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Clanton: 'If you have a goal, you can get there'
Ahead of his first professional start at the RBC Canadian Open, Luke Clanton shares why he is ready for a life on the PGA Tour after making 13 starts as an amateur with six top-20 finishes and just three missed cuts.
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Final group tees off
Burns has a one-shot lead over Spaun and Scott at Oakmont with Viktor Hovland the only other under par Getty Images Sam Burns backed up his second-round 65 with a 69 in the third round of the U.S. Open, and he has a one-shot lead over J.J. Spaun and Adam Scott. Burns will enter the final round at 4 under. Follow live coverage here. Spaun also shot a 69 in the third round, while Scott fired a 67 and will play in the final group with Burns on Sunday. Viktor Hovland is the only other player under par at 1 under after a third-round 70. Carlos Ortiz shot a 67 and is at even par. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is tied for 11th at 4 over after a third-round 70. Get involved: live@ GO FURTHER Who can still win the 2025 U.S. Open? Analyzing the field at Oakmont Connections: Sports Edition Spot the pattern. Connect the terms Find the hidden link between sports terms The unlikely final group of Sam Burns and J.J. Spaun tees off in the third round at the U.S. Open. Spaun lands in the right fairway after hitting 307 yards off the tee. Burns. who is the 36-hole leader at 3 under, just clips the right rough off the tee. Getty Images Rory McIlroy has spoken to the media after his round of 74. He was — naturally — asked why he has decided to skip his last six post-round media obligations at major tournaments. When quizzed on whether his silence was down to his frustrations with the course, he replies: 'No. It's more frustration with you guys.' 💬 Asked to elaborate, he says: 'I've been totally available (with the media) for the last few years. Maybe (the frustration is not with) you guys … Maybe it's the whole thing. '(The driver controversy) was a part of it, yeah. That was a part of it. But at Augusta I skipped you guys on Thursday. It's not out of the ordinary, I've done it before. I'm just doing it a little more often. 'I feel like I've earned the right to do whatever I want to do. I hope the PGA doesn't change (the rules on speaking to the media) because it's a nice luxury to have. And we have the option not to (speak to the media).' You can watch the full interview below. There's a lot of interesting stuff in there. Viktor Hovland hits his third shot off the muddy cart path. It clips a leaf off the tree and lands it on the green somehow. What a golf shot! The Norwegian will take his bogey and RUN to the second hole if that's all the damage done. Getty Images Two-time U.S. Open winner Brooks Koepka has two bogeys in the first three holes after losing a shot on No. 3. He's already at 2 over for the day, which drops him 4 over for the tournament. Viktor Hovland finds his ball in the trees to the right of the cart path on the first hole. He is talking with the rules official about taking an unplayable and measuring the two club lengths. Not an ideal start for the Norwegian. The penultimate group is off and running on Saturday at the U.S. Open. Adam Scott, who is even for the tournament, blazes a drive up the left side of the fairway, going 313 yards. Viktor Hovland, who begins the day at 1 under, hits the cart path on the right and lands in the trees. The search is on with a likely unplayable as Hovland hits a provisional ball in the fairway. Wowza! Getty Images … I think I cursed Matt Wallace. Since declaring the Englishman to officially be 'In The Mix', he has bogeyed two of his last three holes. He's dropped back to +4 and likely needs a birdie (or two) on the final two holes. Getty Images Bob MacIntyre has been playing so well all week but today looks like it could be his best round yet. He was -2 when he hit the turn and he has just birdied the big par-five 12th to claw back another shot, moving to +1 for the tournament. Very few have played the hole better this week. His drive split the fairway and then he reached the green with his second shot, an absolute belter of an approach considering he was still over 300 yards back. One tidy two-putt later and he's only four shots off the lead. Getty Images Scottie Scheffler has back-to-back bogeys after making one on the difficult par-4 ninth hole. That's his 14th bogey of the tournament. Scheffler is at 1 over for the day and 5 over for the tournament. He's really in the danger zone of being out of the hunt. Getty Images Thomas Detry has birdied the second to move back into the top ten. Detry was right near the top of the leaderboard for much of yesterday's second round, until a truly horrible finish saw him make three double bogeys on the last five holes. But the Belgian is already back to +1 and only trails Sam Burns by four. (I still think it's a truly horrific glove, however.) Imagn Images That was not what Brooks Koepka was looking for to start this round. He was just fine after two shots, on the front of the green. But he three-putted for bogey and dropped to 3 over, six shots off Sam Burns' lead. The first hole is getting a lot of players today. It looks tame enough, but we all know it's not. Imagn Images Just when it looked like Scottie Scheffler had a little momentum, he missed a four-foot par putt on the eighth hole. That one certainly could hurt when we look back on it. Imagn Images Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy finish up their rounds without much going on during moving day. Schauffele shot a 1-over 71 and is at 7 over for the tournament. McIlroy shoots a 4-over 74 and is at 10 over. Brooks Koepka's opening tee shot leaks left and looks as though it's headed for the really juicy stuff, only to come down in the first cut. Fortunate. Less fortunate for Koepka is the fact the pin is placed in the middle of the green today, which will make his approach shot more tricky than it would have been Thursday or Friday. Brooks Koepka's putter might have cooled off a bit yesterday, but he will start his round today just five shots off the pace. In Round 1, despite missing seven greens in regulation, Koepka was able to successfully get up and down five times. Friday, he was just 2-for-9 scrambling, leading to a round with eight bogeys. Koepka trailed by multiple strokes entering the third round in three of his five major championship victories. Brooks Koepka is making his way to the first tee. He's playing alongside Si Woo Kim. Getty Images Marc Leishman's third round is starting to fall apart. He just carded his second consecutive bogey after missing a 16-foot putt for par. Leishman was once 4 under for the day. Now he's 2 under, sitting at +4 for the tournament. The move is going in the opposite (wrong) direction for the Aussie. Imagn Images Scottie Scheffler was left off the tee in a bunker on No. 7 and had to pitch out into the fairway on his second shot. But he hit a beautiful third shot and made the par putt. Scheffler heads to the difficult eighth and ninth. Two pars there would be certainly appreciated. Getty Images Englishman Matt Wallace is currently -3 for the day, without a single bogey on his scorecard. That means he's +3 for the tournament with five holes left to play today. Wallace has one PGA Tour victory on his record, at the Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic in 2023. His best finish at a major came four years before that, when he enjoyed a share of third at the PGA Championship. But if he can maybe make another birdie or two before heading to the clubhouse he could well find himself in the mix tomorrow.
