The wind is rising, as are the scores on Sunday at Carnoustie

The 147th Open leaderboard https://www.theopen.com/Leaderboard#!/traditional

If you are just getting up, the sun is shining for this Sunday at the 147th Open, and as predicted the wind has finally arrived at Carnoustie just in time for the leaders, blowing at 25kph, after starting early this morning as a little breeze.

The best score of the day so far has been posted by Jason Day, -3 68 who ran off 3 in a row at 13,14 and 15 but made bogey at the very tough par 18th.

Setting the scene

At my count there are 16 players within five shots of leaders Jordan Spieth, Kevin Kisner and Xander Schauffele all at -9.

Spieth, the defending champion and Schauffele are off last with Kisner and long shot Kevin Chappell (-7) whose best finish here is T53 in the penultimate pairing.

At -6 there is in form Italian Francesco Molinari with 2 wins and 2 runner-ups in his last 5 outings but just 1 top 10 at the Open and he's got to contend with all the hoopla of playing with Tiger (-5).

Tommy Fleetwood is paired with Zach Johnson next, both at -5, then Webb Simpson and Alex Noren  also -5. Rory McIlroy (-5) is with Matt Kuchar (-4) who was 2nd last year.

Justin Rose shot 64 on Saturday but he's at -4 along with Adam Scott, a little to far back.

My opinion

With the wind blowing and the R&A setting some diabolical pins any score under par is possible, but -9 or less will be the winning score. For example yesterday players were driving the first green, today it's a 4 iron second. There has never been a winning score in double digits at Carnoustie.

For all you Tiger fans, I think he's not just too far back at -5, there are also too many players in front of him, and one or more of them is going to play well enough to win it.

It looks like another playoff to me, and until someone takes the trophy from him, I'll pick Jordan Spieth to defend.

Bryan Angus