The Open 2026: day three golf updates from Royal Birkdale – live

Key events

10m ago

Preamble

Good afternoon, patrons, and with perfect timing, here comes Mark Darbon, the chief executive of the R&A, to have a word with Sky Sports on that rules infraction. “We have a clear process … an unfortunate set of circumstances … from a rules perspective this was really clear cut … we communicated it to Bryson … we understand there’s some emotion around that … we can all empathise with it … but from a rules perspective this played out as we would hope it would.”

As for the man himself, DeChambeau is on the property, so if there was any residual concern of his not teeing it up, that can be put to bed. So we can all move on. That’ll never be mentioned again, then. Eh?

Preamble

Welcome to Moving Day at the 154th Open Championship! After 36 holes, the top of the leaderboard looked like this …

-8: Lucas Herbert

-7: Bryson DeChambeau

-6: Cameron Young, Ryan Gerard

-5: Sam Burns, Bryson DeChambeau, Kim Si-woo

-4: Matt Wallace, Bud Cauley, Thomas Detry, Robert MacIntyre, Alex Fitzpatrick, Francesco Molinari, Scittie Scheffler, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm

… while these (selected) big names missed the cut …

Cameron Smith, Aaron Rai, Henrik Stenson, Harris English, Tom Kim, Justin Rose, Maverick McNealy, Joaquin Niemann, Matt Fitzpatrick, Viktor Hovland, Jason Day, Li Haotong, Darren Clarke, Stewart Cink, Padraig Harrington, Gary Woodland, Brian Harman, David Duval and the 2017 champion Jordan Spieth

… and that left us with a tee sheet that looked like this (all times BST, GB&I unless stated). It’s on!

9.10 am: J McDonald, R Henley

9.20 am: Min Woo Lee, R Hisatsune

9.30 am: JL Ballester Barrio, K Higa

9.40 am: M Plunkett, N Kataoka

9.50 am: P Uihlein, B Koepka

10 am: A Potgeiter, K Bradley

10.10 am: A Noren, A Smalley

10.20 am: R Fowler, M Homa

10.30 am: R Fox, X Schauffele

10.45 am: K Reitan, M Penge

10.55 am: C Jarvis, K Kitayama

11.05 am: L Canter, S Theegala

11.15 am: M Brennan, E Chacarra

11.25 am: E Cole, MJ Daffue

11.35 am: K Kobori, N Taylor

11.45 am: J Thomas, J Matsuyama

11.55 am: B Griffin, H Du Plessis

12.10 pm: A Sullivan, P Cantlay

12.20 pm: J Bridgeman, R McIlroy

12.30 pm: J Svensson, S Norris

12.40 pm: J Parry, M Thorbjornsen

12.50 pm: J Smith, Im Sung-jae

1 pm: M Southgate, N Echavarria

1.10 pm: R Neergaard-Petersen, C Morikawa

1.20 pm: A Scott, C Gotterup

1.35 pm: P Reed, J Keefer

1.45 pm: C Conners, S Straka

1.55 pm: T Hatton, V Perez

2.05 pm: D Brown, C John

2.15 pm: L Aberg, S Lowry

2.25 pm: JJ Spaun, P Coody

2.35 pm: J Rahm, T Fleetwood

2.45 pm: S Scheffler, F Molinari

3 pm: A Fitzpatrick, R MacIntyre

3.10 pm: T Detry, B Cauley

3.20 pm: M Wallace, Si Woo Kim

3.30 pm: B DeChambeau, S Burns

3.40 pm: R Gerard, C Young

3.50 pm: J Suber, L Herbert