The Open 2026: day three golf updates from Royal Birkdale – live
️Updates from the third round at Royal Birkdale ️ Official leaderboard Mail Scott with your thoughts As for the actual golf, the big news this
️Updates from the third round at Royal Birkdale ️ Official leaderboard Mail Scott with your thoughts As for the actual golf, the big news this morning is the performance of Ryan Fox. The temperature has dropped a little – down to around the 20C mark and lower during the night – so there’s a bit more moisture in the air. That’s not made a jot of difference to the fairways, but it has made the greens a tad more receptive.
So there’s every chance of some very low scoring today, as yesterday. And the 39-year-old Kiwi, whose best finish at the Open was a tie for 16th in 2019, is on a burner. Birdies at 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8 sent him out in 29 strokes – one off the championship record (28) set by Denis Durnian here in 1983 – and he’s since added more birdies at 10, 14 and 16. Just the one bogey at 13, so with two holes to play, he’s on for a 63 if he pars home.
Fox, incidentally, is a past master at going on a tear-up at the Open: he’s already joint holder of the record for lowest back nine, 29 at Portrush in 2019, a score subsequently matched by Lee Westwood last year. Good afternoon, patrons, and with perfect timing, here comes Mark Darbon, the chief executive of the R&A, to have a word with Sky Sports
on that rules infraction. “We have a clear process … an unfortunate set of circumstances … from a rules perspective this was really clear cut … we communicated it to Bryson … we understand there’s some emotion around that … we can all empathise with it … but from a rules perspective this played out as we would hope it would.” Continue reading...
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