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The ultimate stroke of the day is made by Sam Burns. He makes his par putt, he stays certainly one of simply two gamers but to three-putt this week – Ryan Fox is the opposite – and he’s bought sole possession of the lead going into the ultimate spherical. A 69 for Burns, which is precisely what his enjoying companion JJ Spaun shot as effectively.

Burns – who has but to make a three-putt this week, trumpets a well timed NBC graphic – tickles his 60-foot downhill right-to-left swinger to 4 toes. Again over to Spaun, who faces a 21-foot right-to-left slider. It’s by no means getting there, nevertheless it’s ok for bogey.

Spaun whips out of the high-faced bunker. He can’t see the flag. He misjudges the space, leaving the ball midway. That’ll be a protracted putt for his par.

Spaun to go first. He takes a tough swipe at his ball and sends it into the bunker guarding the entrance proper of the inexperienced. He’ll have a protracted shot to the flag out of that. Over to Burns, who has to hammer exhausting as effectively. He finds the inexperienced, however he’ll have a tough downhill putt from 40 toes to barter. Pars removed from sure.

JJ Spaun and Sam Burns each ship their tee photographs at 18 broad proper. Spaun’s is wilder, however that’s to his profit, because it hits a punter – no injury performed, fortunately, and the younger lady is delighted with the signed glove she receives – and lands on some trodden-down grass. Burns is most actually within the thicker stuff, although his ball hasn’t disappeared altogether.

Viktor Hovland’s putt is at all times lacking to the left. The tee shot at fault. A bogey to complete. However that’s a tremendous 70, and he’ll be within the penultimate group tomorrow, until JJ Spaun and Sam Burns have some kind of collective breakdown. Adam Scott then tidies up for his par, and that’s a beautiful spherical of 67. Again in 32. A good probability they’ll each go spherical collectively once more tomorrow.

-4: Burns (17), Spaun (17)
-3: Scott (F)
-1: Hovland (F)

Viktor Hovland takes his medication out of the green bunker at 18, then screws a chip from 120 yards to fifteen toes. A tremendous effort that had just a bit an excessive amount of backspin. In the meantime Adam Scott finds the centre of the inexperienced, albeit nowhere close to the flag. He’s not removed from draining the 53-foot putt that he’s left with, nevertheless it doesn’t drop. He’s bought a three-footer coming again for his par. Again over to Viktor.

It’s a depressing finish to Ben Griffin’s depressing again 9. A double-bogey six on 18. That’s three bogeys and a double within the final 5 holes. He indicators for a 74 that promised a lot extra. He’s +4.

Sure he can! JJ Spaun rattles in a 25-footer to match Sam Burns’s birdie. Each gamers transfer one away from Adam Scott once more.

-4: Burns (17), Spaun (17)
-3: Scott (17)
-2: Hovland (17)
E: Ortiz (F)

Sam Burns fires a low wedge into 17. It whistles nine-tenths of the best way alongside its route, earlier than gripping and rolling out serenely to tap-in distance. That’s a stunner. He’ll be transferring again to -4 within the bounce-back type. JJ Spaun in the meantime splashes out from the bunker within the underwhelming method Adam Scott displayed moments earlier. Can Spaun make an enormous putt like Scott did?

Adam Scott splits the 18th fairway. Viktor Hovland nonetheless slices into sand down the fitting. In the meantime again on 17, JJ Spaun finds the bunker entrance proper of the inexperienced, whereas Sam Burns lays up.

Adam Scott in the meantime has discovered a bunker to the fitting of 17. His splash out is uncharacteristically clumpish, touchdown like a moist flannel 15 toes in need of the flag. Regardless of! He strokes within the birdie putt and joins the leaders at -3! Viktor Hovland then tidies up, and he’s scorching on their tail at -2.

Viktor Hovland carves his tee shot at 17 miles broad proper of the inexperienced. He suggests it may be the worst shot he’s ever hit. His ball disappears into the thick stuff … however not completely, and he’s assured of getting it shut. He whips his lob wedge miles into the air, and lands his ball softly, three toes away from the opening. Seve can be pleased with that! The gang go wild. That’s outrageously good, from the preposterous to the chic.

