19-07-2025
The Open leaderboard 2025 live: scores, updates from round 3 at Portrush
Brian Harman scored a fantastic second-round 65 yesterday and held the clubhouse lead for much of the afternoon on eight under until Matt Fitzpatrick finished. The American seems to play some of his best golf on links courses and won the Open at Royal Liverpool in 2023 by six strokes. Fun fact for you, he is one of three left-handed winners of the Open. The others? Bob Charles and Phil Mickelson.
Anyway, the 38-year-old is looking to join an elite group of Americans to win two Opens in a three-year span (or less). Walter Hagen, Bob Jones, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson and of course Tiger Woods have all managed it. Harman starts two back today
The third round of the Open is under way and the first pairings are out on the course. Both starting on one over, Germany's Matthias Schmid and Canada's Corey Conners both find the fairway from the tee at the 1st. The conditions are perfect out there at the moment, so expect some of these early starters to climb the leaderboard this morning.
If you need to be caught up on all of yesterday's action at Portrush make sure you have a read of Tom Kershaw's superb report:
• Matt Fitzpatrick back at his best in time for Scottie Scheffler duel
The Englishman's five-under-par second round has him one shot behind 'Tiger-like' American at Portrush, but Shane Lowry penalised after ball moves during practice swing
In case you missed this yesterday, there was late drama at Portrush after the end of the second round as Shane Lowry was given a two-shot penalty.
The local hero won the only major of his career here back in 2019, and his hopes of repeating that feat take a significant dent as he now starts on evens having made it into the clubhouse on two under at the close of play.
Lowry was under investigation during his round yesterday after his ball appeared to move during a practice swing as he prepared to take his second shot at the par-five 12th from the rough. The Irishman made par on the hole, but his two-shot penalty turns that into a double bogey.
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9.35 Matthias Schmid (Ger), Corey Conners (Can)
9.45 Sepp Straka (Aut), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn)
9.55 Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), Adrien Saddier (Fra)
10.05 Henrik Stenson (Swe), Sebastian Soderberg (Swe)
10.15 Thomas Detry (Bel), Jacob Skov Olesen (Den)
10.25 Bryson DeChambeau, Nathan Kimsey (Eng)
10.35 Maverick McNealy, Thriston Lawrence (RSA)
10.45 Justin Leonard, John Parry (Eng)
11.00 Andrew Novak, Sergio Garcia (Spa)
11.10 Jesper Svensson (Swe), Francesco Molinari (Ita)
11.20 Riki Kawamoto (Jpn), Wyndham Clark
11.30 Shane Lowry (Ire), Jon Rahm (Spa)
11.40 J.J. Spaun, Dustin Johnson
11.50 Phil Mickelson, Jhonattan Vegas (Ven)
12.00 Viktor Hovland (Nor), Jordan Spieth
12.15 Russell Henley, Antoine Rozner (Fra)
12.25 Romain Langasque (Fra), Daniel Berger
12.35 Sungjae Im (Kor), Dean Burmester (RSA)
12.45 Matt Wallace (Eng), Akshay Bhatia
12.55 Jason Kokrak, Lucas Glover
1.05 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Justin Thomas
1.15 Aaron Rai (Eng), Rickie Fowler
1.30 Marc Leishman (Aus), Oliver Lindell (Fin)
1.40 Ryggs Johnston, Xander Schauffele
1.50 Kristoffer Reitan (Nor), Matthew Jordan (Eng)
2.00 Ludvig Åberg (Swe), Justin Rose (Eng)
2.10 Harry Hall (Eng), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (RSA)
2.20 Sam Burns, Lee Westwood (Eng)
2.30 Jordan Smith (Eng), Rory McIlroy (Nir)
2.45 Keegan Bradley, Nicolai Hojgaard (Den)
2.55 Tony Finau, Chris Gotterup
3.05 Harris English, Robert MacIntyre (Sco)
3.15 Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Rasmus Hojgaard (Den)
3.25 Haotong Li (Chi), Brian Harman
3.35 Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Scottie Scheffler
Good morning and welcome to The Times' coverage of the third round of the Open at Royal Portrush. What a day it was yesterday, as Scottie Scheffler charged through the field to lead after his superb round of 64, and what a round for the Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick too who will start one shot off the lead today. They are paired up together and set to tee off this afternoon, but in the meantime we will have our eyes on the chasing pack to see if anyone can catch the world No1. Rick Broadbent, Stuart Fraser and Tom Kershaw are in place to bring us updates from the Causeway Coast, so sit back and enjoy!
