Scottie Scheffler

Jon Rahm is the defending champion, but the Spanish icon is set to battle Rory McIlroy, Will Zalatoris, Matt Fitzpatrick and Scottie Scheffler as he eyes back- ...

Meanwhile, Rory drops one (again) at the 8th to fall back to -1. Scottie Scheffler moves quickly to -3 with a rapid start to his Sunday. Lovely second shot and cans the birdie with ease. Scottie Scheffler is really showing his class. Fitzpatrick suddenly in the box seat. A swerving birdie with more turn than the London Eye. He joins his fellow American Scottie on -5. Rory will need another couple of birdies to ensure he matches 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, who leads in the clubhouse on -3 after a blistering run of 65 today. Looked like Zalatoris was going to return to -6, but his 10 footer for birdie just stays on the high side. Scheffler with a short-range putt to get to -5 on 17 after a brilliant approach shot. All on the line, but Fitzpatrick responds in style. Zalatoris bangs home the 2 from 6 feet to close to -5. Fitzpatrick takes his 4 with a tough downhill putt. Zalatoris is on the fairway.

A star-studded US Open leaderboard promises a thrilling finale at Brookline with Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm hunting down Fitzpatrick and Will Zalatoris.

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The 2022 U.S. Open has turned into an all-time classic as Will Zalatoris, Matthew Fitzpatrick and 2022 Masters champion Scottie Scheffler are battling atop ...

I think it just taught me that just go play golf," said Morikawa, who was insistent his game was not where he wanted it to be for most of the championship. T2. Will Zalatoris and Scottie Scheffler (-5): It is a game of inches after all, and when Zalatoris and Scheffler both narrowly missed birdie opportunities on the 72nd hole, Fitzpatrick became your U.S. Open champion. McIlroy, meanwhile, was rolling entering the weekend at 4 under, but a third-round 73 put him far enough behind the leaders that he needed to minimize his mistakes Sunday to have a shot. Fitzpatrick had his fair share of miscues on Sunday, but he took the punches like a champion. Unfortunately, a 77 in the third round -- his worst score at a major championship -- derailed his U.S. Open aspirations. Fitzpatrick missed an 18-foot birdie putt to clinch the win, but Zalatoris missed a similar 14-foot putt by a hair as Fitzpatrick posted his third 68 of the tournament and first PGA Tour victory. 4. Hideki Matsuyama (-3): A 5-under 65, the low round of the day, pushed the former Masters champion into contention when he was an afterthought for most of the week. He took it on the chin, following the miscue with a career-defining shot onto the green that set up his U.S. Open triumph. The U.S. Open is often and rightfully described as "the most difficult test in golf." Still, it had not been an easy road for Fitzpatrick to this point, and his final round at The Country Club was a perfect encapsulation of this. Two holes later, after missing the fairway, Fitzpatrick hit one of the best iron shots of the day to set up a birdie look on the lengthy par-4 15th. That was evident this week as the name of the game for Fitzpatrick was consistency.

Matt Fitzpatrick made the turn with a one-shot lead over Will Zalatoris and Scottie Scheffler in what's shaping up as...

There hasn't been enough accumulation of rain to soften the course. Murray needed four tries to get out of the rough behind the seventh hole on Sunday and then threw his putter into the high fescue as he left the green. But playing on the weekend is apparently no reason for him to celebrate. He is trying to recover from a third-round 77 that dropped him off the leaderboard. The Italian finished tied for fourth last year in his U.S. Open debut. He's the reigning Masters champion, looking for his second career major victory. Scheffler started the day at 2 under and two holes later he had matched Will Zalatoris and Matt Fitzpatrick at minus-4. McCarthy had a 68 in the third round, started Sunday with three birdies in five holes and is in a tie for fourth. But he got up and down to save par, then made another par on 9 to turn at 6-under. That was one shot ahead of Matt Fitzpatrick and two clear of Will Zalatoris, who were paired in the day's final twosome. Zalatoris and Fitzpatrick, in the final group at The Country Club, are each going for their first major title. His birdie came about the same time as Scheffler made bogey on No. 10 to fall to 5 under.

The 27-year-old from Sheffield claimed his first Major in winning a thriller at Brookline with a superb bunker shot on the 18th.

He lashes his second into the green, but he’s not getting any spin, and the ball bounds through and into a bunker at the back. Will Zalatoris meanwhile is forced to take his medicine and hack out sideways ... but he does so clumsily, sending his ball across the fairway and into the second cut on the left. It’s his second 68 of the weekend, though, and at -1, he’s sure of a top-ten finish, by far his best result at a major. Too little, too late for Rory McIlroy, surely, but he wedges to 12 feet on 14 and knocks in the birdie putt. He’s in the cabbage, but fairly close to the flag, and will fancy his chances of delicately chipping close. Anyway, the birdie putt dies to the left, and it’s a frustrating 69, another frustrating close-but-no-cigar finish at a major. And back to 18, where Scheffler taps in for his par and signs for a 67. Up on the green, Jon Rahm concludes his title defence with a par to sign for a deflating final-day 74. With it all on the line, he flushes an iron into the heart of the green, 18 feet from the flag! I got a couple of nice breaks on 15 and took advantage of it, and that’s what it took at the end. But this is Fitzpatrick’s moment, and now he’s laughing hysterically, with tears of joy, as he collapses into the embrace of his family. He was pushed all the way by Will Zalatoris and Scottie Scheffler, but when it came to the crunch, he produced a moment of carpe-diem genius from a bunker at 18 that registered a full ten on the Sandy Lyle-o-meter. That’s a shot that’ll be remembered for a very long time, and one that deserved the reward of the US Open. Thanks for reading this report.

They headed to the 15th tee box at 5 under, one shot ahead of Masters champion Scottie Scheffler. Hideki Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters champ, was in the clubhouse ...

Murray needed four tries to get out of the rough behind the seventh hole on Sunday and then threw his putter into the high fescue as he left the green. But playing on the weekend is apparently no reason for him to celebrate. He is trying to recover from a third-round 77 that dropped him off the leaderboard. The Italian finished tied for fourth last year in his U.S. Open debut. Scheffler started the day at 2 under and two holes later he had matched Will Zalatoris and Matt Fitzpatrick at minus-4. McCarthy had a 68 in the third round, started Sunday with three birdies in five holes and is in a tie for fourth. But he got up and down to save par, then made another par on 9 to turn at 6-under. That was one shot ahead of Matt Fitzpatrick and two clear of Will Zalatoris, who were paired in the day's final twosome. Zalatoris and Fitzpatrick, in the final group at The Country Club, are each going for their first major title. His birdie came about the same time as Scheffler made bogey on No. 10 to fall to 5 under. That's where Frances Ouimet made a birdie to force a playoff that gave him his historic win at the 1913 U.S. Open. Justin Leonard sank a long putt there to clinch the Ryder Cup in 1991. The playoff holes are Nos. 1 and 18.