The Open 2025 Live: Second round leaderboard, latest scores, tee times and highlights from Royal Portrush

Hatton -6 (13)

Tyrrell Hatton goes pin-seeking at the 13th. 

From 200 yards, the Englishman fires a dart and his golf ball eventually settles to around six feet. 

He confidently strokes home the birdie putt and is now one off the lead. 

Fleetwood -2, McIlroy -1, Thomas E (10)

McIlroy has an outside look a birdie at the 10th and it's on a decent line, but it comes up short. 

Fleetwood saves par from a tricky position. 

English -5 (9)

Harris English keeps his clean card going with a nerveless six-foot putt for par at the 9th. 

Rose E (11)

Tough scenes for the Englishman at the 11th, who drops three strokes and tumbles way down the leaderboard. 

Rose paid the ultimate price for losing his tee shot in the bushes. 

Hojgaard -4 (16*)

Rasmus Hojgaard is entering the closing stages of his round. 

The Dane has work to do to save his par at the 16th to remain tied for third. 

Hojgaard missed the green and a deft chip settles around 10 feet from the hole. 

Harman -6 (11), Højgaard -5 (14)

Brian Harman is your solo leader for the first time, as Rasmus Højgaard bogeys 14 to leave the American clear at the front.

Rory, still sitting 1-under at 9, prangs yet another drive well left into the fescue—his ball ricocheting off a fan along the way.

As things stand, any final score 2-over or above will see you through to the weekend, with plenty of big names in contention.

There are plenty of high-profile players in trouble as well, though. Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott are just a few that will be heading home early if they don't start making serious moves.

Harman -6 (10)

An American is once again on top of the leaderboard, as Brian Harman birdies 9 to join Højgaard at 6-under.

He follows this up with a neat scramble for par at 11.

Højgaard -6 (14)

Wow, Højgaard absolutely drains it.

The world number 72 is 6-under now, the lowest score of the tournament so far, and has the outright lead. Still plenty of golf to be played, but he'll almost certainly be around for the weekend.

Hatton -5 (9), R Højgaard -5 (12)

Say what you want about Tyrrell's mental approach—he's playing some great golf right now. The 9th fairway is just the second he's hit today, but he's only missed one green in regulation. 

He's finally rewarded with a birdie at the turn and jumps into a share of the lead—as does Rasmus Højgaard, who birdies 12 and puts himself in a great position to grab the outright lead at 13. Stay tuned.

Hatton -4 (7)

In typical Hatton fashion, Tyrrell is hanging within touching distance of the lead, and looking extremely angry doing so.

After missing a gettable birdie at 7, he sends his approach well past the flag on the 8th, mopping up with a two-putt for par—cursing himself, the course, and everything around him the whole way.

McIlroy -1 (5)

The 5th presents more problems for Rory. He hooks his drive left into the fairway bunker, landing on the second shelf of the green with his escape. Cue the wedge.

Sadly he's unable to get up and down in two, and slips back to 1-under.

Harman -5 (7)

Brian Harman is always a fixture in contention at The Open, and sure enough, the 2023 Champion is in the joint lead. He gets up and down from the bunker at 7 to leave himself a four-footer for birdie.

Harman and English very briefly share the lead, however English drops a shot at the 4th to leave Harman on his own at the top of the leaderboard.

McIlroy -2 (4), Hatton -4 (6)

A far more confident showing at the 4th for McIlroy. Not only does he actually find the fairway with his tee shot, he puts his follow-up pitch to within seven feet, and drains the birdie putt.

Hatton, also bounces back with a birdie on the 6th. He's once again within a shot of the lead.

McIlroy 1 (3), Hatton -3 (5)

In the space of three holes, McIlroy suddenly finds himself dead even with Tommy Fleetwood—who started the day four shots behind him. He's forced to take a diabolical chip from next to the bunker at 3rd, swinging with his hands halfway down the club and his feet in the sand. He's unable to save par.

A few holes ahead, Tyrrell Hatton also drops a shot at 5 to fall two shots away from the lead.

English -5 (2)

He very briefly held it yesterday, but once again Harris English has the outright lead.

The American has been flawless so far, and makes his birdie putt look easy to move 5-under and set a new benchmark for the rest of the field to chase.

Meanwhile, it's three birdies in a row for Tommy Fleetwood to open his day! He's now at 1-under and right back in the thick of things.

Fleetwood E, McIlroy -2, Thomas E (2)

Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Thomas both struggled somewhat in the background of Rory's grouping yesterday, ending the day well away from the leading places.

They've started today with huge fight, however. Fleetwood birdies the 2nd for his second in a row, while Thomas sinks a nice putt just after to also move even par.

McIlroy, meanwhile, somehow cleans up from that horrible lie for par.

Aberg E, Hovland -1, Spieth E (3)

The trio of Jordan Spieth, Ludwig Aberg and Viktor Hovland slogged their way around yesterday with varying degrees of success, but they've started today in white-hot fashion.

After all scoring birdies at 2, they repeat the feat at the 3rd. All are now even par or better.

Fowler -2

I said yesterday how much I'd personally enjoy the prospect of a serious Rickie Fowler Open run, and for now he remains right up there. He hits one of the shots of the day so far to leave himself a three-foot birdie putt at the13th and move 2-under.

He's now one of 35 players within two shots of the lead. The real question is who's going to stage a breakaway.

Rose -3 (3)

After coming agonisingly close to birdie on the scoreable second, Justin Rose follows up nicely with a long putt for birdie on the 3rd.

Meanwhile, Rory sends yet another drive askew, his ball coming to rest in the extremely thick stuff just a few feet in-bounds. He's forced to declare an unplayable lie. That's two fairways he's hit so far this week out of a possible 16. Insane.

Hatton -3 (3), McIlroy -2, Fleetwood +1 (1)

A strong start for the local favourites here this morning.

Tyrrell Hatton, who looks in fine fettle this morning, sinks a short putt at the 3rd for birdie to go four-under and join the share of the lead.

A couple of holes behind, McIlroy drains a 15-footer to birdie the 1st. Fleetwood joins him in Birdietown directly after. Both now approach the par 5 second, which presented a lot of eagle opportunities yesterday.

McIlroy -1, Fleetwood +2, Thomas +1

Rory McIlroy emerges back onto the tee to rapturous applause, having endured an up-and-down round on the way to a 1-under scorecard yesterday.

He opens his day with what's becoming a bit of a bugbear for him this tournament: a squirty low draw that misses the fairway to the left.

It rests in the first cut and is by no means disastrous, but he's going to have to start finding some fairways to remain in contention.

DeChambeau +7 (1)

We've just published a story on the ultra-straight, illegal ball Bryson had in the practice bag on Wednesday. 

It probably would have done him some good yesterday as he laboured to a +7 78, already basically putting him out of contention for the Claret Jug.

He makes a steadier start this morning, however, opening his second round with a routine par.

Harman -3 (1)

Harman has just popped in a birdie on the par-4 1st to move to 3-under par. 

The lefty is looking to win a second Open title in the last three years having won at Royal Liverpool in 2023. 

Harman is also looking to put in a big performance this week in order to boost his Ryder Cup hopes.