Sam Burns and JJ Spaun each depart their lengthy first putts on 16 six toes quick. Spaun makes the one he leaves himself; Burns misreads his, although, lacking it to the left. All tied once more! In the meantime Thriston Lawrence almost drains his lengthy par putt, however settles for a tap-in for bogey and a spherical of 70. He’s +1.

-3: Spaun (16), Burns (16)
-2: Scott (16)
-1: Hovland (16)
E: Ortiz (F)
+1: Hatton (F), Lawrence (F)

Ben Griffin places an finish to his bogey run with birdie at 17. He’s +2 once more and all of a sudden in higher form forward of tomorrow. Up on 18, bother for Thriston Lawrence, who lashes out of the thick tough together with his 9-wood and may be very lucky to get his ball over the large bunker 60 yards in entrance of the inexperienced. His ball ends 40 toes away, and in making an attempt to bump up onto the inexperienced, he chunks his wedge. He’s left with a 35-footer for his par.

Sam Burns splashes out from the sand on 15 to kick-in distance. That’s a tremendous save. JJ Spaun’s birdie putt by no means appears like dropping. He’s made subsequent to nothing with the flat stick right now. A disgrace, as a result of a lot of his method play has deserved extra. Each males then get themselves onto the sixteenth inexperienced, however like Scott and Hovland earlier than them, neither are shut.

Adam Scott and Viktor Hovland discover the dancefloor of the par-three sixteenth, however neither are significantly shut. Par apiece it’s, then. In the meantime up on 18, Brooks Koepka finishes with bogey for a spherical of 73 that by no means, ever threatened to get going. Nonetheless a bit of labor to do to get again to his pomp. He’s +5.

Thriston Lawrence doesn’t join together with his tee shot at 17 correctly in any respect. He screams for it to decelerate, as a result of he thinks it’s heading for thick tough. The truth is it stops in entrance of the inexperienced on the quick stuff. He wedges from 44 yards to 3 toes and tidies up for a birdie that brings him again to stage par. However he’s simply dumped his drive at 18 into the cabbage down the fitting, from the place he’ll have to put up.

Sam Burns goes for a excessive fade into the fifteenth inexperienced. He doesn’t get the form he needs, and the ball settles in a bunker to the left. JJ Spaun nonetheless lasers one straight on the flag. He’ll have a 25-foot uphill search for birdie. In the meantime up on 16, Ben Griffin, working scorching, his cheeks flush, opens the face of his putter and sends a six-footer broad left. That’s a 3rd bogey in a row, and he’s unravelling within the incorrect course at pace. He’s +3.

Adam Scott slashes sensationally out of the deep bunker to the fitting of 15. He’s bought no inexperienced to play with, so opens the membership broad and swings exhausting. The ball loops excessive into the air and lands a few toes from the cup. What a par save that’s. And that’s a sentence that additionally applies to Viktor Hovland, as a result of, expensive reader, I did not inform you all the story of his getting the ball to the perimeter. He’d discovered sand off the tee, you see, and needed to chip out, so he’s there in three. Regardless of! He bumps his putt by means of the perimeter and holes the right-to-left drifter for an outrageous save! The kind of second that makes you consider it might be your 12 months.

-4: Burns (14)
-3: Spaun (14)
-2: Scott (15)
-1: Hovland (15)

Adam Scott compounds his error from the tee on 15 by carving his second shot into the large bunker to the fitting of the inexperienced. With the pin tucked over on that facet, he’s bought work to do from there. His enjoying companion Viktor Hovland sends his method onto the perimeter. Again down the opening, the main pair each discover the green with their drives.

JJ Spaun can’t make his birdie putt on 14. Sam Burns makes his par effort, although. In the meantime Ben Griffin follows up his three-putt error on 14 by failing to stand up and down from a greenside bunker on 15. Again-to-back bogeys at simply the incorrect time. He’s +2.

Adam Scott’s smile crumples right into a grimace as he pushes his tee shot at 15 into tough down the fitting. In the meantime again on 14, Sam Burns finds a fairway bunker and is pressured to chip out, however provides himself an awesome probability of escaping with par by wedging his third pin excessive to 10 toes. JJ Spaun shall be placing from an identical distance, however he’s there in two.

