Follow scores, text updates and BBC Radio 5 Live commentary from day one of the 154th Open at Royal Birkdale in Southport.

Computer chipmakers and other winners of the AI boom are slumping lower again and weighing on stock markets worldwide. Also raising the pressure Thursday were more rises for oil prices.

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