Ryan Fox has equalled the lowest round in Open Championship history with a 62 at Royal Birkdale.
The Open’s record of lowest scores listed Fox among the players to have matched the mark on 18 July, placing him alongside Branden Grace, Lucas Herbert and Sam Burns. The score came during The 154th Open and followed a remarkable two-day sequence at the Southport venue.
Grace had stood alone for nine years as the only man to shoot 62 in The Open, after recording the score in the third round at Royal Birkdale in 2017. That round was also described as the lowest in any men’s major at the time.
The mark was matched twice on 17 July, when Herbert and Burns each shot 62 in the second round. Fox then joined them the following day, adding a third new name to the Open’s 62 club at the same championship.
The sequence changed the shape of the Open record books without lowering the record itself. Grace’s once solitary achievement is now shared by four players, three of them added during The 154th Open at Birkdale.
Fox’s round also underlined Birkdale’s repeated place in the history of low Open scoring. The same venue had produced Grace’s landmark round in 2017 and then saw Herbert, Burns and Fox all reach the same number across two days in 2026.
By the end of Fox’s round, the lowest score in Open history remained 62, but the list of players to have achieved it had expanded sharply during the championship.