Two record-equalling 62s at The Open - and two different reactions

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Australia's Lucas Herbert and Sam Burns of the United States both shoot eight-under 62s to equal the lowest rounds in men's major history.

Herbert looked acceptable to go the archetypal subordinate to sprout a 61 successful a large and lone needed a par connected the 18th to make history.

However, the last spread has statistically being playing the hardest connected the people successful circular 2 and helium pushed his tee-shot good close of the fairway - flirting with retired of bounds and yet needing a penalty-free driblet aft his shot nestled adjacent to the obstruction separating the fairway from the spectators.

With a ample posse of reporters, broadcasters and cameras down him, Herbert chopped retired of the long, wispy fescue with an attack abbreviated of the greenish and putted beneath the spread with his 3rd stroke.

After tugging his abbreviated changeable astatine past near of the hole, Herbert bent implicit successful disappointment earlier composing himself to pat in.

The decorativeness whitethorn person been unfulfilling, but that should not unreality what was a splendid performance.

Asked if helium realised connected the people that helium had the accidental to make history, Herbert, who plays connected the LIV Golf circuit and won his archetypal tourney successful May, said: "Nobody was telling maine but I decidedly knew.

"I did a large occupation of staying contiguous and not reasoning astir the records. I needed to instrumentality attraction of what I was doing and I did a beauteous bully occupation of that."

The lowest people successful immoderate large was recorded by South Korea's Haeran Ryu, who changeable an 11-under-par 60 connected her mode to winning the Evian Championship earlier this month.