Dan Brown and Justin Rose have the appetite to change history after they emerged from attritional with their dreams of becoming The Open champion alive.
Though Billy Horschel, the American West Ham fan, leads the field going into the final round on four-under-par, Brown and Rose are primed to mount a challenge from one shot back as they attempt to become the first Englishman since Nick Faldo in 1992 to lift the Claret Jug.
Brown led as he stepped onto the final tee of a turbulent Troon day but a double-bogey six saw him card a 73; that was the same score as Rose, who evoked memories of Faldo at Muirfield in 1987 when shooting 11 straight pars from the eighth in desperate conditions.