Summary

  • Rory McIlroy moves to -12 and leads Dustin Johnson by four

  • Sergio Garcia, Francesco Molinari, Ryan Moore, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel and Rickie Fowler -6

  • Tiger Woods birdies the last to finish +2 and right on the cut mark

  • Marc Warren -5; Adam Scott -3; Justin Rose -2; Phil Mickelson level

  • Players to miss the cut at +2: Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter Bubba Watson

Live Reporting

Ben Dirs, Andy Cryer and Luke Reddy

  1. New shape has swing impact

    Darren ClarkeGetty Images

    We couldn't help but notice Darren Clarke's hefty weight loss.

    A whopping four stone by his calculation has dropped off as a result of a five-time-a-week gym habit and you can see the difference between 2006 (pictured left) and this week.

    "The only source of frustration is that the golf ball hasn't yet realised all the work I've been doing," he tells the Telegraph. "My timing has been off, obviously because I've lost all that weight and what have you and my swing has to compensate."

    Clarke, champion in 2011, is even par.

  2. Woods makes double-bogey at the first

    Manassero birdies four and is back to five under, one off the lead. The Italians are going nowhere. Fowler with a peach of an approach at three, should be a birdie from a few feet. Shot gone for Koepka at the par-four seventh, he's back to -4. Back to Woods on one... his bogey putt lips out, Woods tumbles back to -1...

  3. Molinari ties for the lead on six under

    Stenson fires his second right at the pin, he'll have a 10-footer for birdie. Scott made birdie on 17, the world number one is back to two under. Francesco Molinari pours in a birdie putt on the fifth, ties the lead with McIlroy on six under. Woods making a right hash of the first, his third ends up in more nonsense on the other side of the green - needs to pop this in for par... races it 15 feet by, could be two shots gone...

  4. Get involved

    Ger Brady: A storm is brewing for Hoylake if that wind is easterly! I left Dublin this morning and am travelling across the Irish Sea!

    A Bowker: Well I was going out but have been caught up in the golf for the last two hours, mainly because it looks like I'm playing. What fairway?!

    Paolo Brand: What a moment from Sergio Garcia. A peach of a hole out.

  5. Sweden's Karlsson gets a shot back at the 10th, he's now three under. Rose finds a green-side bunker at 17, here's Woods out of some deep stuff at the first... goes at it like a man attempting to fell an oak with an axe, and his ball squirts into more trouble back-right...

  6. Time for Tiger

    Tiger WoodsBBC Sport

  7. Tiger Woods is away and he's double-crossed his tee shot, which ends up way left. Cabrera gives it some serious humpty, that's high and handsome and central. Stenson, the world number two, follows him down there...

  8. 'Character-building' 26 over par

    Bryden MacphersonAFP

    Bryden Macpherson is confident he will not suffer the same fate as fellow Australian Ian Baker-Finch after finally completing his Open nightmare.

    The 23-year-old Australian, whose first-day 90 at Hoylake was the worst Open round for 15 years, bowed out of the competition after shooting 80 to finish on 26 over par.

    "I think a fellow Australian, Ian Baker-Finch did a similar thing, first round in '97, and that triggered his retirement. Now, he'd already won a British Open. It would be a little weird for me to retire, I think.

    "I think it's just character-building, that's all it is. If you see it as anything more or anything less, then you're looking at it the wrong way."

  9. Rob Hodgetts
    BBC Sport at Hoylake

    "All in black, flanked by two white-shirted stormtroopers, Tiger Woods sweeps Dart Vader-style from his courtesy car to the putting green beside the clubhouse. Very serious faces on all. The electricity crackles around the expectant crowd gathered by green. His Lordship's presence is strong."

  10. Eagle for Garcia on two, ties for second

    Tiger Woods makes his way to the first tee, he and Angel Cabrera dressed all in black today, Henrik Stenson making up the threesome. Fowler having to hack out at two, back onto the fairway, Donald comes up just short. Garcia into the green... NAILED IT! Eagle for the Spaniard, back to five under and a tie for second. "Same hole as 2006!" says a beaming Garcia, and he did indeed hole a nine iron on this hole eight years ago. Lovely stuff.

