62 IS THE NUMBER AT ROYAL BIRKDALE

New Zealander Ryan Fox is the latest member of the “lowest round in a major championship history club”, following Sam Burns and Lucas Herbert into the exclusive clubhouse after his stunning 62 in round three of The 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.

“I feel really good, to be honest. Being picky, I’d want a couple of drives back today maybe, but outside of that, I feel like I didn’t really miss a shot. Had a couple of great shots down the stretch, putted really nicely.

But it feels like, when you’re out in the morning, when the wind’s down around here, there’s almost some pressure on to shoot a score. It was nice, like Xander and I had a lot of fun out there today. Both made a bunch of birdies and kind of fed off each other.

I would have taken 62 on a Saturday, that’s for sure.”

Fox now joins Sam Burns in the final pairing in today’s final round and when asked how he approaches today….

”Just pick shots and try to hit them. Nothing changes game plan-wise. I think this golf course anyway kind of lends itself to being fluid, depending on — the wind’s swung around from all directions this morning when we played, it felt like.

You can’t say I’m going to hit 4-iron off this tee or I’m going to hit 2-iron off this tee or driver. It does change depending on wind direction.

I went in there with a pretty aggressive strategy the whole day and did the same thing yesterday and played pretty decently. So I’ll try to do the same thing tomorrow and see what happens.”

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