The Open 2019: fourth round - live!
(The Guardian Sports News)

Hole-by-hole updates from the final day at Royal PortrushFleetwood prepares to battle Lowry in shootout in the stormOfficial Open leaderboardSend your thoughts to Scott by email here 12.07pm BST Here´s Sergio in a nutshell. Having just driven out of bounds on 5, he shanks his second at the par-five 7th into extremely thick nonsense up the bank to the right of the hole. That could be lost. He immediately drops a provisional ... and creams one of the shots of the week into the front of the green, his ball slowly rolling towards the cup in statesmanlike fashion. It stops a couple of rolls short. That´s the most elegant shot of the week! Sadly, it counts for absolutely nothing, as some pesky marshal has found his first ball. So instead of saving par, he´s chipping down the hill from the filth and running up a bogey. He´s +2. 12.00pm BST Also now four under for his round: the aforementioned Doc Redman. This impressive young man has an interest in calculus, and perhaps he utilised his mathematical mind to calculate the bounce off the bank to the left of the 10th green. His ball cannons right and rolls gently towards the lip of the hole, where it frustratingly stops. That would have been sensational. No eagle, but birdie will suffice, and he´s -4, suddenly in the top 20 as things stand at this early stage. Continue reading...