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Amateur: Growing up in South Korea and Australia, Jin Jeong was fascinated by links golf and wondered how he’d fare in conditions so different from what he was used to playing in. Pretty well, thank you. The 20-year-old amateur is tied for 12th going into today’s final round at the British Open. At 4 under, he’s 11 strokes behind leader Louis Oosthuizen, but only three from fourth place. Justin Rose (fourth, 1998) and Chris Wood (fifth, 2008) are the only amateurs to manage top-five finishes recently. “Not great. Not too bad,” Jeong said after his 2-over 74 Saturday. “I had [some] disappointing shots and putts. But I had some good shots, as well.”

Losing it: Mark Calcavecchia assumed he had lost his ball. Then he assumed someone had found it. The search turned into a fiasco on the par-5 ninth hole and derailed his round. The 1989 British Open champion, who began Saturday in second place, took a quadruple-bogey 9 after being assessed two penalties worth three shots over a ball that disappeared into a gorse bush. “It was unfortunate for Calc there,” playing partner Louis Oosthuizen said. “He had a tough few holes.” Calcavecchia’s drive landed in a bunker, and he had to play out sideways. His third shot, from the fairway, sailed right and disappeared into the gorse. Thinking the ball was lost, Calcavecchia played a provisional and then went to search for the first ball. Told his ball had been found, Calcavecchia picked up the provisional. But then he discovered the found ball wasn’t his, and he wasn’t able to locate it before the five-minute limit expired. That meant Calcavecchia took the stroke-and-distance penalty (two shots) under the lost-ball rule, and lost another stroke on the penalty for lifting a provisional without authority.

Associated Press