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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureNone of the amateurs made the cut this year, so nobody will be awarded the Silver Medal. For the record, the best-performing amateurs this year were Cameron Adam, a 22-year-old from Fife, and Ethan Fang, a 20-year-old Texan who won the Amateur Championship this year and of whom big things are expected. Both finished their week at +3, a couple of shots shy of weekend survival.ShareMaverick McNealy is the hottest property out on the course right now. He’s five under for his round, having followed up eagle at 2 with birdies at 3, 9, 10, 13 and 14. Bogeys at 4 and 7 clearly didn’t derail his momentum. The 29-year-old Californian is finally beginning to deliver on all the early hype, and he’s -6 overall.ShareLowry shoots 66Low scoring, then. Well, yeah! The big story of the morning was Shane Lowry, who six years ago did what Scottie Scheffler is likely to do today: amble around Portrush with the Claret Jug as good as already pocketed. Lowry’s gone out in style, in more ways than one: he went out in 32 strokes, and then nearly holed out from the bottom of the big swale to the left of 18. Inches away from a sensational valedictory blow. A 66 to bid farewell, and he ends the week at -2. Not what he was dreaming of, but the 2019 champion golfer will always have … er … Portrush.ShareUpdated at 14.05 BSTRain and possible thunderstorms were forecast for Sunday at the start of the week. But while the forecasters have got most things spot on, this call was way wide of the mark. It’s sunny and hot! Low scores ahoy! Not too much in the way of wind, either, though gusts may pick up a little later in the afternoon. The forecasters weren’t that far wide of the mark though: those showers and thunderstorms may heave into view in the evening, but by then everything most likely will be done and dusted. A glorious Open Sunday!SharePreambleLet’s not put too fine a point on it: the 153rd Open Championship is Scottie Scheffler’s to lose, and the final round at Portrush will most likely become a procession. Bigger 54-hole leads have been lost in the past … but Scheffler is of a different stripe to poor old Jean Van de Velde, who went into the final round at Carnoustie in 1999 five clear and so full of hope. It’s not totally beyond the realms that one of the chasing pack could overhaul the leader’s four-stroke advantage, but that’d surely take a perfect storm of a round in the mid-to-low 60s while the world number one suffers a series of absurdly bad bounces and/or an incomprehensible implosion. Having said all that, this is golf, so.Here’s how the top of the leaderboard looked after the third round …-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 sheet (all times BST, GB&I unless stated). It’s on!0830 Matti Schmid, Riki Kawamoto0840 Dean Burmester, Phil Mickelson0850 Sebastian Soderberg, Andrew Novak0900 Shane Lowry, Jacob Skov Olesen0910 Antoine Rozner, Viktor Hovland0920 Adrien Saddier, Ryggs Johnston0930 Romain Langasque, Jordan Spieth0940 Francesco Molinari, Matthew Jordan0955 Sergio Garcia, Justin Leonard1005 Thomas Detry, Sepp Straka1015 Aaron Rai, Jason Kokrak1025 Daniel Berger, Jhonattan Vegas1035 Maverick McNealy, Henrik Stenson1045 Takumi Kanaya, Jordan Smith1055 Sam Burns, Rickie Fowler1110 Akshay Bhatia, Jon Rahm1120 Jesper Svensson, Thriston Lawrence1130 Bryson DeChambeau, Nathan Kimsey1140 Hideki Matsuyama, Tony Finau1150 Justin Thomas, Tommy Fleetwood1200 JJ Spaun, John Parry1210 Keegan Bradley, Christiaan Bezuidenhout1225 Marc Leishman, Lucas Glover1235 Sungjae Im, Dustin Johnson1245 Corey Conners, Lee Westwood1255 Harry Hall, Justin Rose1305 Ludvig Åberg, Kristoffer Reitan1315 Oliver Lindell, Matt Wallace1325 Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman1340 Rasmus Højgaard, Robert MacIntyre1350 Nicolai Højgaard, Russell Henley1400 Xander Schauffele, Tyrrell Hatton1410 Harris English, Chris Gotterup1420 Rory McIlroy, Matt Fitzpatrick1430 Haotong Li, Scottie SchefflerShare
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