Leading amateur Rory McIlroy is among the early starters in the Sunday morning rain and he opens with a par at the first And the Northern Ireland teenager sinks a birdie on the last as he wins the silver medal as the lowest scoring amateur It is fairly lashing it down on the east coast of Scotland and Scott Verplank is suffering, dropping six shots in nine holes The heavy rain turns to light drizzle as Tiger Woods' charge starts with birdies at four and five to move to three under Sergio Garcia, leader by three, strolls down the first after a perfect tee shot as he looks to win his first major Ernie Els sinks three birdies in his opening six holes but his threat never really materialises and he finishes five under Sunday's biggest mover is Australia's Richard Green who equals the course record with a 64 to also finish five under Woods' challenge stutters with bogeys on eight and 11 and despite two birdies on the back nine, he finishes two under Argentina's Andres Romero makes a charge but a double-bogey at 12 checks his progress Garcia, meanwhile, shows the first signs of frailty with bogeys at five, seven and eight to drop him back to seven under Steve Stricker fails to repeat his third-round form and drops a shot on the outward nine, eventually finishing three under Ireland's Padraig Harrington is going about his work quietly, but nudges in four birdies to creep onto seven under Romero bounces back with four successive birdies but drops three shots on 17 and 18 to end his challenge on six under Garcia battles back with a string of four pars before birdies on 12 and 13 move him back to nine under par Harrington continues on his steady way and knocks in an eagle putt on 14 to join Garcia at the top of the leaderboard However, Harrington visits the Barry Burn on the 18th twice to double-bogey and card a 67 for a seven under finish Garcia needs a par on the last to win, but slides an eight-foot putt wide to set up a four-hole play-off with Harrington The first play-off hole sees Garcia make five after finding the greenside bunker, while Harrington sinks a birdie putt Harrington takes his two-shot lead through 16 and 17 and sinks a four-foot bogey putt on 18 to win The Open And all that is left is for Harrington to be officially named as "Champion Golfer for the Year" and pick up the Claret Jug
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Highlights: The Open play-off
