Harrington starts Open defence

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Harrington injured his right wrist on Saturday and put his chances of teeing off at 75% and only 50-50 to get through the championship, but was on the first tee as scheduled at 7:58am.

The Ryder Cup star received a loud cheer as his name was announced but faced an immediate test of his injury after slicing his opening tee shot into the right-hand rough.

By then play had already been under way for an hour and a half, and it had taken an hour for the first birdie of the week to be registered as the players struggled in the wind and intermittent rain.

Australian Craig Parry struck the opening shot at 6:30am but it was playing partner Lucas Glover who carded the first birdie, the American making a two on the par-three fourth, and then picking up another shot on the next to get back to level par after two early bogeys.

Justin Rose, fourth here as a 17-year-old amateur 10 years ago but now ninth in the world and European number one in 2007, started with a par four but was upstaged by playing partner Tom Watson.

Watson, 58, a five-time Open champion, birdied the 450-yard par four to move into the outright lead on one under.