With each parts of his crippled operating efficiently, Lowry started with 2 pars earlier reeling disconnected a hat-trick of birdies from the third.
After a par connected the sixth, the 2019 Open champion drained a 24-foot putt for a birdie 2 connected the adjacent and closed retired his beforehand 9 with 2 much birdies to crook successful six-under 30.
Lowry, who has not won an idiosyncratic rubric successful 4 years, scrambled for a par 5 astatine 10 erstwhile helium hacked retired of agelong unsmooth earlier holing a 10-footer.
Birdies astatine 11 and 12 ignited hopes of a 59 astatine the par-70 venue earlier a sloppy bogey connected 13 erstwhile helium three-putted from 18 feet.
But the satellite fig 53, who attracted ample galleries astir the spectacular links course, rolled successful a 19-footer for birdie astatine 15 to instrumentality to -11 earlier finishing with 3 pars.
"I thought astir it," Lowry, who has not returned a top-20 decorativeness since February, said erstwhile asked if a sub-60 circular entered his mind.
"Yeah, I did deliberation astir it until I three-putted 13. No, I did person a small laugh. Out successful 30 and the backmost 9 is lone 34, so, yeah, you bash benignant of deliberation astir it a small bit."
He added: "I cognize I made a small mistake connected 13, but I deliberation I did a bully occupation aft that of playing the remainder of the circular truly good and giving myself a mates of chances connected the mode in."
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