Golf-Burns takes one-shot lead over Scott and Spaun into ultimate spherical at Oakmont

OAKMONT, Pennsylvania, – Sam Burns will attempt to safe the most important win of his profession when he units off within the ultimate spherical of the U.S. Open clinging to a one-shot lead over Australian Adam Scott and J.J. Spaun at Oakmont Country Club on Sunday.

Burns, whose greatest end at one among golf’s blue-riband occasions got here eventually 12 months’s U.S. Open the place he earned a share of ninth place, has been impervious to the major-championship strain all week and now stands 18 holes away from glory.

“As a kid growing up, you dream about winning major championships and that’s why we practice so hard and work so hard,” Burns, who’s 4 below on the week and one among 4 gamers below par, mentioned after the third spherical.

“All these guys in this field I think would agree that to have the opportunity to win a major is special.”

Scott, the 2013 Masters champion and solely participant within the prime 10 after the third spherical with a significant to his identify, has flashed classic type this week with sensible ball-striking prowess.

The 44-year-old Australian, who’s the one participant this week with three rounds of par or higher, will head out within the ultimate pairing with Burns at 2:15 p.m. ET .

“It would be super fulfilling,” Scott mentioned after the third spherical when requested concerning the concept of claiming a second main so late in his profession. “It would be a hell of a round of golf and an exclamation point on my career.”

A win for Scott would break the report for longest time between a participant profitable his first and second majors. The present mark of 11 years is shared by Julius Boros and Ben Crenshaw .

J.J. Spaun, who had a share of the lead till a bogey at his closing gap on Saturday, will head out within the day’s penultimate pairing alongside world quantity 14 Viktor Hovland, who’s three pictures again of Burns.

Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz, one among 14 LIV Golf gamers who teed up on this 12 months’s U.S. Open, was even par on the week and alone in fifth place.

Entering the ultimate spherical, the entire gamers among the many top-10 on the leaderboard rank outdoors the highest 10 within the Official World Golf Ranking, in keeping with Elias Sports Bureau.

The final time the entire gamers who had been among the many prime 10 on the 54-hole U.S. Open leaderboard ranked outdoors the highest 10 within the rankings was in 1998.

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