British Open - Scottie Scheffler takes a commanding lead heading into Sunday
Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee recaps Saturday's action at Royal Portrush - where the world’s top-ranked golfer extended his lead heading into the final day.
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Rory McIlroy drew one of the great gallery roars of his life on Saturday at the British Open.
Matt Fitzpatrick once again held a miraculous eagle chip.
Chris Godderup and defending champion Xander Schauffele charged at the leaderboard.
We even got a smile out of Tyrrell Hatton after a brilliant eagle of his own.
And none of it mattered a bit because Scottie Scheffler continued his relentless assault on Royal Portrush.
The world number one finished Saturday with a four-shot lead on the field after carding a 400 bogey round to stand at -14 for the tournament.
Now Haotong Lee at -10 will be in the final pairing alongside Scheffler and right behind them at -9 is Fitzpatrick, who stumbled late with three bogeys on the back nine on Saturday.
The wildest frown of the day, though, belonged to the hometown kid.
McIlroy birdied three of his first four and carded an eagle on 12 that shook all of Northern Ireland.
And he also somehow managed to unearth a second ball when firing from the rough on 11.
And then a kid grabbed this ball and it rolled into the gallery along 17, just a normal day for the number two player in the world who wracked his day at -8.
But the story of Royal Portrush continues to be Scheffler, who is now just 18 holes from his second major of the year, the third leg of the career Grand Slam, and his fourth major overall.
Now we don't want to say that this is a done deal, but the British Open's engraver has already started carving S's into the Claret Jug.
For Yahoo Sports, I'm Jay Busby.
