Another 62 at Birkdale as Ryan Fox matches men’s major scoring record

SOUTHPORT, England — Ryan Fox added his name Saturday to the growing list of players who share the major championship scoring record when he became the third player this week with a record-tying 62 in the British Open at Royal Birkdale.

Fox started early with barely a trace of wind and he took advantage. He went out five birdies on the front nine, and birdied two of his last three holes for 62 on the par-70 Birkdale links. Lucas Herbert and Sam Burns each had 62 some 20 minutes apart on Friday.

There now have been eight rounds of 62 in major championship history, half of them at Royal Birkdale. Branden Grace was the first to set the record with a 62 at Royal Birkdale in 2017.

The overall major record is held by South Korea’s Haeran Ryu, who shot 60 at the women’s Evian Championship earlier in July in France.

Fox, who won the RBC Canadian Open last year, was in a pot bunker off the fairway on the 18th and still managed to find the green, leaving a birdie putt of nearly 50 feet for a 61. He left it short by about five feet and holed the par putt.

–with files from Sportsnet staff