A day of ugly Open weather created a beautiful Sunday setup: 12 players within four shots of Billy Horschel's lead, including 2024 major-winners Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele.
TROON, Scotland — Winter paid a brief visit to the West Coast of Scotland on Saturday afternoon and stayed just long enough to cause various wipeouts and crashes along the shores of Troon, making a mess of the leaderboard and setting up a potentially fun final day at the British Open.
Sam Burns also shot 65, and he played 15 groups in front of the leaders. They played in far easier conditions and took advantage. Scheffler needed a 3-wood off the tee at the par-3 17th which measured 238 yards. Both Lowry and Brown hit drivers. Scheffler said he needed driver, 3-wood to reach the 502-yard par-4 15th. And he came up short.
“That was super tough,’’ said Rose, who like Brown, had to go through Final Qualifying to make it into the field. “Wasn't really expecting it, if I'm honest. I think I talked the first couple days about how well I was prepared for that southerly wind. I saw it coming. I practiced with that in mind. Today I did not expect that. I kind of saw it was going to be a southwest, maybe a little westerly, a little bit of rain in the afternoon.
He later learned that the lofts on his irons were wrong, and it took him awhile to sort through the issues. He wasn’t in this year’s Masters field. A tie for eighth at the PGA Championship was just his second top-10 in a major, the other being a tie for fourth at the 2013 U.S. Open. Horschel started his round at 2 under and played th first nine holes with four birdies to shoot 32. He got a share of the lead when Lowry made a double bogey 6 at the postage stamp, the par-3 eighth, where he found one of the dreaded bunkers.
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