2 days ago
US Open third round: Scores and latest leaderboard from Oakmont
2:25PM
Tee times amended
I was duped by misreading the world clock. They are in fact half an hour later BST. Apologies.
First out is Philip Barbaree on seven-over – he made the cut this morning with a birdie on the last:
Philip Barbaree Jr. had to make this 5-footer Saturday morning to play the weekend at Oakmont. Look at what it means 🥹
(🎥: @RoyLangIII)
— U.S. Open (@usopengolf) June 14, 2025
Sky's coverage in the UK starts at 3pm.
2:10PM
Enjoying the tempest
As Oakmont gets absolutely soaked with rain right now, this Ben Griffin quote is giving me life.
"I'm down for whatever."
— Paolo Uggetti (@PaoloUggetti) June 14, 2025
1:55PM
Third-round pin positions
Let's do this….
— Adam Schupak (@AdamSchupak) June 14, 2025
1:44PM
Created by sadists, welcome to this year's US Open golf course
It had not happened to Paul Casey before and has not happened to anyone since. When the Englishman walked towards the recorder's hut in the 2007 US Open, his fellow pros on the practice green put down their putters and delivered a collective round of applause.
Casey had not won – it was only the Friday – but with a 66 he had, for one day only, conquered Oakmont.
'That was a one-off, not just my score, but the reaction from the guys,' Casey told Telegraph Sport. 'Anywhere else and you shoot a good score and all you get from them is a grunt of 'Well done'. It just shows the difficulty of Oakmont. It bites and it bites hard.'
Indeed, the joke in the clubhouse is that the 18 holes would be more appropriately placed in Transylvania than Pennsylvania. The members cherish its reputation as the hardest course on the major rotas – maybe too much – and love to repeat the statement of the founder's son, WC Fownes: 'Let the clumsy, the spineless and the alibi makers stand aside.'
1:30PM
Oakmont's a brute but where does it stand with its savage counterparts?
1:23PM
Don't come if you don't want to get wet
Because more rain is expected and Oakmont promises to be quite sloppy in various spectator locations, the USGA is telling ticket holders they can get a full refund for Saturday if they elect not to come to the tournament foe the third round
— Bob Harig (@BobHarig) June 14, 2025
1:19PM
Tee times just announced
Selected:
15.34 Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele
17.18 Ryan Fox and Bob MacIntyre
17.40 Rasmus Hojgaard and Aaron Rai
18.02 Cameron Young and Scottie Scheffler
19.13 Tyrrell Hatton and Christiaan Bezuidenhout
19.51 Kim Si-woo and Brooks Koepka
20.02 Russell Henley and Thriston Lawrence
20.13 Victor Perez and Ben Griffin
20.24 Adam Scott and Viktor Hovland
20.35 JJ Spaun and Sam Burns
12:30PM
Tee times TBC
At the end of the second round which will resume for the 13 golfers who were unfinished when lightning struck and the hooter sounded late last night. The third round will begin at around 3pm BST, 10amEDT.
12:24PM
Weather forecast for Plum, Pennsylvania
According to the Weather Channel, there will be fairly persistent rain this morning, max temperature of 23C/74F and the rain lightens around noon followed by intermittent showers all afternoon which will be a godsend to the players on those previously brilliantined greens.
12:18PM
Preview: Moving day
Good afternoon and welcome to live coverage of round three, moving day, of the 2025 US Open from the infernal Oakmont. After the 13 stragglers who were left stranded on the final holes of their second rounds complete them this morning, proceedings will begin with Sam Burns in the halfway lead at three-under with Rory McIlroy starting early, once the tee time shave been confirmed, nine strokes behind after making the cut by one shot with Friday's birdie at the 18th. Better to start early than not at all, which is the fate of defending champion Bryson DeChambeau, who is heading home to Grapevine (I bet you're wondering how I knew) after his R2 seven-over left him marooned at 10-over for the tournament.
Burns' five-under-par 65 put him one shot clear of Thursday's overnight leader JJ Spaun while the only other player under par is Viktor Hovland, alone in third place and two shots behind Burns after a two-under 68 that included a chip-in for an eagle from behind the green at his eighth hole, the par-four 17th. Adam Scott, playing in his 96th consecutive major, recorded a second successive even-par 70 and was three shots off the pace and in a two-way share of fourth place with Ben Griffin.
Play was suspended due to lightning with 13 golfers still on the course in a driving rain, including South Africa's Thriston Lawrence, who was looking at a three-foot par putt on his final hole to stay at one over on the week when the horn sounded. 'Just about when I was going to take my putt, the siren sounded,' said Lawrence. 'A bit frustrating in that sense, but those are the rules.'
McIlroy was in a battle with his driver and irons to make the cut after two early double-bogeys and hoyed one of them in exasperation at the 12th after botching his approach before destroying the tee box at 17 with a violent swing of his club. Yet he managed to make par at the penultimate hole and closed with a birdie to make the cut with a shot to spare. Pre-tournament favourite Scottie Scheffler endured a switchback ride of four birdies and five bogeys for a one-over 71 that left him at four-over.
'Today was, I think with the way I was hitting it, was easily a day I could have been going home and battled pretty hard to stay in there,' said Scheffler. 'I'm four-over. We'll see what the lead is after today, but around this golf course I don't think by any means I'm out of the tournament.'