It’s back-to-back birdies for Adam Scott! The 2013 Masters champ sends his method from 94 yards bounding previous the flag, the ball gripping and spinning again, almost into the cup, 14 inches away. He faucets in and walks off smiling extensively. The 44-year-old Aussie is severely within the hunt for his second main.

-4: Burns (13)
-3: Spuan (13)
-2: Scott (14)
-1: Hovland (14)
E: Ortiz (F)
+1: Hatton (F), Lawrence (15), Griffin (14)

Tyrrell Hatton finds a bunker down the fitting of 18. He’s pressured to put up, however isn’t of a thoughts to offer something away on the ultimate gap. He sends his second over the flag and screws it again to 3 toes, and tidies up for the par. He’ll be glad together with his response to that double on 15, and together with his spherical of 68. He’s within the combine tomorrow all proper!

JJ Spaun provides his 25-foot birdie effort a great take a look at the opening. However it stops simply quick. Par. And that opens the door for Sam Burns, who doesn’t faff about earlier than strolling in his seven-footer. For the primary time because the 4th, there’s some separation on the prime!

-4: Burns (13)
-3: Spaun (13)

Sam Burns plops his tee shot on the par-three thirteenth seven toes away. JJ Spaun finds the dancefloor as effectively, however he’s nowhere close to as shut. Slight benefit to Burns there. In the meantime over on 14, Ben Griffin races an excitable lengthy birdie effort eight toes previous the flag, and it prices him. He misses the one coming again, and he slips to +1.

Viktor Hovland sends his tee shot at 13 over the flag to fifteen toes. His birdie putt coming again is at all times staying excessive on the left. It rolls three toes previous however that’s ok for par. His enjoying companion Adam Scott’s tee shot is even higher, although. It lands ten toes to the fitting of the flag and works its manner again to 4 toes. He tickles within the downhill birdie putt, and he strikes into pink figures alongside Hovland. In the meantime the leaders maintain parring on.

-3: Spaun (12), Burns (12)
-1: Hovland (13), Scott (13)
E: Ortiz (F), Lawrence (14), Griffin (13)
+1: Hatton (17)

One of many photographs of the day at 17 by Tyrrell Hatton, who sends his tee shot on the drivable par-four pin excessive to 30 toes. He can’t rake residence the eagle putt – it lips out agonisingly – however birdie will do, and a number of the injury of 15 has been repaired. He’s again to +1. In the meantime on 13, Ben Griffin walks in a 20-footer for his second birdie in three holes.

-3: Spaun (11), Burns (11)
-1: Hovland (12)
E: Ortiz (F), Lawrence (14), Griffin (13), Scott (12)
+1: Hatton (17)

Carlos Ortiz’s enjoying companion Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen had a great day as effectively. A 69 that ensures the younger Dane shall be a part of the story tomorrow on his US Open debut. In the meantime the main pair of JJ Spaun and Sam Burns each par 11 with out an excessive amount of fuss. They’re not precisely ripping up the course … however then they don’t should. In the event that they maintain their place, there gained’t be too many gamers in a position to come at them.

-3: Spaun (11), Burns (11)
-1: Hovland (11)
E: Ortiz (F), Lawrence (13), Scott (11)
+1: B Griffin (12)
+2: Neergaard-Petersen (F), Hatton (16), Henley (13)

Carlos Ortiz sends his tee shot at 18 into the thick stuff down the fitting. He will get an honest sufficient lie, however doesn’t take benefit, sending his second right into a greenside bunker to the left. He swishes out to 6 toes, however misses the par putt on the excessive facet. That’s his first and solely blemish of the day, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a tremendous, tremendous 67 that places the 34-year-old Mexican proper within the combine! He’s stage par, the brand new clubhouse chief.

Tyrrell Hatton is a dimple away from bounce-back birdie on the par-three sixteenth. He lasers his tee shot to fifteen toes, however the birdie putt dies to the fitting on its final flip. He squats in frustration, and stays at +2.

Ben Griffin walks in a 20-footer on 11 and strikes again to +1. Birdie for Thriston Lawrence on the par-five twelfth. Up on the quick par-four seventeenth, Carlos Ortiz whistles his tee shot into the perimeter, then chips to 6 toes, however races his birdie putt by means of the break. That’s careless. And there are no-nonsense pars for the leaders JJ Spaun and Sam Burns on 10, and Viktor Hovland and Adam Scott on 11.

