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Woods off to promising start as Spieth, Kisner slip in Open finale

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Tiger Woods made steady progress at the start of his final round in the British Open at Carnoustie on Sunday with two birdies in the first six holes to turn up the pressure on the leaders.

Woods picked up a birdie at the fourth and then another at the long sixth hole to climb to seven under par for the championship, just one shot behind leaders Jordan Spieth and Xander Schauffele.

The latter two had been in an overnight share of the lead at nine-under alongside Kevin Kisner, but reigning champion Spieth and Schauffele both bogeyed the fifth to drop back to eight-under.

Meanwhile, in breezy conditions on the Scottish links, Kisner got off to an awful start with a double-bogey at the second and then another dropped shot at the third.

However, he then holed out from a greenside bunker at the sixth for a birdie four to move back to seven under par.

Italy’s Francesco Molinari, playing with Woods, started solidly to sit at six-under, while England’s Eddie Pepperell was safely in the clubhouse at five-under after a four-under-par round of 67.

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