It never ceases to amaze me how much the weather can change on a given day at Carnoustie.

I spoke to the Met Office at lunch time on Friday and they confirmed that the wind would remain similar in the afternoon but with gusts of up to 22 mph.

In fact the sun can out and the wind died down entirely for short periods before getting up again.

Last night, the Saturday forecast was for very tough conditions with winds upto 25 mph.

This morning the forecast has been revised to a gentle breeze, by Carnoustie standards, at 12-13 mph with gusts upto 17mph dying down a little as the day goes on. It is expected to be a wet day.

Yet when Won Joon Lee and Mark Foster teed off at 8.30am there was not a breath of wind and all seems calm at Carnoustie.

Check back for another update just before the leaders go out at 2.30pm.

Overnight rain has once again softened the course and it will continue to play very long much to the dismay of the likes of Paul McGinley.

With very little rough to protect the course from low scores, as a reaction to the debacle of 1999, the R&A have placed the pins is some very tough locations.

On Friday, 14 pins were less than 25 feet from the edge of the green and many hidden just over the bunkers.

As a result only 16 players shot under par with Mike Weir scoring a best round 68

The pins placements will not be quite as tough today but we are unlikely to any really low scores.

Below are the hole averages for the first two rounds:

Lee Westwood holed out from the fairway at the 15th in round one but otherwise there have been only 18 birdies and 122 bogeys or worse and it continues to be a severe test.

The 16th and 17th have yielded 33 birdies and only cost the field 14 double bogeys. They have not proved to be the disaster holes everyone expected.

The eighteenth is another story with more bogeys and worse than pars and birdies. Into the wind par on this brutal finishing hole is akin to picking up two shots on the field.