The Open are on their way after a 30 minute delay because of heavy rain. Follow the scoring on the nifty scoring app here!

Maybe this is the initiative that brings Germany forward or let’s us discover some new golf talents. Well, actually it is a cooperation between Citibank, golf.de and Logical Golf. On http://www.schwungfuerdeutschland.de you can upload a video of your golf swing or have yourself filmed. Videos can be voted by the user (you can win iPod nanos or Callaway golf equipment). The 20 best-voted golfers win an exklusive training weekend in Mallorca. So whilst you are reading this, go ahead and vote for my video (#146).

The site also offers an online golf academy, when you register you have to fill out a short questionnaire, on that basis you’ll be sent four issues of the Citibank Online Golf Academy with tips on how to improve your game. We’ll see if that helps.

As you may have noticed I like reading the BBC’s golf coverage. Nice insights and good writing. But I didn’t know that they have visionary capabilites so that they can predict the outcome of todays first round of The Open.

Apparently they have, because they were able to publish the leaderboard of the tournament Wednesday afternoon:

Even more surprinsing that they even had the clubhouse scores from day 1:

So if you want to bet on the outcome of the tournament, consult BBC’s website first!

John Daly follows in the Beatles’ footsteps and Hoylake just gets hotter and hotter.