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Louis Oosthuizen sat atop the British Open leaderboard after Round 1 and Jordan Spieth sat at a close second after leading for a bit. Spieth is now the favorite at +450 while Oosthuizen was coming in at 5-1.
Spieth opened the tournament with a 5-under-par 65. Coming in he worried about the extended amount of time he took off ahead of the tournament.
"That was kind of my one concern, I think, coming in here,'' Spieth said after making six birdies and a bogey to trail clubhouse leader Louis Oosthuizen by 1 stroke. "I felt pretty good about the work that I had done over the last, say, week and a half or so. But when you haven't played for a little while, you come into a difficult track, you can have a bit of rust early, and I was a little bit concerned about that.
"I think midway through the front nine today, kind of turning under par was just big to feel like, 'Hey, we're in the thick of things.' There's just a little extra nerves when you're not coming off the week before, just getting started. [I] hit some really good shots early in the round today, which I think was important."
Odds To Win The Open (after rd1)
Jordan Spieth+450
Louis Oosthuizen+500
Collin Morikawa+1600
Webb Simpson+1800
Brooks Koepka+2000
Dustin Johnson+2000
Tommy Fleetwood+2000
Brian Harman+2200
Scottie Scheffler+2500
Viktor Hovland+2500
Stewart Cink+2800
Xander Schauffele+2800
Justin Rose+3000
Jon Rahm+3500
Paul Casey+3500
Rory McIlroy+3500
Sergio Garcia+6000
Christiaan Bezuidenhout+7000
Danny Willett+7000
Dylan Frittelli+7000
Mackenzie Hughes+7000
Rickie Fowler+7500
Abraham Ancer+8000
Andy Sullivan+8000
Cameron Smith+8000
Corey Conners+8000
Francesco Molinari+10000
Joaquin Niemann+10000
Justin Harding+10000
Will Zalatoris+10000
Benjamin Hebert+12500
Bryson DeChambeau+12500
Justin Thomas+12500
Shane Lowry+12500
Tony Finau+12500
Byeong-Hun An+15000
Daniel Berger+15000
Guido Migliozzi+15000
Matthew Fitzpatrick+15000
Ryan Fox+15000
Patrick Reed+17500
Tyrrell Hatton+17500
Brandt Snedeker+20000
Chris Kirk+20000
Jack Senior+20000
Jason Kokrak+20000
Lee Westwood+20000
Lucas Herbert+20000
Cameron Tringale+25000
Erik Van Rooyen+25000
Keith Mitchell+25000
- Tyrone Black, Gambling911.com
