The Open Championship R3

Open Championship 2021 R3
July 15-18
Royal St George’s Golf Club, Sandwich, Kent
$11,500,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes

Louis Oosthuizen kept hold of the lead at 12-under heading into the final day in spite of struggling on the back nine at Royal St George’s.

He made two birdies on the front nine to make the turn in 33 but bogeyed the 11th and 13th holes before firing a final birdie at the 16th to stay one shot ahead of Collin Morikawa.

Open Championship 2021 R3

“I was definitely not swinging it freely today, I was all over the place with iron shots and it felt like I kept it together at the end there,” said Oosthuizen.

“I’m very excited, it is a great position. I need to play well tomorrow and see if I can get rid of those loose swings.

Open Championship 2021 R3

“You need to believe that you can lift the trophy as well and if you think about it beforehand that you might win this championship, I think that’s great, and you have to believe you can do it.

“Finishing second isn’t great, so I will play my heart out tomorrow and see if I can lift the Claret Jug again.”

Open Championship 2021 R3

Should Oosthuizen win on Sunday he would become the first wire-to-wire Major winner since Dustin Johnson at the 2020 Masters and the first at The Open since Rory McIlroy in 2014.

Morikawa lost some ground with two bogeys in his first five holes but back-to-back birdies at the 7th and 8th got him back on track. He made two more birdies on the back nine to reach 11-under.

Open Championship 2021 R3

“I’ve never been in the position all the previous other times. To be honest, you build a game plan and we see what we need to do all the way the tournament and I stick to it. That is exactly what I am going to try and do tomorrow.

“Obviously being in a final round at a major is different, but I’m going to try and keep it as similar as possible to every other tournament I’ve played.

“I think the biggest thing I can draw from the PGA is just knowing I can get it done. But I think confidence just comes from hitting good shots, quality shots, seeing putts go in. There is a lot to draw from, especially this week.

“I don’t have much experience on links golf, and pretty much all the highlights in my head are from this week. Thankfully there is quite a few. Hopefully we can just use that momentum from the first three days and just bring it into the last 18. It’s going to be a grueling 18, but I look forward to it.”

Open Championship 2021 R3

Jordan Spieth got off to a great start with four birdies and a bogey on the front nine, tying with Oosthuizen for the lead. He fired one more birdie at the 10th, bogeyed the 11th and closed his round with back-to-back bogeys for a 69 and solo third place at 9-under.

Corey Conners made four birdies on the back nine for a 66 share fourth place at 8-under with Scottie Scheffler (69).

