Oliver Wilson
Former Ryder Cup player on BBC Radio 5 Live

A clumsy putt from Bryson DeChambeau.

It's really interesting watching these two players play this. Bryson's comes in low and hard and rolls on to 30 feet. Sam Burns comes in so high, so soft. It lands in the same spot, takes one bounce and checks up next to the hole.

It shows where Bryson is struggling this season with his wedge play and he's got a lot of work left for his par.

The seventh is just 115 yards today and Sam Burns has played a stunner down the hill, with plenty of action on the ball getting it to jump and dance on the green before settling two feet away.

He's got that for a share of the lead.

Ooooh, Lucas Herbert's drive at the fifth nestles right up against the face of a bunker. He does well to get it out and rests between the two traps guarding the pin.

From there, the Australian holds his nerve to get up and in for par.

Jackson Suber continues his fine play, though. Having driven just short of the putting surface, he clips a well-judged chip into a couple of feet and rolls in the putt to move eight under to join Ryan Fox in the lead.

James Gregg
BBC Radio 5 Live commentator at Royal Birkdale

We can barely hear ourselves think here!

Tommy Fleetwood oh-so-close to a ridiculous eagle two here at the 11th.

What an iron shot that was.

Jon Rahm's mixed day takes a turn for the worse as his approach to the 11th green looks like it's going to hold on a ridge, but then trundles slowly into a bunker.

Tommy Fleetwood goes next and it's a great shot! Almost a tap-in birdie to come in a couple of minutes...

We are fully into this third round now and the course is set fair.

Plenty of scoring opportunities available for the leaders, and also plenty of hazards out there.

Stick with us.

We join Bob MacIntyre on the elevated ninth green putting for birdie from 20 feet.

There are a couple of groans as it just scoots by, but he makes the turn in a decent position.

Tom Grundy
BBC Sport senior journalist at Royal Birkdale

Roars of "Tommy, Tommy" as Fleetwood crosses from the front to the back nine.

After a steady first two days, fans here are starting to believe the local hero could do something special.

The Everton fan must have enjoyed the shout of "Up the Toffees" as he headed off down the 10th fairway.

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Oliver Wilson
Former Ryder Cup player on BBC Radio 5 Live

That was fantastic!

DeChambeau did so well matching it up, perfect pace and coming in from the side of the hole.

Thirty five feet, he'll be delighted by that and such a boost at this stage will feel pretty big.

Huge cheer rings out around the sixth green as Bryson DeChambeau lands a long, snaking birdie putt from over 30 feet away.

It's a banana short down the hill, breaking extravagantly from left to right but it hammers into the centre of the cup at pace. Cue the fist pump from the American.

Game on.

We've heard from world number two Rory McIlroy after his round and this is the first time he's talked about the Bryson DeChambeau incident on the fifth hole during round two on Friday.

He told BBC Sport: "I was watching the golf live in the locker room with a few other players and when he did what he did, we all looked at each other and said that didn’t look right."

Stephen Warnock
Former England defender on BBC Radio 5 Live at Royal Birkdale

What I've been mightily impressed with the pros so far is how calm and relaxed they are.

They don't worry about waiting. Us amateurs want to grab a club and just play.

Tommy Fleetwood is 70-odd feet from the 10th hole in two and the main objective is to get down in two from there, which he does.

Jon Rahm's birdie try is from much closer in, maybe 20 feet, but the Spaniard can only match Fleetwood's four.

Now that was a decent putt from Scottie Scheffler from almost 40 feet away on the ninth, and it tracks all the way but just pulls up a roll short when bang on line!

The defending champion turns in 33 with just the one birdie and playing pretty nicely, again just not making anything, with five foot his longest putt of the day. The stats says he's not been too hot on approach play so far too.

But five under, three off the lead, with nine holes to play is a pretty decent position to be in.

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Kim Si-woo comes to the party! His brilliant tee shot on the par-three seventh comes to rest five feet from the flag and it's a birdie two for the man from South Korea.

Now he's in the growing group of players just one shot off Ryan Fox's lead.

The group of players clustered below Ryan Fox is swelling.

Very tidily played fifth hole from Cameron Young as he lays up off the tee then pops his chip over the bunker to four feet.

A composed birdie putt later and he's into a share of second.

Bob MacIntyre hasn't been great off the tee yet today and once again he's into the rough at the eighth.

He stays in the long grass after his second shot but chips out superbly to four feet and knocks it in for par.

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Another unconvincing swing from Lucas Herbert at the fourth leaves him short-sided to the right of the green, but he bumps his chip into the bank and leaves himself an eight-footer for par.

And he makes that one! An important save.

Jackson Suber, playing the percentages, fires to the left portion of the green and lags down to three feet before tidying up for par.

Birdie hole next.

It's just a touch clumsy from Bryson DeChambeau with his chip on the fifth, too much pace and landed a yard too far to get an extra speed bump so it races 15 feet past. The birdie chance is no good so it's just a four.

Sam Burns had the pace on his birdie try from a similar length but just not the line as it wandered off to his right.

Burns looks pretty calm despite playing in this high-profile pairing - and remember, he wasn't suppoed to be here this week as his wife Caroline was due Tursday of Open week, but baby Belle arrived 11 days early so here he is!

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport golf reporter at Royal Birkdale

Not seen a larger group of journalists trailing a group than the one trailing DeChambeau and Burns today.

I’d say there are 20-25 reporters and broadcasters hot on their heels, watching every move of the players - and their own step.

The singed fescue and the scorched dunes are treacherous under foot.

Any stumble and fall will be lapped up by the punters.