The weekend at the 2025 British Open will be a feast for viewers, with 10 straight hours each day on the NBC family of networks.

The British Open on Thursday at Royal Portrush ended with a five-way tie atop the leaderboard. Here are highlights and scores from the first round.

Harman won the 2023 Open and is contending again at Royal Portrush, but his introduction to links golf was rocky, at best.

Shane Lowry unleashing F-bomb rants during golf tournaments is certainly nothing new. He did it at this year's PGA Championship. He did it at last year's British Open. He, well, you get the point. But what happened on Friday was still a bit shocking from the Irishman.

The "Golden Bear" and 18-time major winner won the first of his three Opens and completed the first of his three career grand slams along the southeastern Scottish coast in 1966, then called the par-71 layout "the best golf course in Britain."

SportsLine's golf model ran 10,000 simulations of the final two rounds of the British Open 2025 at Royal Portrush

As it circled over their heads, Hicks did his best to thwart it, flailing his hands around and laughing it off. Kisner, meanwhile, sunk deep into his chair. Then he took his sport coat and hid underneath it. Just as we all would:

The Claret Jug is one of golf's most famous artifacts, and it continues to captivate the masses more than a century after its creation.