Herbert Leads The Open By Two After Historic 62

Lucas Herbert has torn Royal through with a historic 62 to lead The Open by two strokes heading into the final round, while Bryson DeChambeau's challenge was dealt a serious blow after he was assessed a two-stroke penalty. Herbert sits at -8, two clear of Jackson Suber and Cameron Young who are locked together at -6.

Sam Burns and Francesco Molinari share fourth at -5, with Matt Wallace, Bud Cauley and Thomas Detry a further shot back at -4 in a chasing pack that will make Sunday at Royal anything but straightforward for Herbert to navigate.

There are no South Africans in the leading groups, but the leaderboard remains wide open enough that a fast starter from the field could rewrite the final-round story entirely. Herbert's two-shot cushion is real, but on a links where the wind can shift the arithmetic in minutes, nothing is settled.

Keep across all the action and final-round tee times on our golf home as the closing chapter of one of the more dramatic Opens in recent memory gets under way.

First reported by Golf Monthly.