Adam Scott in competition, hunts second main title, Rory McIlroy flops

Australia’s Adam Scott is one shot off the lead after the third spherical of the US Open after he fired the equal greatest spherical of the day courtesy of a again 9 birdie blitz at Oakmont.

The 44-year-old shot a three-under par spherical of 67, matched solely by Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz, to maneuver to -3 general after consecutive rounds of 70 to begin the event, sizzling on the heels of chief Sam Burns (-4).

Scott will be a part of Burns within the last group on Monday morning Australian time after first spherical chief J.J. Spaun bogeyed the final to slide again to -3.

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The 2013 Masters champion strung collectively back-to-back birdies at 13 and 14 adopted by one other at 17, which lifted him to a share of the lead till Burns and Spaun each made birdies on the identical gap within the group behind.

Scott hit a cracking tee shot on the par 3 thirteenth to have lower than 5 toes for the outlet, after which performed one of many photographs of the day along with his strategy into the par 4 14th, flying it previous the outlet, spinning it again and virtually holing-out to go away a tap-in.

The brief par 4 seventeenth is gettable, and he capitalised by draining a near-15 footer to cap off an amazing up-and-down kind a greenside bunker.

Scott made made bogey on the first gap, however recovered with birdie on the fourth gap to return to even par, the place he remained till the thirteenth as he rattled off eight straight pars, enjoying the “previous man par golf” he joked about yesterday.

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Fellow Australian Marc Leishman (+4) held low spherical of the day of the honours for a number of hours earlier than Scott and Ortiz pipped him.

Leishman fired a two-under par 68, which Englishman Tyrell Hatton (+1) matched later within the day.

Viktor Hovland (-1) is one other contender as he shot an excellent par spherical of 70 enjoying alongside Scott.

The Norwegian made birdies both aspect of the flip, together with a curling 18-footer at ten, made one other birdie at 17 however dropped a shot at 18 that might be pricey.

There have been loads of horror reveals all through the sphere once more, however none worse that Australian Cam Davis’ (+19) nightmare spherical as he shot a 12-over par 82.

Jason Day (+5), in the meantime, struggled to maintain tempo as he adopted up his second spherical 67 with a 72.

The previous world No.1 offered probably the greatest moments of the day as he got here inside an inch of constructing a hole-in-one at Oakmont’s infamous 253-yard par-three eighth.

Rory McIlroy solely discovered extra distress at rain-soaked Oakmont.

McIlroy made bogeys on three of his final 5 holes to fireplace a four-over par 74 and stand on 10-over, 13 strokes adrift.

“I hoped to play higher, however I didn’t,” McIlroy mentioned, calling his event “fairly common” as far as he broke his media silence.

“The secret this week is staying affected person, and attempt to do a very good job of it on the market,” McIlroy mentioned.

“Nevertheless it’s a type of golf programs which you could lose endurance on fairly rapidly.”

McIlroy, who accomplished a profession Grand Slam by profitable the Masters for his fifth main title, missed a seven-foot putt to bogey the third gap and took a penalty drop resulting in a bogey at 9.

He dropped his strategy inside 4 toes to arrange a birdie on the tenth however discovered a greenside bunker at 11 and made bogey then lipped out from inside 4 toes to bogey 14 and missed the inexperienced on the par-three sixteenth on the best way to bogey.

McIlroy discovered a greenside bunker off the seventeenth tee however blasted out inches from the outlet and tapped in for birdie, solely to search out the best tough off the 18th tee on the best way to bogey.

Requested what he seemed for on Sunday, McIlroy mentioned, “Hopefully a spherical in below 4 and a half hours and get out of right here.”

– Scheffler holds agency –

Third-ranked American Xander Schauffele, the reigning British Open champion, fired a 71 to face on seven-over 217.

High-ranked Scottie Scheffler, in search of back-to-back main titles after taking final month’s PGA Championship, had two birdies and three bogeys in his first 9 holes to fall to five-over.

Scheffler opened with a three-putt bogey, dropped in a 13-foot birdie putt on the best aspect of the outlet at two, curved in a 19-foot birdie putt on the par-three sixth however made a three-putt bogey on the par-three eighth and a bogey at 9 after a penalty drop.

However the world No.1 clawed his manner again with birdies on the par 5 twelfth and the par 4 seventeenth taking him again to even par for the day, finally signing off on a spherical of 70 to stay at +4 general.

Two-time main winner Jon Rahm of Spain sank a birdie putt from simply inside 14 toes on the second, made bogey at three after discovering a fairway bunker, then sank a 23-foot birdie putt on the par-three eighth to face on +3 for the event.

That quantity, and seemingly Rahm’s hopes, blew out on the again 9 with poor chipping and placing resulting in a bogey on the tenth and a double bogey on the fifteenth.

There have been shiny spots, Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre amongst them. The reigning Scottish Open champion birdied the second on a 12-foot putt and the sixth from 19 toes on his option to a spherical of 69 that took him to +3 general.

Denmark’s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen reeled off 4 consecutive birdies on the entrance 9 and he stands at +2 after a spherical of 69.

FINAL ROUND US OPEN TEE TIMES (AEST)

9:52 PM

Cam Davis

10:03 PM

Matthieu Pavon

Jordan Smith

10:14 PM

Hideki Matsuyama

Harris English

10:25 PM

Ryan McCormick

Taylor Pendrith

10:36 PM

Johnny Keefer

Michael Kim

10:47 PM

James Nicholas

Brian Harman

10:58 PM

Philip Barbaree, Jr.

Sungjae Im

11:14 PM

Niklas Norgaard

Denny McCarthy

11:25 PM

Daniel Berger

Tony Finau

11:36 PM

Rory McIlroy

Andrew Novak

11:47 PM

Adam Schenk

Mackenzie Hughes

11:58 PM

Justin Hastings (a)

Matt Fitzpatrick

Monday

12:09 AM

Collin Morikawa

Rasmus Højgaard

12:20 AM

Ryan Fox

Corey Conners

12:36 AM

Patrick Reed

Laurie Canter

12:47 AM

Jon Rahm

Tom Kim

12:58 AM

Maverick McNealy

Xander Schauffele

1:09 AM

Si Woo Kim

Jhonattan Vegas

1:20 AM

Aaron Rai

Trevor Cone

1:31 AM

Jordan Spieth

J.T. Poston

1:42 AM

Brooks Koepka

Thomas Detry

1:58 AM

Jason Day

Chris Kirk

2:09 AM

Keegan Bradley

Sam Stevens

2:20 AM

Matt Wallace

Ryan Gerard

2:31 AM

Ben Griffin

Victor Perez

2:42 AM

Russell Henley

Emiliano Grillo

2:53 AM

Max Greyserman

Christiaan Bezuidenhout

3:04 AM

Nick Taylor

Scottie Scheffler

3:20 AM

Chris Gotterup

Marc Leishman

3:31 AM

Cameron Younger

Robert MacIntyre

3:42 AM

Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen

Thriston Lawrence

3:53 AM

Tyrrell Hatton

Carlos Ortiz

4:04 AM

Viktor Hovland

J.J. Spaun

4:15 AM

Adam Scott

Sam Burns