Day-two coverage continues from the Royal Birkdale Club in Southport. The event has been dominated by players from the United States for the past three years with victories by John Daly in 1995, Tom Lehman in 1996 and Justin Leonard last year. In fact, over the past decade, the sole European player to have held aloft the famous claret jug has been Britain's Nick Faldo , who triumphed in 1990 at St Andrews and 1992 at Muirfield, although Colin Montgomerie and Lee Westwood wi bolster domestic hopes. All the competitors will be mindful of the looming halfway cut, which will eliminate all but the top 75 players for the remaining two rounds.

Introduced by Steve Rider, with commentary by Peter Alliss, Alex Hay, Mike Hughesdon, Beverly Lewis, Gary Wolstenholme and Dougie Donnelly.

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