Ayrshire, Scotland (My Sportsbook) - Damp and breezy conditions early Friday sent scores soaring at the 138th British Open Championship.

First-round leader Miguel Angel Jimenez coughed up four strokes in a five-hole span to tumble to two-under par for the championship. He did recover one of those lost strokes with a birdie on the par-four eighth.

Jimenez had owned his first lead after any round at a major in his career.

The Spaniard was one of many who struggled early on Friday as the weather turned for the worse as some had predicted.

"The wind is supposed to blow a little bit more [Friday] and blow a little bit on Saturday and get stronger on Sunday, so she's going to bare her teeth a little bit," five-time British Open champion Tom Watson said of Turnberry after his round Thursday.

The three major champions from the 2003 season that are in the field are all struggling.

Ben Curtis, who won the British Open that year, entered the second round tied for second. Now, he is in serious danger of missing the cut.

Curtis opened with a birdie to join Jimenez in the lead at minus-six, but bogeyed six of his next seven holes to tumble to even-par for the championship.

He dropped further down the leaderboard with a double-bogey on the ninth and a bogey on the 10th. Curtis stopped the bleeding with a birdie on the par-four 12th.

However, he faltered to a double-bogey on the 13th to fall to plus-nine for his round and four-over par for the championship, where he is in danger of missing the cut.

Jim Furyk, the 2003 U.S. Open champion, had a steady start with four straight pars. But, he dropped three strokes over his next two holes to fall to even- par for the championship.

Weir, who is playing alongside Curtis, dropped three shots in a four-hole stretch from the third. He then stumbled to a triple-bogey on the par-five seventh to tumble to plus-three overall.

The Canadian dropped another stroke on No. 8, a hole that he also bogeyed on Thursday. Weir coughed up two more strokes around the turn with bogeys on 10 and 11 to slide to nine-over for the day and plus-six for the championship.

Two-time defending champion Padraig Harrington is one-over through seven holes with six pars and a lone bogey.

Three-time champion Tiger Woods does not tee off until 9:20 a.m. (et).