'Disappointed' Lowry: I have no chance now | Fleetwood: Special to be in it

A self-critical Shane Lowry admitted he was "as disappointed as I've been in a long time" after struggling to capitalise on successive eagles with a lacklustre back nine on day three at The 150th Open.

Huge Irish support for the 2019 Open champion was rewarded with one of the periods of the day when their man eagled the ninth and 10th holes to close in on the frontrunners.

That flurry, however, had anything but the desired effect as he weaved three bogeys between five par holes over the next seven before restoring some order with a birdie to close out on the 18th.

It would leave him seven under and ruing what might have been.

"It was pretty cool, and it was good fun when those two went in," said Lowry. "But the rest of the day wasn't so enjoyable.

"Look, I feel like I played okay, but I don't think it - wouldn't take Einstein to figure out what went wrong on the back nine. My putting was horrific.

"I'm so disappointed to be honest because I worked so hard, and I work so hard to get myself in those positions, and I'm as disappointed as I've been in a long time.

"To be honest, I wasn't going to come in here, but it's just hard. You feel like you're there, like you've got a good chance. I shoot one-under for the last seven holes and I'm very bullish about my chances going into tomorrow. Now I have no chance. It's just very disappointing."

Despite the setback, Lowry maintains he believes he is still playing well enough, which is perhaps the root of his frustration heading into Sunday.

"My game has been good enough all week," he said. "To be honest, I think it's a credit to my game the way I fought to be top 20 going into Sunday around here.

"So, yeah, I'm fairly bullish about if I do figure something out, I could shoot a