The Open Championship First Round Leader Tips

The 150th showing of the The Open Championship is just days away with the best golfers on the planet all heading to St Andrews in Scotland in an attempt to win the 2022 Open Championship.

We have some exclusive Open Championship betting tips for SportsLens readers which you can check out by clicking the link, but this article is all about the first 18 holes. Who do you think will be the first round leader at the end of play on Thursday? Without any further ado, here is who we fancy to be at the top of the leaderboard after their opening 18 holes around the Old Course at the famous St Andrews Links.

The 150th Open Championship Preview

This week is the turn of the fourth major of the year; The Open. All of the world’s best golfers are heading to Scotland this week in a bid to win the final major championship of the year, in what should be an entertaining, spine-tingling and exciting week of golf at St Andrews.

Some notable names such as world number one and Masters champion, Scottie Scheffler, three-time Open Championship winner, Tiger Woods, and the 2022 PGA Championship victor from earlier this year, Justin Thomas all feature this week at The 150th Open Championship at the ‘Home of Golf’.

Taking a look at the course itself, St Andrews Links is a complete masterpiece. It is highly regarded as one of the best golf courses in the world. The Old Course is a par 72 and is 7,305 yards in length. The Open has been held here on 29 previous occasions, as well as hosting The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship several times over the years. The course record is held by Englishman Ross Fisher, who cared an -11, 61 back in 2017.

With this week bringing us the fourth and final major of the year, there is a truly mouth-watering prize fund to play for as you may well expect. The prize money for this event is staggering. The prize pot is a tasty $11.5 million, with the winner taking home a tidy $2,070,000.

Back to the point in question, who will be sitting pretty at the top of the leaderboard after their opening 18 holes of golf up in Scotland? Here is who we think has the best chance of being right up at the top of the leaderboard come Thursday night after Round 1 of The Open.

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