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Sam Burns holds a lead with a stroke at the 2025 US Open Halfway point.
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2025 US Open It is already at the point of half, and after two rounds, the superiority has fallen from four to three under the money. The new leader, Sam Burns, holds a lead with a blow to the first round leader, JJ Spaun.
What is in the store for round 3? Here are five things you should know about Saturday at Oakmont.
Sam burns on fire
On a day when the main winners like Shane Lowry and Justin Rose were grinding to break 80, Burns went to the other side, Posting a five-nine 65 seemingly easy – The low round of the tournament so far.
While Burns has not yet won a major, his closest call came to the US Open, Pinehurst, where he finished T9.
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What happened to Scottie?
After shooting a round of three-top opening on Thursday, Scheffler was looking to create some ground on Friday. Unfortunately, his 71 round did nothing to delete his deficit, which remains the same. In four in general, Scheffler is still seven back -round strokes to play – not insurmountable, but he will need something special in round 3.
In short, Saturday’s round will be LOT Followers in his pursuit for Major no. 4.
Will you get command experience?
There are only two major winners currently in the first 10 places in the Presidency: Adam Scott (E) and Brooks Koepka (+2).
Scott has not won a major since his triumph in Masters in 2013, but has an impressive 20 10 10 credits since 2002.
Slim He is looking for his sixth major championship, but the first in two years, since his victory in the PGA 2023 championship.
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After we exhausted us on the open Friday, waits for a chaotic weekend
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The defense sample goes home early
Bryson Dechambeau entered this week with a fair amount of mortgage: he is not only the US Open defensive sample, he also completed T5 and T2 in Masters and PGA Championship, respectively.
But after signing for a round of three more than Thursday, Dechambeau is likely to hope for a resurrected Friday. Unfortunately, it was the opposite. Dechambeau scored eight bogeys and one doubles to post a 77 second round, pushing it to 10 over the same time and three shots above the line.
Many high profile winners lost cutting
My Guiea was not the only big name to run home early. Other prominent players to lose the cut in seven over the money included:
LUDVIG ABERG (72-76, +8)
WynDham Clark (74-74, +8)
Patrick Cantlay (76-72 +8)
Lucas Glover (74-74, +8)
Cameron Smith (75-73, +8)
Phil Mickelson (74-74, +8)
Tommy Fleetwood (74-75, +9)
Min wooe lee (77-72, +9)
Dustin Johnson (75-75, +10)
Joaquin Niemann (75, 75 +10)
Gary Woodland (73-77, +10)
Sepp Straka (78-73, +11)
Justin Thomas (76-76, +12)
