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Royal Birkdale (Southport): There was no shortage of drama at the 154th Open, which literally went down to the wire. As many as seven players reached at least eight under at some point and no one went over 11 under before the roulette ball got stuck at nine under for more than two and a half hours.Then, cautiously but surely at first, he slipped into a 10-under slot as New Zealand’s Ryan Fox holed the last putt from just under 12 feet to overtake American Cameron Young’s club mark of nine-under, which was set when Fox had yet to make the turn in his final round.The son of former All Black rugby union player Grant Fox, the New Zealander found four birdies in his last four holes in a dramatic finish and almost out of nowhere at the turn, he ran past the post and opponents despite bogeying the par-3 15th. With the crowd holding their breath, Fox held his nerve and launched from 12 feet, leaving Young stranded again.Fox (68) finished 10-under, while Young (64), who went from three under to nine under, was second. Overnight leader Sam Burns, 72, who almost missed the Open to be with his newborn daughter, climbed to 11-under before reeling off three straight bogeys on the fourth hole to drop to eighth and stay there for third.Defending champion Scottie Scheffler (67) did not give up until the end. He needed an impossible eagle on the par-4 18th and finished with a bogey for seven-under and was tied for fourth with Southport-born Tommy Fleetwood, seeing his chances disappear after three bogeys in a row midway through the round from the ninth to the 11th.
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