US Open golf 2025: day three at Oakmont Country Club
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Date: 2025-06-14T18:00:00.000Z
Title: Preamble
Content: It's Moving Day! Here's what the top of the leaderboard looked like at the end of the second round …
-3: Sam Burns
-2: JJ Spaun
-1: Viktor Hovland
E: Adam Scott, Ben Griffin
+1: Victor Perez, Thriston Lawrence
+2: Russell Henley, Brooks Koepka, Kim Si-woo, Thomas Detry
… here are some selected other scores, because nobody's running away with this and there are plenty of stars within striking distance …
+3: Tyrrell Hatton, Jason Day, Keegan Bradley
+4: Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler, Robert MacIntyre
+5: Ryan Fox, Jordan Spieth, Im Sung-jae
+6: Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy
… here are some big names who have missed the cut …
the defending champion Bryson DeChambeau; the 2016 Oakmont champion Dustin Johnson and his runner-up Shane Lowry; other former champions in Wyndham Clark, Lucas Glover, Gary Woodland and Justin Rose; erstwhile major champions in Cameron Smith, Phil Mickelson and Justin Thomas; and other big names such as Ludvig Åberg, Patrick Cantlay, Min Woo Lee, Tommy Fleetwood, Akshay Bhatia, Sepp Straka and Joaquin Niemann
… here's the only amateur to make the weekend, so he's assured of the low-amateur medal (won in recent years by Scottie Scheffler, Viktor Hovland, Jon Rahm, Matt Fitzpatrick, Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay, so no mean feat) providing he completes the final two rounds …
+6: Justin Hastings (a 21-year-old from the Cayman Islands who was the best-performing amateur at this year's Masters, but didn't make the cut, so he couldn't win the Silver Cup)
… and here are today's tee times. (USA unless stated, all times BST, (a) denotes amateurs.) It's on!
14.12 Philip Barbaree
14.23 Cameron Davis (Aus), Brian Harman
14.34 Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Andrew Novak
14.45 Harris English, Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn)
14.56 Laurie Canter (Eng), James Nicholas
15.07 Ryan McCormick, Patrick Reed
15.18 Ryan Gerard, Niklas Noergaard (Den)
15.34 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Xander Schauffele
15.45 (a) Justin Hastings (Cay), Jordan Smith (Eng)
15.56 Tony Finau, Marc Leishman (Aus)
16.07 Corey Conners (Can), Michael Kim
16.18 JT Poston, Matt Wallace (Eng)
16.29 Chris Gotterup, Johnny Keefer
16.40 Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Maverick McNealy
16.56 Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Matthieu Pavon (Fra)
17.07 Sung-Jae Im (Kor), Jordan Spieth
17.18 Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Ryan Fox (Nzl)
17.29 Trevor Cone, Taylor Pendrith (Can)
17.40 Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Aaron Rai (Eng)
17.51 Daniel Berger, Jhonattan Vegas (Ven)
18.02 Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young
18.18 Denny McCarthy, Collin Morikawa
18.29 Jon Rahm (Spa), Nick Taylor (Can)
18.40 Keegan Bradley, Sam Stevens
18.51 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den), Carlos Ortiz (Mex)
19.02 Jason Day (Aus), Chris Kirk
19.13 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng)
19.24 Max Greyserman, Adam Schenk
19.40 Thomas Detry (Bel), Emiliano Grillo (Arg)
19.51 Si-Woo Kim (Kor), Brooks Koepka
20.02 Russell Henley, Thriston Lawrence (Rsa)
20.13 Ben Griffin, Victor Perez (Fra)
20.24 Viktor Hovland (Nor), Adam Scott (Aus)
20.35 Sam Burns, JJ Spaun
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