Thursday anecdotes

453 bunkers were raked on the first day of the 141st Open Championship.


Game 5 - Rhys Norville who was with Alejandro Canizares, Jeev Milkha Singh and Greg Chalmers were put on the clock from Hole 13.
Game 11 - Jamie Donaldson, Bill Haas and YE Yang was the match with Jez Hughes. On the 12th hole Jamie Donaldson took relief from a sprinkler head only for him to have to retrieve the ball from the bunker it then fell in.
Game 17 - Rob Sandilands was with match 42 of Rory McIlroy, Louis Oosterhuizen and Keegan Bradley when of course McIlroy's ball struck a young man on the head on the 15th hole where it then bounced out of bounds.