\u201cYou feel like you can shoot a score in the morning and the greens are perfect, that if you do roll it well, you feel like you hole everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
After six birdies in the opening 10 holes, Fox\u2019s shot at a historic 61 was undone by a bogey at the 13th.<\/p>\n
He bounced back with three birdies in the final five holes to climb into contention going into Sunday\u2019s final round.<\/p>\n
Fellow New Zealander Kazuma Kobori also had a strong day, shooting a three-under 67 to move to four-under and a share of 12th with plenty of players still on the course.<\/p>\n
A leaderboard packed with some of golf\u2019s biggest stars is primed for a spectacular weekend in pristine conditions on England\u2019s northwest coast.<\/p>\n
Cameron Young, world No 4, begins his third round at six-under.<\/p>\n
World No 1 and defending champion Scottie Scheffler is two shots further back but well in the running at four under, alongside home favourite Tommy Fleetwood and two-time major winner John Rahm.<\/p>\n
Rory McIlroy\u2019s hopes of making a charge up the leaderboard appeared to be fading as he was one over for the day through eight holes to slip to level par for the tournament.<\/p>\n
But a monstrous drive and chip in for eagle at the par-four ninth brought the Masters champion back within six shots of the lead at the turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou feel like you can shoot a score in the morning and the greens are perfect, that if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15535,1015,15537,6196,576,2013,15539,15543,9551,15540,2510,3186,44,376,6989,6987,6641,205,1486,9540,15541,625,1410,2506,1745,14059,3185,2633,15542,15536,440,15538,478,11983,1033],"class_list":["post-38849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-15535","tag-at","tag-became","tag-birkdale","tag-championship","tag-club","tag-days","tag-during","tag-early","tag-equal","tag-first","tag-fox","tag-golf","tag-history","tag-into","tag-kiwi","tag-lead","tag-leaderboard","tag-major","tag-makes","tag-move","tag-open","tag-player","tag-record","tag-round","tag-royal","tag-ryan","tag-score","tag-share","tag-shoot","tag-the","tag-third","tag-to","tag-up","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}