Shubhankar Sharma is on observe to put up the very best ever end by an Indian on the Open after competing his third spherical in a tie for ninth place at drizzly Royal Liverpool on Saturday.

The 27-year-old compiled a spherical of 70 and completed on 4 underneath par, eight strokes behind runaway chief Brian Harman.

Sharma downed a monster eagle putt on the fifth then reeled off 10 successive pars earlier than his solely dropped shot of the day.

Jyoti Randhawa holds the file for the very best consequence by an Indian on the Open, ending tied for twenty seventh at Troon in 2004.

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Sharma performed in all 4 majors in 2018, however solely survived the reduce on the Open, ending 51st.

Barring a calamitous closing spherical on Sunday he seems to be primed to higher that and surpass Randhawa’s feat.

“Very pleased with myself. I played solid. Just one shot off the top five,” he mentioned. “Played great all three days. Scrambled really well. Made a lot of crucial putts, which I wasn’t holing in the past month or so.”

Sharma, who realized play on Army programs in India courtesy of his father who was within the navy, mentioned he would simply stick with it grinding it out on Sunday.

“I’ll stick to my processes that I’ve done in the first three days, maybe make a few adjustments on things that I need to do, just go in with the same mentality that I have had for the first few days,” he mentioned.

“Tomorrow is a new day. I don’t know when the Open will be back here, so fourth round at a major, Liverpool, I’m really happy, and I’ll give it my best.”

The greatest end by an Indian participant at a males’s main is Anirban Lahiri’s tied fifth end on the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in 2015.