Jordan Spieth will take a share of the lead into the final round of the 147th Open Championship as he looks to become the first back-to-back winner for a decade.
But he could get the battle with Tiger Woods he has always pictured in his head with the 14-time major winner lurking ominously among the chasing pack after a thrilling day of low scoring at a defenceless Carnoustie.
The tone was set when Spieth drove the first green on the 380-yard par four and holed from 12 feet for eagle on his way to a bogey-free 65 to finish nine under par, a total matched by compatriots Xander Schauffele and Kevin Kisner.
Relive the drama.
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It's moving day at the 147th Open Championship.
The oldest tournament in golf has returned to Carnoustie, one of the most fearsome courses on the rotation, for what is proving to be a true test of the golfing elite. The weather isn't playing ball. After a hot summer the Angus course is baked to a crisp giving even the tour's shortest hitters a chance to blast their way around this week. But watch out for those fairway traps.
We will have all the latest news, scores, updates and more from our man on the course, Ed Malyon, plus analysis from elsewhere right here.
Just nine shots separate the 79 players who made the halfway cut at Carnoustie, where Paul Lawrie famously came from 10 strokes back with just 18 holes to play to win the Claret Jug in 1999.
The odd number of players meant that Malaysia's Gavin Green was accompanied by a marker, Keir McNicoll, a senior PGA assistant at Carnoustie Golf Links, as he struck the opening shot at 9:15am.
Masters champion Patrick Reed is in the second group out alongside Welsh qualifier Rhys Enoch, with Justin Rose in the following group after scraping into the weekend with a birdie on the 18th on Friday evening.
The cut had fallen at three over par with the joint leaders, Zach Johnson and Kevin Kisner on six under and not due out until 4pm.
Reed all about it
Hogan was tied for the lead after 54 holes in 1953 before going on to lift the Claret Jug in his only appearance in the event, but the last two winners, Lawrie and Padraig Harrington, trailed by 10 and six strokes respectively after three rounds.
With precious little wind the conditions were good for low scoring and Reed has followed four straight pars with birdies at the fifth and sixth, while 19-year-old Scot Sam Locke birdied the first.
As the only amateur to make the cut Locke, who works part-time at Lawrie's golf centre in Aberdeen, is guaranteed to win the silver medal as long as he completes all four rounds.
Miyazato goes low
Wood you believe it
Chris Wood is tearing up Carnoustie!
Best of the bunch
That's the best front nine we've seen this week. Wood is out in 31.
He's birdied the first, third, fifth, sixth and seventh to improve to three under par overall, just three shots behind the leaders.
Reed has also birdied the 11th to get into red figures on one under.
Everything's coming up roses
Record breaker?
England's Tommy Fleetwood holds the course record at Carnoustie with a 63 recorded in last year's Dunhill Links Championship, but the lowest score in an Open at the venue is 64, shot by Steve Stricker and Richard Green in the third and fourth round respectively in 2007.
He couldn't, could he?
Tiger time
Life's a beach
Up ahead, Rose made light of the tough finishing stretch, carding birdies on the 17th and 18th to complete an inward nine of 30 and a record-equalling 64.
That set the early clubhouse target at four under par, although there was no sign of the conditions getting any tougher.
Looking Rosey
"I was very excited last night not to be down the road, ruing another Open opportunity gone. I picked up where I left off last night and it was a great day's work.
"I thought the pins were easier than they have been and if the wind doesn't pick up you are going to see some low scores."
Phil the burn
The #lads have arrived
Carnoustie professional Keir McNicoll admitted nerves got to him as he was thrust into the limelight on the third day of the Open.
McNicoll, who was working in the club shop from 4.30am on the first two days of the tournament at his home links, was invited to play the course as a marker on Saturday.
With an odd number players remaining in the field following the cut, McNicoll partnered first man out Gavin Green as the third round got under way.
"It was scary," said the 34-year-old, a local boy who returned to Carnoustie last year after previously working at Gullane.
"The first tee was a bit emotional. Standing there, even just coming out and people started applauding - I had to just gather myself to play my shots. It was pretty cool.
"I'm not playing that well and so just to get contact and get it airborne at the first was impressive!"
Not out of the Woods...
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