BROOKLINE, Mass. (Reuters) – U.S. Open co-leaders Collin Morikawa and Joel Dahmen started their third spherical on Saturday at The Country Club exterior Boston the place whipping winds have to date made for tough scoring conditions.
With the highest three gamers on this planet rankings — Scottie Scheffler, defending champion Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy — all inside two strokes of the lead after the second spherical, a day of pleasure seems in retailer on the 12 months’s third main.
By the time the co-leaders set off within the closing pairing on the par-four first gap, solely 9 of the 46 golfers on the course had been beneath par on the day because the format was taking part in the hardest it has all week.
Morikawa matched the bottom spherical of the week on Friday with a four-under-par 66 and now tries to place himself in place to win a serious in three consecutive years following triumphs on the British Open (2021) and PGA Championship (2020).
Dahmen, a 34-year-old qualifier taking part in in his third U.S. Open and ninth profession main, is one among three gamers within the subject to card a number of scores of 68 or higher on the par-70 format in Brookline.
Among the 5 golfers who started the day one stroke off the lead are Spaniard Rahm and four-time main winner McIlroy, who arrived at Brookline because the event favorite and recent off a profitable title defence in Canada.
Rahm went off within the penultimate group alongside Hayden Buckley and are taking part in behind the pairing of Northern Irishman McIlroy, who bogeyed the par-three second, and Aaron Wise.
Masters champion Scheffler, seeking to turn into the primary participant to win a number of majors in a 12 months since Brooks Koepka did it in 2018, started the day two strokes off the lead and minimize it in half with a birdie-bogey-birdie begin.
Will Zalatoris, who completed runner-up ultimately month’s PGA Championship, coated the entrance 9 in two-under 33 and was two photographs behind the co-leaders.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue; Editing by Ken Ferris)
