After the first round of the open championship, 1 word was on everyone’s lips

Tyrrell Hatton left the course at Royal Thursday after the purpose of one three under 68 to open The 153th open championship. In addition to a number of burnt edges, it was an excellent round by the Englishman, which is going from a loss nearly 2025 US Open in Oakmont, on a Northern Ireland track that threw its fast and some out-of-world fields in the world on Thursday.

How did he find Hatton, who spent the afternoon barking into the greens and making gestures in his veil, found the round of the oldest golf Major in Portrush?

“I’m happy with the way I played there. It was very complicated ever, and of course the last three, four holes that the wind really gets,” Hatton said.

Very complicated.

If there is a word to describe Thursday in the open championship – from holes to conditions – it was “complicated”. Whether you found yourself connected to the lead with 18 holes or after the last year, Royal Portrush, in the opening round, was difficult to fold than a snake cube.

Eight hours before Hatton left the scene after his first round, Nicolai Hoygaard entered the germ after a round two and received the message.

“It was complicated; I thought the course was complicated,” Hojgaard said. “There were a lot of way out, and I felt like it was difficult to hit the right roads. But yes, the course is playing exactly how we want it. It is complicated. The wind is complicated. But if you are in control, you can make birds there.”

Added Northern Ireland member and portrait Tom McKibbin, who shot one: “It was complicated. Some of Pin’s positions are really good. They are a little more than the slopes. I played here many times, and you would never think of the pins where they are. She played quite complex.”

Players like Adam Scott, Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia, who withdrew in the early part of the afternoon wave, were rainy from the gate, which made the holes more difficult, and then had to deal with the most strange conditions in the most challenging part of the nine back.

Which, of course, added only to the fair, but the harsh Royal Portrush test is presenting this week.

“It’s a complex golf course, depending on where the wind is and what kind of weather we have,” said Fowler, who opened with a round of two under. “You have to think about your way around him and hit – you still execute, but you also know when you can probably play on the aggressive side or when you have to play conservatives or just stay smart and get what gives you the course.”

Garcia made three birds right in nine money but gave some back to shoot a round of opening 70. He’s three back leadership packs in four under.

“I thought the conditions were not very bad, but they were sometimes complicated,” Garcia said. “Our first six holes were quite complicated with rain and wind. Quite funny, this is probably where I played some of my best golf.”

It was Adam Scott, who his yooed about the portrait to shoot a long, talking about the difficulty in conditions of change during the round. This, of course, increases the level of difficulty, which should only be withdrawn as the week withdraws.

“It felt as if we were raining and we all played in the rain. It was sometimes complicated. But my golf was okay,” Scott said.

The port has its share of incorrect holes, but there are also a number of holes that can destroy the best in the world if caught in the blender.

The first was the 11th and 11th hole, which played as the most difficult hole during the round of Thursday’s opening with an average of 4.40.

Defense champion Xander Schauffle revealed that in the forefront when he hit his sweatshirt in the area of the locals on the right side of the road, he stretched and eventually left with Bogey after losing an 18-party par.

“Eleven comes to my mind, in the wind and rain, on the left to the right of that hole is a complicated,” Schauffle said. “You are trying to do my best to hit that free road. If you miss you. You’re hanging on your loving life.”

Schauffle was far from the only one who grabbed their hand with no. 11.

Rory Mcilroy, Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa and Hideki Matsuyama All made bogey. Brooks Koepka made double.

Then, of course, has the opening hole, which terrorized early groups.

McKibbin agreed to think about the opening of Mcilroy’s shoot in 2019, which sailed outside the borders and led to a large quadrilateral with a large square. The former played as the fifth most difficult hole and left wounds in Mcilroy, Thomas and Jason Day, among other things, in round 1. ”270th 270 in the first to the right and then 290 in the second to the left,” the day for number 1. It.

In a word … yes, complicated.