The Open 2018: third round – live!

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1.09pm BST

Patrick Reed’s putter is undoing a lot of good work. After missing a short-ish par putt on 16, he does it again on 17, and those back-to-back bogeys see him plummet back down the standings to level par for the championship. Chris Wood isn’t in the mood to give anything up yet, though: his second at 12 is a little shy of the green, but he gets up and down in a very calm and considered fashion. He stays at -6. Meanwhile back on 1, the 2010 champion Louis Oosthuizen makes birdie to move instantly to -1. Now there’s a man who knows how to launch a birdie blitz from the middle of the pack. Here’s hoping he’s in that sort of mood!

1.05pm BST

Positive Thinking with Dr Golf (No1 in a series of 1): If you go out first with a marker, you’re guaranteed to be the clubhouse leader for ten minutes or so at the very least. Best look at it that way. Hats off then to Gavin Green of Malaysia, who finished in the top 20 at Gullane last week and is continuing his decent form here by making the cut on his Open debut. He’s shot a level-par 71 today, and therefore posts an early third-round mark at +3. It almost certainly ensures he won’t be out first on his own tomorrow: Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Keegan Bradley are currently propping up the leaderboard at +5, with just five holes of notoriously difficult golf to play between them.

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