{"id":76240,"date":"2026-07-18T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/the-open-2026-fox-equals-major-record-dechambeau-set-to-start-and-day-three-updates-live\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:55:22","slug":"the-open-2026-fox-equals-major-record-dechambeau-set-to-start-and-day-three-updates-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/the-open-2026-fox-equals-major-record-dechambeau-set-to-start-and-day-three-updates-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open 2026: Fox equals major record, DeChambeau set to start and day three updates \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0fUpdates from the third round at Royal Birkdale<br \/>\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/leaderboard\">Official leaderboard<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:scott.murray.casual@theguardian.com\">Mail Scott<\/a> with your thoughts<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fox is left with a 60-footer for birdie, and he leaves it a good four feet short.<\/strong> That\u2019s not a bad putt given the distance, but in these heightened circumstances it\u2019s very irritating: he\u2019ll die wondering. At least it\u2019s not agonising, though: one dimple short would have been a total nightmare. And he tidies up for his 62 to equal the men\u2019s major record. He\u2019s delighted anyway, and warmly congratulated by his playing partner Xander Schauffele, who has done this very thing twice already. Fox etches his name on the roll of honour \u2013 and he\u2019s the early clubhouse leader, and joint actual leader, at -8!<\/p>\n<p><em>Branden Grace (2017 Open, Birkdale)<br \/>\n  Rickie Fowler (2023 US Open, Valhalla)<br \/>\n  Xander Schauffele (2023 US Open, Valhalla; 2024 PGA Championship, LA Country Club)<br \/>\n  Shane Lowry (2024 PGA Championship, LA Country Club)<br \/>\n  Lucas Herbert (2026 Open, Birkdale)<br \/>\n  Sam Burns (2026 Open, Birkdale)<br \/>\n  Ryan Fox (2026 Open, Birkdale)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/jul\/18\/the-open-2026-day-three-golf-updates-from-royal-birkdale-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0fUpdates from the third round at Royal Birkdale\ufe0fOfficial leaderboard | Mail Scott with your thoughts Fox is left with a 60-footer for birdie, and he leaves it a good four feet short. That\u2019s not a bad putt given the distance, but in these heightened circumstances it\u2019s very irritating: he\u2019ll die wondering. At least it\u2019s not &#8230; <a title=\"The Open 2026: Fox equals major record, DeChambeau set to start and day three updates \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/the-open-2026-fox-equals-major-record-dechambeau-set-to-start-and-day-three-updates-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Open 2026: Fox equals major record, DeChambeau set to start and day three updates \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}