It’s the final Major of the year as the world’s best golfers bid for the Open Championship at Royal Troon.
You can follow all the action right here over the next few days.
Irish in action:
Shane Lowry -3 (14)
Pádraig Harrington +3 (71)
Tom McKibbin +9 (77)
Darren Clarke +11 (76)
He’s still very much in the hunt there.
He plays another perfect chip to seventeen, getting himself out of a sticky situation to save par. Justin Rose looks set to drop a shot on the same hole after his bunker shot came out a bit hot.
Lowry got that par putt, and he’s now on the seventeenth tee.
Brown is still foot perfect, and he storms into the lead with another brilliant birdie bringing him to -6. That’s two in his last five holes as he continues to impress in his first ever major appearance. His ball-striking has been sublime, creating lots of chances for himself.
He’s a long way back, with a forty five footer coming up for birdie on sixteen.
Billy Horschel and Daniel Brown are both hanging tough at the top with Justin Rose just behind.
Scottie Scheffler isn’t out of this either. He’s after nailing a dart to the par three 17th for a tap-in birdie that will take him to -2.
Shane Lowry is again in bother. Nothing is going for him at the minute and he’s in the thick stuff on the par five 16th.
But his par-save misses on the left and there goes another shot. -8 standing on the 8th tee, it’s been a bruising hour and a half for the Offaly man who is now back to -2, with a double and four bogeys in his last eight holes.
His second shot comes up well short on fifteen, shooting into a bunker about twenty five yards short of the green. His bunker shot also comes up short, and from twenty five feet, he looks to be staring another bogey in the face.
Incredibly, he’s only made three bogeys this week with a number of brilliant saves over the three rounds.
It’s a full-on battle out there at this stage with pars almost feeling like birdies. Birdies are so few and far between at this stage and it’s all about damage limitation.
He misses yet another putt. They’re just not dropping for him today and he drops to -3, and he’s +4 for his round.
He’s still in this just two back from the lead but he needs to find something.
Nothing is coming easy for him here as he leaves his birdie putt four/five foot short. Another big par save coming up for him. Meanwhile, Daniel Brown gets another stroke of luck as his ball finds a nice lie wide and left but once again, he takes advantage. He plays a beautiful chip stone dead.
Shane Lowry finds the edge of the green on the par three fourteenth as his playing partner Daniel Brown hits wide and left. ‘Come on Offaly’ is the shout from the crowd.
He could be about to drop back to -5.
Even the world’s best are struggling, Scottie Scheffler drops a shot on 13 to go back to -2.
He strikes a long-iron well but it’s still well short on this monster of a par four, that’s playing even longer in the conditions. 45 foot for birdie.
Billy Horschel makes a big par save to stay on -5.