-3: Spaun (10), Burns (10)
-1: Ortiz (17), Hovland (11)
E: Lawrence (12), Scott (11)
+1: B Griffin (11)

Tyrell Hatton comes a cropper on 15. From the centre of the green, he carves his method in the direction of a greenside bunker on the fitting. The truth is it sticks on the financial institution, and he’s pressured to grip midway down the shaft, toes within the bunker, ball manner above them, and whip onto the inexperienced. Having been short-sided, he can’t cease the ball, and it rolls 40 toes by. Three putts later, that’s a double, and he’s furious. Fuming with somebody within the gallery? Or suggesting he had the misfortune of a mud-ball on the green, the foundation of all of the trouble? Both manner, he’s tumbled down the standings to +2.

Viktor Hovland has rediscovered his mojo. He sends a forensic method straight on the flag on 10. It ought to certain shut, however stubbornly digs its heels in, stopping 18 toes quick. Regardless of! He pours within the birdie putt, and all of a sudden all of the injury of the primary three holes is repaired in brief order. This can be a severely spectacular response to these early travails.

-3: Spaun (9), Burns (9)
-1: Ortiz (16), Hovland (10)
E: Hatton (14), Scott (10)
+1: Lawrence (11)

A horrible break for JJ Spaun on 9. He splits the green together with his tee shot … just for his ball to nestle gently in an enormous divot. However he’s so unshakable. He calmly whips his second into the guts of the inexperienced, and although he’s left with a monster putt throughout a ridged inexperienced, he lags as much as kick-in distance. A possible catastrophe averted. In the long run, a fuss-free par. A show of the kind of moxie that wins majors.

Cameron Younger, who has had 5 top-ten finishes within the majors, however someway is but to win any occasion on the PGA Tour, would break his duck spectacularly had been he to win right here. He’s given himself an opportunity, carding 69 right now and becoming a member of Bob MacIntyre within the clubhouse lead at +3.

Viktor Hovland makes his birdie putt on 9. The least his method deserved. He’s responded so effectively to that shaky bush-bothering begin.

-3: Spaun (8), Burns (8)
-1: Ortiz (15)
E: Hatton (14), Scott (9), Hovland (9)

Par for Scottie Scheffler on the final. The world primary indicators for a 70, and he finishes the day at +4 general. He’s presently seven strokes behind the leaders. Hey, something Arnold Palmer can do …

“You’re lifeless,” scoffed golf author Bob Drum. He’d simply been requested by Arnold Palmer, two occasions a Grasp however but to land his nationwide title, if a final-round 65 might win the US Open. “Nah, you’re too far again, Arnie. That will do nothing.” Palmer threw his half-eaten cheeseburger down – it was lunch between the third and fourth rounds of the 1960 match at Cherry Hills close to Denver, the ultimate 36 holes in these days all performed on the Saturday – and left the locker room within the lofty state of excessive dudgeon.

In equity to Drum, his was an inexpensive, if barely tactless, response. Palmer got here into the Open because the favorite, recent from successful at Augusta, however he pushed his opening tee shot right into a ditch, double bogeyed the primary gap, and by no means fairly bought going. He’d putted poorly, and after three rounds was seven photographs behind the chief Mike Souchak. There have been 13 different gamers in between the 2, together with four-time winner Ben Hogan, Gary Participant, former champ Julius Boros, the pop singer Don Cherry (!) and a promising younger beginner referred to as Jack Nicklaus. Yep, Arnie was lifeless.

Besides, after all, Arnie wasn’t lifeless. Steam trailing from his lugs – “I used to be slightly indignant at Drum and his perspective,” recalled Palmer – he took to the primary tee and tried to drive the inexperienced on the quick par 4. His ball rolled to twenty toes. He didn’t make the eagle putt, however birdie was a ok begin. Come the 4th, he’d made 4 of them in a row. By the seventh, he’d made one other two, by which level he was jigging throughout the turf in a syncopated method, repeatedly tossing his visor into the air in celebration. A shot was dropped at 8, however he nonetheless reached the flip in 30 strokes, a brand new match file.

