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The first round of the 2025 Open Championship saw Royal Portrush giving the 156-player field all it could handle as ever-changing weather conditions allowed the Northern Ireland course to show off its strength against the best players in the world. Ultimately, 31 players got into red figures in the first round, but the lead is just 4 under as no …

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Matt Fitzpatrick logs every shot he hits into a database. It doesn’t matter if it’s in a practice round or a tournament: the total yardage, end result, lie, wind direction, all of it. The 30-year-old Englishman has been collecting this data for 15 years. So when patterns start to emerge, Fitzpatrick can easily identify and diagnose …