Yahoo
27 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Rory McIlroy ready for next challenge after ‘climbing Everest' with Masters win
Rory McIlroy is ready for a new challenge after 'climbing my Everest' of winning the Masters and has set his sights on next month's Open at Portrush. McIlroy ended a difficult week at the US Open on a high on Sunday, going some way to exorcising the demons of an Oakmont course that had tortured him for the first three days. Advertisement The 36-year-old played his best golf of the week, with the sort of accuracy and guile that he would have longed for on Thursday and Friday, carding a three-under-par 67 to finish on seven under. It was not just the bruising difficulty of Oakmont which has left him feeling fuzzy-headed this week, though, as McIlroy still suffers the hangover of that career-defining win at Augusta in April, where he became just the sixth player to complete a career grand slam of majors. He has accepted that it is time to regain his focus and knows next month's Open on home soil in Northern Ireland is the place to do it. Advertisement 'Look, I climbed my Everest in April, and I think after you do something like that, you've got to make your way back down, and you've got to look for another mountain to climb,' he said. 'An Open at Portrush is certainly one of those. 'If I can't get motivated to get up for an Open Championship at home, then I don't know what can motivate me. 'I just need to get myself in the right frame of mind. I probably haven't been there the last few weeks.' Next month's final major of the year is just 65 miles from where he grew up playing at Holywood and it will be his first visit to Northern Ireland since winning the Green Jacket and completing the set. Advertisement 'I feel like playing an Open at Portrush already (in 2019) and at least remembering what those feelings were like and those feelings that I was probably unprepared for at the time,' he said. 'Obviously it will be my first time sort of in public back home after winning the Masters. It should be a really nice week. 'Hopefully I can celebrate with them on Sunday night with the Claret Jug and the Green Jacket. 'It will be amazing to go home and play in that atmosphere and see a lot of people that I still haven't seen yet. I'm really looking forward to it. 'It was nice to end this week with a bit of a positive note with the way I played today, and yeah, I'll just be looking forward to and trying to get myself prepared for Portrush.'
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41 minutes ago
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These Utahns qualified to play in next week's U.S. Open on Monday
FILE — Zac Blair hits from the fairway on the 13th hole during the first round of the U.S. Open Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Pinehurst, N.C. | Matt York, Associated Press The state of Utah will be well-represented next week in the 2025 U.S. Open at famed Oakmont Country Club in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Former BYU golfer Zac Blair qualified for the event June 12-15 by surviving a four-man playoff for one spot at a final U.S. Open qualifying site in Springfield, Ohio. After shooting a 4-under 136 on Monday, the current Orem resident outlasted amateur John Peterson and pros Kurt Kitayama and Dawson Armstrong for the fourth available spot. Advertisement It was the third time Blair has qualified for the U.S. Open in Springfield; He will play in his fourth U.S. Open, having tied for 26th last year at Pinehurst No. 2 course in North Carolina. Meanwhile, former Utahn Preston Summerhays, an Arizona State golfer who grew up in Farmington, was medalist in the Valencia, California, qualifying site, firing a phenomenal 10-under 132 on Monday at Valencia Country Club. Summerhays, the son of former PGA Tour player Boyd Summerhays, shot a final-round 63 to clear the field by three shots. He was the 2018 and 2019 Utah State Amateur champion and competed in the U.S. Open previously in 2020 and 2021. A couple of other Utahns didn't fare as well in California. Korn Ferry Tour regular Daniel Summerhays (Preston's uncle) shot an even-par 142 and tied for 14th, missing the cut for a playoff by four shots. Advertisement Lone Peak High graduate Kihei Akina, one of the top junior golfers in the country and a BYU golf signee, also shot a 142 at Valencia and missed the cut by four shots. Another BYU product who is a PGA Tour golfer and tried to qualify Monday is Patrick Fishburn, an Ogden native. Fishburn got off to a great start with an opening-round 68 at Lambton Golf & Country Club in Ontario, Canada, but posted a 73 in his afternoon round and missed the seven-player cut by seven shots. Salt Lake City's Tony Finau will also play in the U.S. Open, for the 11th straight year. Finau tied for third last year at Pinehurst, shooting 4-under 276 in the event won by Bryson DeChambeau.