That pique-fuelled cost – adopted by one final birdie at 11 – was sufficient to land Palmer the title. Souchak, unnerved by the ear-splitting noise generated by Palmer’s gallery – which now included Drum, the participant greeting the hapless scribe on his arrival with a raised eyebrow and a wry “fancy seeing you right here!” – fell aside. Younger Nicklaus briefly held the lead however, callow and nervous, naively elected to putt over a ball mark and three putted, all momentum misplaced. Lastly Hogan, who had hit 34 out of 34 greens in regulation on the ultimate day going up 17, dumped his method in water whereas striving too exhausting to nudge forward of Palmer, then bought moist once more from the tee on the final. Palmer’s seven-shot comeback was the best in US Open historical past, the visor he launched on the ultimate inexperienced nonetheless, it’s mentioned, in orbit. Good that Arnie celebrated so effectively whereas the going was good, as a result of a mere six years later, he would, in contrast to his cap, come crashing again right down to earth.

A careless quick putt missed on 9 by Ben Griffin. He turns in 37 and stomps off the inexperienced trying a bit flushed. Some red-cheeked fury. He’s +2 for each his spherical and the championship. As soon as he clears off, Viktor Hovland arrows his method from 171 yards straight on the flag … and twangs the stick, the ball springing again and stopping seven-and-a-half toes beneath the opening. He’ll have a great take a look at birdie. Nothing’s gone proper for him right now as of but; this has the potential to be a momentum-shifter.

Tyrrell Hatton is within the zone. An 8-iron on the 177-yard par-three thirteenth. He lands it six toes previous the flag and screws it again, pin excessive, to two-and-a-half toes. In goes the birdie putt, and Hatton’s bid to grow to be solely the third English winner since Tony Jacklin in 1970 (following Justin Rose in 2013 and Matt Fitzpatrick three years in the past) is on!

-3: Spaun (7), Burns (7)
-1: Ortiz (14)
E: Hatton (13), Scott (8)

A second birdie in three holes for Tyrrell Hatton! Having birdied 10, he pours in a right-to-left slider from 20 toes on 12 to maneuver to +1. In the meantime let’s not surrender on Scottie Scheffler fairly but: he doesn’t take a shy on the drivable par-four seventeenth, as an alternative laying up after which chipping from 60 yards to 4 toes. In goes the birdie putt, and he’s +4. Not out of this by any stretch!

Carlos Ortiz manages what Adam Scott couldn’t. He wedges from 100 yards to 5 toes, pin excessive, and rolls within the straight putt for birdie. Into the pink he goes!

-3: Spaun (6), Burns (6)
-1: Ortiz (14)
E: Scott (7)
+1: Neergaard-Petersen (14), Lawrence (8), B Griffin (8), Hovland (7)
+2: Hatton (11), Henley (8)
+3: MacIntyre (F)

Adam Scott’s method at 7 is prime class, from 179 yards to four-and-a-half toes. His putt is unfortunately not. An unsure prod that’s at all times lacking on the low facet. An enormous probability to grow to be solely the third participant presently beneath par goes by. He stays at stage par.

Trevor Cone couldn’t maintain it going. The 32-year-old US Open debutant began strongly this morning with these birdies at 2, 4 and 5, however since then all of it went south for the North Carolinian. Bogeys at 8, 10, 15, 16 and 18, and he indicators for an in the end disappointing 72. He’s +6.

Some rain coming down once more. Nonetheless no menace of thunder and lightning, although, and that’s all that issues. There’s a black cloud above Thriston Lawrence’s head, thoughts, as he pulls a two-footer for par on 8. The putt horseshoes out and that’s all of his tremendous early work undone in two holes. He’s again the place he began the day at +1.

Sam Burns performs 5 to perfection. A drive down the center, then a wedge from 141 yards to a few toes. He faucets in for his birdie, and he’s again to the place he began the day.

-3: Spaun (5), Burns (5)
E: Ortiz (12), Lawrence (7), Scott (5)

Thriston Lawrence sends his second shot at 7 into the thick grass surrounding the inexperienced. He chips as much as eight toes, however can’t make the par saver, and as soon as once more there are simply two gamers beneath par for the championship. Birdie although for Carlos Ortiz, at 12, and the 34-year-old Mexican journeyman is true on this. He’s bought completely no file to talk of within the majors – 9 appearances, seven missed cuts, his greatest finishes ties for 52nd and fifty fifth – however now look!