  11. Frank Nobilo
    Former European Tour golfer on BBC analyst

    "Phil Mickelson has struggled all year with his game and what a time to find it again. It could be a real tussle over the next couple of days."

  12. Defending champion Mickelson for birdie at the last, after hoicking his second head-high into the stands, and he's nailed one at last. Mickelson left a lot of shots out there today but he never stops battling and is still in the mixer at level overall, six off the current lead.

  13. Shot gone for Garcia at the first, the Spaniard back to -3. Tom Watson, however, made a birdie and is back to level. World number one Scott for birdie on 17... rams it home from 20 feet, he's back to -2. Rose for a bird, from a similar range... leaves it short...

  14. Koepka ties for second on five under

    Here's Garcia playing out of the rough on 18 and he's found the front of the green - the first green, that is. Fowler races his second up to the pin and it ricochets past 15 or so feet. Unlucky. Brooks Koepka chips to within a couple of feet at the par-five fifth and pops in for five under and a share of second. The 24-year-old has never won on the PGA Tour.

  15. Scott Drummond
    BBC Sport on-the-course reporter

    "I'm off with Sergio Garcia, Luke Donald and Rickie Fowler now. I was with them yesterday morning and it was fantastic. Garcia is great in the wind, but I'm not sure how well Fowler will fare in these blustery tricky conditions. Either way it's a brilliant group.

    "The best bit of advice I was given for my first ever Open as on course reporter last year was: 'If you have nothing to say, just say nothing'. And I always try and follow that rule!"

  16. Birdies for Clarke and Watson

    Two former Open champions start round two beautifully. Tom Watson, from the fringe of the green sends a rocket of a putt into the cup - it rattled home. Follow that Darren Clarke - he does, with a cool stroke from 10 feet. Birdies for both.

    Clarke is one under, Watson level for his 19 holes so far.

  17. Scott Drummond
    BBC Sport on-the-course reporter

    Martin KaymerGetty Images

    "This morning I followed Martin Kaymer, Zach Johnson and Jason Day. The breeze was gusty and it was making things tricky. Kaymer started like a train and we thought he was on for a very special round but the wheels came off. It showed even if you were playing as well as Kaymer was the breeze was still enough to induce double or triple bogeys at the drop of a hat."

    Kaymer double-bogeyed the seventh in a par-72 and remains +1 at the halfway point

  18. Molinari moves to five under

    Francesco Molinari bogeyed the first, birdied the second and has now bent in an eight-footer for birdie at the third - the Italian back to -5 and a share of second. Dufner has left himself a tap-in birdie on 16, will get to -1. Kaymer in with a level-par 72, including birdies at 16 and 18, and the US Open champion is one over for the week. Birdie at the first for Old Tom Watson, he's back to level.

  19. Leaderboard

    LeaderboardBBC Sport

    Selected others:-3: Tiger Woods (US), Rickie Fowler (US); -2: Stephen Gallagher (Sco), Adam Scott (Aus).

    -1: Charl Schwartzel (SA), Jordan Spieth (US), Justin Rose (Eng); Par: Darren Clarke (NI), Jason Dufner (US), Shane Lowry (Ire); +1: Phil Mickelson (US), Ian Poulter (Eng), Luke Donald (Eng).

    Selected tee times (BST): 14:05: Tiger Woods (US), Henrik Stenson (Swe); 14:27: Rory McIlroy (NI); 14:38: Ian Poulter (Eng); 14:49: Graeme McDowell (NI)

    Official Open leaderboard; Clubhouse scores; Tee times

  20. Luke Donald on the first, opening up with an errant drive, before Rickie Fowler piles into his tee shot, sending it straight down the centre. Here's Sergio, also going with driver, and snap-hooking it straight down the 18th...