2009 Open Championship: Leaderboard Update

Tiger Woods will actually have a challenging opponent at the 2009 British Open,  Defending champ  Padraig Harrington  who started with a solid 69 yesterday. (AP Images)"]

The weather is back.

Things returned to normal early this morning as Ben Curtis (+1600) bogeyed six holes on the front side to plummet off the leaderboard and first-round leader Miguel Angel Jimenez (+1600) got off to a shaky start as well as Turnberry showed its teeth.

Tom Watson (+10000) and Tiger Woods (+500) will be at the center of attention this afternoon.

Watson would be the oldest major champion in golf history by more than a decade if he could somehow keep it going for another three rounds.

Woods, on the other hand, came into this week as an overwhelming favorite but is facing the largest 18-hole deficit of his Open career. He knew he should have been at least two or three strokes better on Thursday, when a staggering 50 players broke par and another 17 matched it.

Defending champ Padraig Harrington (+2500) started with a solid 69 yesterday.

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