The sides of the shuttle buses ferrying Open fans to Royal Birkdale are plastered with a representation of Tommy Fleetwood holding the Claret Jug.
Everyone knows it is an AI-generated image.
It is besides a practice of the imaginativeness which has been successful Fleetwood's caput ever since helium was a tiny Southport kid, who occasionally utilized to sneak implicit the obstruction astatine the iconic course.
The world is the 35-year-old Englishman has ne'er got his mitts connected the iconic trophy.
He inactive mightiness yet bash that connected Sunday, but his hopes were acceptable backmost connected Saturday by a mates of precocious bogeys successful a third-round 69.
Fleetwood is 5 shots adrift of American Sam Burns, who carded a five-under 65 and holds a two-shot vantage implicit New Zealand's Ryan Fox and South Korea's Kim Si-woo going into the last round.
American superstar Bryson DeChambeau remains successful the premix aft shooting a one-under 69, 4 down Burns aft seeing 2 shots dramatically docked connected Friday.
Two-time US Open champion DeChambeau is the lone subordinate wrong the apical 10 with the acquisition of winning a large and a choky leaderboard means it is an unfastened Open going into Sunday's finale.
Home favourite Fleetwood mightiness person seen his situation falter, but helium has not stopped dreaming.
"I've done it astir days since I was 7 years aged and it inactive hasn't stopped," helium said.
"That's what life's about, right? You daydream and you imagination astir the biggest things possible. Then you effort and marque it a reality."
More to follow.
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