
Matthew Jordan has been playing golf at Royal Liverpool since the age of seven, now he will go down in history as having hit the opening tee shot of the 151st Open.
Two weeks ago the 27-year-old wasn’t even in The Open, then he shot 65-69 at nearby West Lancs. Then the R&A’s chief executive Martin Slumbers got in touch and he was first to hit off at 0635 on the Thursday of the game’s oldest Major.