Preamble… and we’re back. Just over nine hours ago, the first day of the 154th edition of the Open Championship came to a close. Now we’re up and running again! Friday promises to be another monster trek, and we’ll be blogging about it ♫♪ all day looooooonng♫♪. Here’s how the very top of the leaderboard looked at the end of play last night …-5: Jackson Suber

-4: Im Sung-jae, Daniel Brown

-3: Thomas Detry, Robert MacIntyre, Francesco Molinari, Alex Smalley, Bryson DeChambeau, Ryan Gerard, MJ Daffue, Pierceson Coody, Cameron Young… and here are the tee times (BST). Off we go! It’s on!6.46 am: Eugenio Chacarra, Matt Wallace, Max Greyserman

6.57 am: Michael Brennan, Sahith Theegala, Laurie Canter

7.08 am: Cameron Smith, Keith Mitchell, Stuart Grehan (a)