON, Simon 18 ENG 68 68 -2
T5 LARRAZABAL, Pablo 16 ESP -2 -2
T5 ANDERSSON HED, Fredrik 7 SWE -2 -2
T5 LEONARD, Justin 5 USA -2 -2
More details and a round one wrap later this evening
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles
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