“Total BS” – Fans divided as LIV Golfers fail to feature on The 151st Open Championship’s telecast for the second straight day

The 151st Open Championship saw another day of action where LIV Golfers were overlooked during the live broadcast.

Interestingly, Phil Mickelson, who has the most majors entering this event, and Brooks Koepka, who won this year's PGA Championship, were not featured during the television telecast's featured group. The Open Championship defending champion Cameron Smith was also snubbed.

NUCLR Golf shared the news on their Twitter handle, eliciting mixed reactions from fans online.

🚨#LIV BLACKOUT — LIV Golfers will NOT be featured for the second straight day, including defending #TheOpen Champion Cam Smith 👀

🦚 📺 Round 2 Featured Groups:
▪️McIlory - Rahm - Rose
▪️Morikawa - Homa - Hatton
▪️Spieth - Fitz - Day
▪️Scheffler - Fleetwood - Scott pic.twitter.com/FdvPczCZrr

Some fans criticized the bias against LIV golfers while others seemed indifferent to the omission.

"Total BS," a fan wrote.

@NUCLRGOLF Total BS

Here are some fan tweets reacting negatively to LIV players not getting a featured group spot:

@NUCLRGOLF How do they not show Brooks/Cantlay/Hideki? All -1

@NUCLRGOLF Minor issue for them. They have millions of reasons to not care.

@NUCLRGOLF I mean I guess yeah but then again only Brooks and Cam are remotely interesting.

@NUCLRGOLF Just wait till they are in the leading groups. Good luck blacking them out.

Some fans did not care about LIV Golfers not getting a featured group spot, understating the importance of being on the featured group during a full day of action. Here are some tweets:

@NUCLRGOLF It’s so petty it’s incredible TBH

@NUCLRGOLF Only the feature groups .
Plenty on the live coverage and YouTube highlights.

@NUCLRGOLF These are some stellar groups, why follow guys on an exhibition tour?

@NUCLRGOLF Thanks for the great news!

Amazing tee shot by Rory on the first. Far better than seeing Steptoe's double bogey, en route to +6

@NUCLRGOLF Why does this matter. It’s not the masters, the whole day is televised

Here are the four featured groups during the Open Championship and their tee times (All times in GMT/ET):

6:04 am/9:04 am - Jordan Spieth, Matt Fitzpatrick, Jason Day
6:48 am/9:48 am - Scottie Scheffler, Tommy Fleetwood, Adam Scott
1:58 pm/4:58 am - Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, and Justin Rose
2:09 pm/5:09 am - Collin Morikawa, Max Homa, and Tyrrell Hatton

Who are the LIV Golfers playing in the 151st Open Championship?

A total of 16 LIV golfers qualified for the 151st Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club.

Defending champion Cameron Smith, the 2023 PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka and multiple-time major winner Phil Mickelson are the top names on the list.

Here are the names of 16 LIV Golfers participating in the oldest major tournament:

Brooks Koepka
Cameron Smith
Phil Mickelson
Dustin Johnson
Abraham Ancer
Richard Bland
Laurie Canter
Bryson DeChambeau
Talor Gooch
Branden Grace
Joaquin Niemann
Louis Oosthuizen
Thomas Pieters
Patrick Reed
Charl Schwartzel
Henrik Stenson

Who is leading the 151st Open Championship leaderboard after round 1?

South African amateur golfer Christo Lamprecht, along with Tommy Fleetwood and Emiliano Grillo are leading the leaderboard after day one. The leaderboard is currently very crowded with multiple players tied on a single spot.

Here are the top 12 golfers on the 151st Open Championship leaderboard:

T1 - Christo Lamprecht (a)
T1 - Tommy Fleetwood
T1 - Emiliano Grillo
T4 - Antoine Rozner
T4 -Adrian Otaegui
T4 - Brian Harman
T7 - Stewart Cink
T7 - Wyndham Clark
T7 - Alex Noren
T7 - Max Homa
T7 - Shubhankar Sharma
T7 - Michael Stewart

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