-3: Spaun (4)
-2: Burns (4)
E: Ortiz (12), Lawrence (7), Scott (5)

A disappointing finish to Robert MacIntyre’s spherical. He finds the tough down the fitting of 18 and might’t attain the inexperienced in two. He wedges to 11 toes, however what he thinks is a left-to-right slider stays out on the excessive facet. He appears astonished, however that’s a closing bogey. Nonetheless, it’s a formidable spherical of 69, albeit one which promised extra. He’s the brand new clubhouse chief at +3.

Jordan Spieth is again within the hutch with a 71. He’s +6 general, that four-putt abomination on 15 proving so pricey. In the meantime again on 4, JJ Spaun tidies up for his birdie, and reclaims sole possession of the lead.

-3: Spaun (4)
-2: Burns (4)
-1: Lawrence (6)
E: Scott (4)

JJ Spaun’s spoken of how he lastly feels worthy of competing for the highest prizes, after his close to miss on the Gamers. That confidence increase is clear this week all proper. Coming off the again of that bogey on 3, he finds a fairway bunker to the fitting of 4. He calmly takes his medication, earlier than sending a correctly world-class wedge from 128 yards to four-and-a-half toes. Pin excessive. Nice birdie probability right here.

Thriston Lawrence actually isn’t going away. You can forgive him for slipping right into a funk after reaching -6 yesterday then carding a sequence of bogeys en path to a 74, however this is a superb response: he follows birdie at 4 with one other at 6, after knocking his tee shot to 10 toes. In the meantime Adam Scott reaches the par-five 4th in two, and two cautious putts later returns him to stage par for the match. And Bob MacIntyre finds the drivable seventeenth inexperienced from the tee, and two putts are ok for birdie. He’s +2. Par up the final, and Oban’s most interesting shall be sure of a late tee time tomorrow.

-2: Spaun (3), Burns (3)
-1: Lawrence (6)
E: B Griffin (4), Scott (4)
+1: Ortiz (10), Hovland (4)
+2: MacIntyre (17), Neergaard-Petersen (11), Henley (6)

Nothing’s fairly going proper for Brooks Koepka right now. Bogeys at 1 and three; now he powers by means of the road of an eight-foot birdie alternative at 7. He stays at +4.

Two putts for each JJ Spaun and Sam Burns. Bogey and par respectively, and the leaders are slowly dropping again in the direction of the pack. Plenty of gamers inside putting distance, particularly if these two falter this afternoon. Scottie Scheffler is +4 general by means of 14, simply saying.

-2: Burns (3), Spaun (3)
E: Lawrence (5), B Griffin (4)
+1: Ortiz (10), Scott (3), Hovland (3)

Spaun swishes out of the thick, moist tough at 3 and makes the inexperienced … however solely simply, and he’s confronted with a 40-foot putt for his par. Bogey essentially the most life like state of affairs right here. That’s the destiny that befell Viktor Hovland moments earlier – he slips to +1 – nevertheless it’s birdie for Ben Griffin at 4, and the person from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, returns to stage par.

A little bit of trouble for the chief JJ Spaun, whose drive at 3 almost finds the Church Pews down the left of the green. The ball would have been higher dropping in, as a result of it sticks on the financial institution to the facet, and Spaun has to grip down and lash at it, sitting awkwardly above his toes. He swings, and yanks the ball into additional bother down the left of the opening. Sam Burns, by comparability, hit a tee shot so wild it flew over the Church Pews and onto the 4th fairway … from the place he sends his 6-iron pin excessive. He’s taken benefit of an awesome break there.

Scottie Scheffler birdies 12, then has a run at a protracted uphill putt on 13. Yet another flip, and it might have dropped, however the greens are simply that little bit slower because of the burst of rain … which has all of a sudden stopped, and now the solar’s come out once more.

Spoke too quickly. The rain’s getting heavier. It’s heavy. No signal of any electrical exercise for the time being, although, so silver linings.