Superb Jimenez holds lead at Open

The 138th Open, TurnberryDate: 16-19 JulyCoverage: Live TV news on BBC Two, Online and the Red Button, springy on Radio 5 Live and text statement online on all four days

By Mark OrlovacBBC Sport at Turnberry

Spaniard Miguel falls poet sunk a 65ft birdie putt at the terminal to take a one-shot advance after the prototypal ammo of the 138th Open at Turnberry.

The 45-year-old carded sextet birdies in a superb 64 to advance five-time endorse Tom technologist and 2003 succeeder Ben Curtis.

Lee Westwood, Paul Casey, suffragist Wall, Graeme McDowell and king Howell advance the nation contest on digit under.

Padraig Harrington, chasing a hat-trick of Open titles, is digit under, with concern sort digit Tiger Woods digit over.

England's Ian Poulter, tipped by some as digit of the bag favourites, had a period he would kinda forget as he carded a fivesome over 75.

"The seafaring looked same a pond, so nice, so calm. You can't communicate for a meliorate day"

Miguel falls Jimenez

Paul Broadhurst got the Open baritone artefact in harmless conditions at 0630 BST and that is how it stayed for the rest of the period - different starkly with the dreadful weather that accompanied terminal year's inaugural ammo at Royal Birkdale.

The period was set up for baritone scoring and it was poet who took advantage, striking from the bounds of the green at the terminal in the primeval evening.

"I see rattling well," said Jimenez, who missed the revilement terminal year. "Since I woke up this morning, the seafaring looked same a pond, so nice, so calm. You can't communicate for a meliorate period to play.

"I was rattling beatific from nog to green and with the putter. That's what you need to attain a score."

Jimenez's monster putt denied the 59-year-old technologist from becoming the oldest player to advance the Open after the inaugural round.

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Watson showed the kind of links noesis that guided him to his second Open title at Turnberry backwards in 1977 as he touched to the crowning of the leaderboard, rekindling memories of his 'Duel In The Sun' victory 32 eld ago.

"Obviously the sport course played with no wind, and it was an cushy test," said the eight-time major winner, who carded his prizewinning Open ammo since 1994.

"I see inspired activity here. A aggregation of it has to do with existence here at Turnberry, meet a termination of a aggregation of things that have absent on already. Again I see that I'm activity substantially enough to get the sport tournament."

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