Open Championship 2021 R3

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Louis Oosthuizen	-12	64	65	69	198
2	Collin Morikawa	-11	67	64	68	199
3	Jordan Spieth	-9	65	67	69	201
T4	Corey Conners	-8	68	68	66	202
T4	Scottie Scheffler	-8	67	66	69	202
T6	Dylan Frittelli	-7	66	67	70	203
T6	Mackenzie Hughes	-7	66	69	68	203
T6	Jon Rahm	-7	71	64	68	203
T9	Justin Harding	-6	67	67	70	204
T9	Marcel Siem	-6	67	67	70	204
T9	Cameron Smith	-6	69	67	68	204
T12	Daniel Berger	-5	70	67	68	205
T12	Paul Casey	-5	68	67	70	205
T12	Shane Lowry	-5	71	65	69	205
T12	Webb Simpson	-5	66	72	67	205
T12	Kevin Streelman	-5	70	69	66	205
T12	Andy Sullivan	-5	67	67	71	205
T18	Joel Dahmen	-4	69	68	69	206
T18	Emiliano Grillo	-4	70	64	72	206
T18	Dustin Johnson	-4	68	65	73	206
T18	Jason Kokrak	-4	70	70	66	206
T18	Robert MacIntyre	-4	72	69	65	206
T18	Cameron Tringale	-4	69	66	71	206
T18	Danny Willett	-4	67	69	70	206
T25	Matt Fitzpatrick	-3	71	69	67	207
T25	Ryan Fox	-3	68	68	71	207
T25	Lanto Griffin	-3	69	70	68	207
T25	Brian Harman	-3	65	71	71	207
T25	Brooks Koepka	-3	69	66	72	207
T25	Aaron Rai	-3	70	69	68	207
T25	Justin Rose	-3	67	70	70	207
T25	Matt Wallace	-3	70	68	69	207
T33	Dean Burmester	-2	70	67	71	208
T33	Tony Finau	-2	70	66	72	208
T33	Tommy Fleetwood	-2	67	71	70	208
T33	Talor Gooch	-2	69	72	67	208
T33	Viktor Hovland	-2	68	71	69	208
T33	Antoine Rozner	-2	70	71	67	208
T33	Brandt Snedeker	-2	68	68	72	208
T33	Daniel van Tonder	-2	68	66	74	208
T41	Sam Horsfield	-1	70	70	69	209
T41	Rory McIlroy	-1	70	70	69	209
T41	Ian Poulter	-1	72	66	71	209
T44	Byeong Hun An	E	67	70	73	210
T44	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	E	68	72	70	210
T44	Sergio Garcia	E	68	69	73	210
T44	Max Homa	E	70	69	71	210
T44	Matthias Schmid (a)	E	74	65	71	210
T44	Jack Senior	E	67	71	72	210
T44	Justin Thomas	E	72	67	71	210
T44	Johannes Veerman	E	70	68	72	210
T44	Lee Westwood	E	71	67	72	210
T53	Abraham Ancer	+1	69	71	71	211
T53	Marcus Armitage	+1	69	72	70	211
T53	Benjamin Hebert	+1	66	74	71	211
T53	Jonathan Thomson	+1	71	67	73	211
T53	Bernd Wiesberger	+1	71	70	70	211
T58	Harris English	+2	75	65	72	212
T58	Billy Horschel	+2	70	69	73	212
T58	Joaquin Niemann	+2	69	70	73	212
T58	Chez Reavie	+2	72	66	74	212
T58	Xander Schauffele	+2	69	71	72	212
T58	Adam Scott	+2	73	66	73	212
T64	Richard Bland	+3	70	70	73	213
T64	Bryson DeChambeau	+3	71	70	72	213
T64	Padraig Harrington	+3	72	68	73	213
T64	Jazz Janewattananond	+3	70	69	74	213
T64	Chan Kim	+3	70	69	74	213
T64	Ryosuke Kinoshita	+3	72	69	72	213
T64	JC Ritchie	+3	71	70	72	213
T71	Yuxin Lin (a)	+5	69	72	74	215
T71	Brendan Steele	+5	73	68	74	215
T73	Sam Burns	+6	71	69	76	216
T73	Rickie Fowler	+6	69	72	75	216
T75	Kevin Kisner	+7	70	69	78	217
T75	Richard Mansell	+7	72	69	76	217
T75	Poom Saksansin	+7	73	68	76	217
CUT	Keegan Bradley	+2	71	71		142
CUT	Jorge Campillo	+2	72	70		142
CUT	Tyrrell Hatton	+2	72	70		142
CUT	Russell Henley	+2	70	72		142
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	+2	70	72		142
CUT	Rikard Karlberg	+2	72	70		142
CUT	Martin Kaymer	+2	74	68		142
CUT	Marcus Kinhult	+2	69	73		142
CUT	Chris Kirk	+2	68	74		142
CUT	Kurt Kitayama	+2	71	71		142
CUT	Marc Leishman	+2	75	67		142
CUT	Guido Migliozzi	+2	69	73		142
CUT	Francesco Molinari	+2	68	74		142
CUT	Sebastián Muñoz	+2	73	69		142
CUT	Ryutaro Nagano	+2	70	72		142
CUT	Ryan Palmer	+2	72	70		142
CUT	Victor Perez	+2	70	72		142
CUT	Henrik Stenson	+2	71	71		142
CUT	Harold Varner III	+2	70	72		142
CUT	Jimmy Walker	+2	70	72		142
CUT	Rafa Cabrera Bello	+3	70	73		143
CUT	Patrick Cantlay	+3	74	69		143
CUT	Stewart Cink	+3	66	77		143
CUT	Branden Grace	+3	72	71		143
CUT	Lucas Herbert	+3	70	73		143
CUT	Daniel Hillier	+3	72	71		143
CUT	Charley Hoffman	+3	72	71		143
CUT	Matt Jones	+3	72	71		143
CUT	Min Woo Lee	+3	74	69		143
CUT	Troy Merritt	+3	73	70		143
CUT	Shaun Norris	+3	72	71		143
CUT	Patrick Reed	+3	72	71		143
CUT	Matthias Schwab	+3	71	72		143
CUT	Laird Shepherd (a)	+3	74	69		143
CUT	Brendon Todd	+3	72	71		143
CUT	Gary Woodland	+3	73	70		143
CUT	Erik van Rooyen	+3	69	74		143
CUT	John Catlin	+4	75	69		144
CUT	Ricardo Celia	+4	72	72		144
CUT	Ernie Els	+4	72	72		144
CUT	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	+4	71	73		144
CUT	Adam Hadwin	+4	75	69		144
CUT	Richard T. Lee	+4	75	69		144
CUT	Haotong Li	+4	75	69		144
CUT	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	+4	75	69		144
CUT	Keith Mitchell	+4	68	76		144
CUT	Jason Scrivener	+4	73	71		144
CUT	Jason Day	+5	75	70		145
CUT	Lucas Glover	+5	75	70		145
CUT	Brad Kennedy	+5	71	74		145
CUT	Alex Noren	+5	74	71		145
CUT	Carlos Ortiz	+5	75	70		145
CUT	Darren Clarke	+6	71	75		146
CUT	Thomas Detry	+6	72	74		146
CUT	Cole Hammer (a)	+6	75	71		146
CUT	Rikuya Hoshino	+6	74	72		146
CUT	Matt Kuchar	+6	74	72		146
CUT	Joe Long (a)	+6	73	73		146
CUT	Jaco Ahlers	+7	68	79		147
CUT	Sam Bairstow (a)	+7	75	72		147
CUT	Christoffer Bring (a)	+7	72	75		147
CUT	Romain Langasque	+7	74	73		147
CUT	Joost Luiten	+7	76	71		147
CUT	C.T. Pan	+7	71	76		147
CUT	Garrick Higgo	+8	73	75		148
CUT	Nicholas Poppleton	+8	75	73		148
CUT	Paul Waring	+8	72	76		148
CUT	Abel Gallegos (a)	+9	73	76		149
CUT	Ben Hutchinson	+9	77	72		149
CUT	Adam Long	+9	72	77		149
CUT	Aaron Pike	+9	74	75		149
CUT	Marcel Schneider	+9	73	76		149
CUT	Sam Forgan	+10	73	77		150
CUT	Connor Worsdall	+10	77	73		150
CUT	Phil Mickelson	+12	80	72		152
CUT	Daniel Croft	+14	76	78		154
CUT	Yuki Inamori	+16	75	81		156
CUT	Deyen Lawson	+17	80	77		157
W/D	Will Zalatoris	-1	69			69