The Open 2025: Final Round Updates From Royal Portrush – Live

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Maverick McNealy is nan hottest spot retired connected nan people correct now. He’s 5 nether for his round, having followed up eagle astatine 2 pinch birdies astatine 3, 9, 10, 13 and 14. Bogeys astatine 4 and 7 intelligibly didn’t derail his momentum. The 29-year-old Californian is yet opening to present connected each nan early hype, and he’s -6 overall.

Lowry shoots 66

Low scoring, then. Well, yeah! The large communicative of nan greeting was Shane Lowry, who six years agone did what Scottie Scheffler is apt to do today: amble astir Portrush pinch nan Claret Jug arsenic bully arsenic already pocketed. Lowry’s gone retired successful style, successful much ways than one: he went retired successful 32 strokes, and past astir holed retired from nan bottommost of nan large swale to nan near of 18. Inches distant from a sensational valedictory blow. A 66 to bid farewell, and he ends nan week astatine -2. Not what he was dreaming of, but nan 2019 champion golfer will ever person … er … Portrush.

Rain and imaginable thunderstorms were forecast for Sunday astatine nan commencement of nan week. But while nan forecasters person sewage astir things spot on, this telephone was measurement wide of nan mark. It’s sunny and hot! Low scores ahoy! Not excessively overmuch successful nan measurement of wind, either, though gusts whitethorn prime up a small later successful nan afternoon. The forecasters weren’t that acold wide of nan people though: those showers and thunderstorms whitethorn heave into position successful nan evening, but by past everything astir apt will beryllium done and dusted. A glorious Open Sunday!

Preamble

Let’s not put excessively good a constituent connected it: nan 153rd Open Championship is Scottie Scheffler’s to lose, and nan last information astatine Portrush will astir apt go a procession. Bigger 54-hole leads person been mislaid successful nan past … but Scheffler is of a different stripe to mediocre aged Jean Van de Velde, who went into nan last information astatine Carnoustie successful 1999 5 clear and truthful afloat of hope. It’s not wholly beyond nan realms that 1 of nan chasing battalion could overhaul nan leader’s four-stroke advantage, but that’d surely return a cleanable large wind of a information successful nan mid-to-low 60s while nan world number 1 suffers a bid of absurdly bad bounces and/or an incomprehensible implosion. Having said each that, this is golf, so.

Here’s really nan apical of nan leaderboard looked aft nan 3rd information …

-14: Scheffler
-10: Li
-9: Fitzpatrick
-8: McIlroy, Gotterup, English, Hatton
-7: Schauffele
-6: Henley, N Højgaard, MacIntyre, R Højgaard, Harman
-5: Clark, Wallace, Lindell, Reitan, Åberg, Rose, Hall, Westwood

… and here’s today’s tee expanse (all times BST, GB&I unless stated). It’s on!

0830 Matti Schmid, Riki Kawamoto
0840 Dean Burmester, Phil Mickelson
0850 Sebastian Soderberg, Andrew Novak
0900 Shane Lowry, Jacob Skov Olesen
0910 Antoine Rozner, Viktor Hovland
0920 Adrien Saddier, Ryggs Johnston
0930 Romain Langasque, Jordan Spieth
0940 Francesco Molinari, Matthew Jordan
0955 Sergio Garcia, Justin Leonard
1005 Thomas Detry, Sepp Straka
1015 Aaron Rai, Jason Kokrak
1025 Daniel Berger, Jhonattan Vegas
1035 Maverick McNealy, Henrik Stenson
1045 Takumi Kanaya, Jordan Smith
1055 Sam Burns, Rickie Fowler
1110 Akshay Bhatia, Jon Rahm
1120 Jesper Svensson, Thriston Lawrence
1130 Bryson DeChambeau, Nathan Kimsey
1140 Hideki Matsuyama, Tony Finau
1150 Justin Thomas, Tommy Fleetwood
1200 JJ Spaun, John Parry
1210 Keegan Bradley, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
1225 Marc Leishman, Lucas Glover
1235 Sungjae Im, Dustin Johnson
1245 Corey Conners, Lee Westwood
1255 Harry Hall, Justin Rose
1305 Ludvig Åberg, Kristoffer Reitan
1315 Oliver Lindell, Matt Wallace
1325 Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman
1340 Rasmus Højgaard, Robert MacIntyre
1350 Nicolai Højgaard, Russell Henley
1400 Xander Schauffele, Tyrrell Hatton
1410 Harris English, Chris Gotterup
1420 Rory McIlroy, Matt Fitzpatrick
1430 Haotong Li, Scottie Scheffler