"Given the forecast coming in, I thought you really needed to be in the red", said Spieth, a two-time major victor.
"I think for all of us, I mean, regardless of your age, if you're in this field you have a dream to win the title", he said. This course has a lot of crosswinds, so it's tough to judge how far the ball is going to fly depending on what shot you play. He has missed time because of a rib injury this year but is a four-time major champion.
"And we felt that was just unsafe", Slumbers said.
"I was disappointed early in the round not to make more of it".
Royal Birkdale, which borders the Irish Sea north of Liverpool, is known as one of the world's great links courses, possibly the "best" course on the Open rotation, according to McIlroy.
"It's so easy to feel like you've disappointed them a little bit when I played the way I did, but I will try my hardest tomorrow", he said. "When I play like that, I don't care who plays like that, they're disappointed".
"I don't mind working on my birthday", said Casey. Fowler is probably the best player to never win a major now that Sergio Garcia (+1800), who has traditionally played well at this event, has a green jacket from the Masters.
Koepka avoided mistakes early in his round, with one birdie on a bogey-free first nine holes for an outward score of 33.
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"When you feel like you're playing well and you get the wrong side of the draw and you feel like the best you can finish is 10th, it's a bitter pill to swallow", Rory McIlroy said Wednesday.
"Really good start. Everything was strong", Spieth said. "I think you go down this entire list of players, I think everyone thinks, if I put the week together, it could be me at the end of the week holding the trophy". He has massive work to do to earn his European Tour card for 2018, so appearing at the Open via Final Qualifying at Royal Cinque Ports, where he secured one of three places, is a real bonus. I hope he gets fit. "And he kind of ended up being nearly as a father figure to me in the States, which is very nice, because my parents were all the way in Spain".
This year's championship tees off on Thursday at Royal Birkdale in the town of Southport, north-west England, with Woods again absent.
If you're unsure of what to call this week's major golf tournament, that's ok - some of the game's top broadcasters aren't entirely clear on the matter either.
AN INNOCENT question from Jason Day's caddie Col Swatton has seen British Open officials introduce a local rule change in the interest of fan and player safety.
" ... If I start playing four or five weeks in a row, everything just seems to get nonchalant".
The Claret Jug is there for the taking.
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