The Open 2026: Scheffler at −6 after two holes as final round begins at Royal Birkdale

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So is there a score out there if someone wants to make a charge? Of course there’s a score out there, we’ve had three 62s already this week. A fourth is probably a pipe dream, with the wind picking up in the afternoon as it always does … but then rule nothing out, because these gentlemen are good . There are already three players back in the house with 66s: Matthew Southgate (E), John Parry (-2) and Rickie Fowler, who at -3 is the very early clubhouse leader. But there are a couple of big names only just out who are also illustrating the point. Scottie Scheffler has thrown darts at the flag on both of the opening two holes, and his birdie-birdie start takes him to -6. Cameron Young meanwhile has birdied four of the first five holes to rise to within three of Sam Burns’ overnight lead. How he’ll be ruing his miserable back nine of 40 yesterday evening. But that hour and a half, when the wheels came off, hasn’t cost him yet.

-10: Burns

-8: Fox, Kim

-7: Young (5), Gerard, Herbert

-6: Scheffler (2), Åberg, DeChambeau, Suber

-5: Neergaard-Petersen, Fleetwood

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