Sam Burns and J.J. Spaun took turns trading the lead, sharing the lead and just being in the from the start to the finish of Round 3 of the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n
On a day when very few players went under par \u2014 just 12 of 66 \u2014 both Burns and Spaun not only avoided disaster, but held serve.<\/p>\n
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Burns had a one-stroke lead going into Round 3, and he’ll take a one-stroke lead into Sunday at -4<\/p>\n
Spaun had a slight bobble at 18, a bogey, to drop him to -3.<\/p>\n
After three rounds, just four players remain under par as this U.S. Open turns to Sunday.<\/p>\n
Adam Scott, the 44-year-old who never seems to age, is one of them. Twelve years after claiming his lone major, he’s very much in contention at Oakmont, sitting at -3. He’ll be in the final pairing with Burns.<\/p>\n
The only other player in red numbers if Viktor Hovland, who was once considered a “next big thing” but has not lived up to those expectations as of late. He’s at -1, no thanks to a bogey at 18, but he’ll take it.<\/p>\n
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World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler never got it going on Saturday, firing an even-par round to remain at +4. But this will tell you something \u2014 +4 is good enough to be tied for 11th.<\/p>\n
Is he too far back? Well, you might have heard that way back in 1973, Johnny Miller fired a final round 63 to win at Oakmont. He started that day six back. So yeah, there’s a chance on this course, which can produce some mighty swings on the scoreboard in very short order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Burns and J.J. Spaun took turns trading the lead, sharing the lead and just being in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[5262,73921,68545,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-185521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-adam-scott","9":"tag-j-j-spaun","10":"tag-sam-burns","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114685616190613111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}