Shubhankar Sharma stays in top-10 at Open

Shubhankar Sharma stayed in top-10 at Open, shooting 68-71-70 for 3-under 209. Brian Harman shot 2-under 69, 5 shots clear of Cameron Young and 6 ahead of Jon Rahm. Sepp Straka, Jason Day, Viktor Hovland, Antoine Rozner and Tommy Fleetwood tied at 5-under. Rahm set course record with 8-under 63, Sharma showed patience with good par saves.

Going toe-to-toe with the best in the world, Shubhankar Sharma continued to stay in the top-10 at the Major he grew up watching on television in faraway India.

Sharma, who turned 27 on Friday, while moving into the tied-fourth place at the 151st Open, was still in the vicinity at 4-under through 36 holes. He was tied ninth, the third successive day he was in the top-10 of a Major.

Landing an eagle from 36 feet besides picking 14 pars in the first 15 holes, Sharma stayed patient and out of trouble and when he did get into it he came out well enough for pars.

That was until he ran into a 10-footer, which scraped the edge and moved away for a bogey. He came close to making amends on the 17th with a great tee shot, but again his birdie putt from some 12 feet went just past the cup.

On the 18th, he went into the rough, but reached the green in three and then two-putted for par.

Sharma has now played rounds of 68-71-70 for a total of 3-under 209.

Even though the man of the day was Jon Rahm, who set a new course record with 8-under 63 with eight birdies and no bogeys, southpaw Brian Harman, who lists hunting on his 1,000-acre farm as his passion, dropped two early shots to fall two 8-under.