The open fall of Sam Burns’ US ended with fiery eyes but also self -esteem

Oakmont, without. – as Sam Burns It was last coming on a Sunday of Soggy US Open, the scene had all the traces of March of Victor: Jammed Grandstands, appreciation fans, the crew of the bases pouring under ropes and shaking their way to Green for a first line in history.

It was certainly the type of phase that Burns had predicted for himself when he took the lead in the last round of this 125 playing open, except for an unfortunate wrinkle: Praise and Pageantry playing outside at 18th was not for him; Was for the winner of the income-by-afterJj Spaun, who was playing in front of Burns and Adam Scott. As Burns waited to play his second shot from the left approximately-he was out of the quarrel from this point-spaun, which would open his round by making five of his first six holes, stunning the title, falling a 65 pedestrian who sent a roar by torn the property like a car.

You cannot blame Burns if he was feeling a little shocked by the shell; He was definitely feeling a little wet after the lit rain had soaked the course throughout the afternoon and in the evening, at a moment Suspension for more than 90 minutes. For burns, the gloomy setting was appropriate. When he started his round at 2:15 in the afternoon, he was in four under the week, one better than his closest follower. When, more than six hours later, Burns with two strokes for Bogey in the home hole, he had cardear a 78 overwhelmingly threw in four excessive for the week and in a tie for the 7th. With any measurable measures, burns were collapsed. Five bogies. Two doubles. A number of 18 holes nearly five shots worse than the field marking average. Of the 66 players who signed the cards on Sunday, only three posted higher results than Burns.

“Golf is a difficult game,” Burns said afterwards, “especially in this Golf Course.”

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it The golf course always lives until his scary billing. to shake the rough ball. Slippery sloping greens. Cave bunkers. It is a devilish test – that, for three rounds, burns. After opening with a two-top 72, he hit Oakmont in the second round along the way to a 65 nail, the lower round of the week. “Mentally, there is not just a kind of gimmoma,” he said after that round (predicting the alarm!). “There is no hole where you can get up there and just hit it and not pay attention to what you are trying to do.”

When Burns supported him 65 with a 69, she was starting to look like that might be his week, though Nerds Quant also had reason to believe it might not be. Burns has five PGA Tour wins, but it has not been sharper in the largest stages; Before this week, he had only recorded one Top-10 finish in 21 main starts. In the open championship in Royal Troon last July, Burns was one in the lead after 54 holes. On Sunday, he fired 80 and fell 29 points down the driver.

Burns counts Scottie Scheffler among his closest friends in the tour; Both players and their families often share houses together on the street, as they did this week in the Pittsburgh area. On Sunday morning, Burns asked Scheffler tips on how to close. Scheffler described the exchange as a “good conversation”, but added, “was a strange place because I was not in the lead, but I had a chance in the tournament.” (Scheffler shot 70 and connected to burning.)

Either way, whatever Scheffler gave, she did not produce immediate results to his party. After making a predecessor unwilling to the first, Burns Bogeyd a pair of par-4s, 2 and 5. He was two of the eight when the game was suspended. In his first hole back, par-4 9, he made another Bogey to return to three. Still, in another for the tournament, Burns’s fate was still very much in his hands.

But this is when his round began to go aside, in such wrong conditions that Scott said, “Thank God it was not like this all week.” After a double in 11 and Bogey in 12, Burns fell into a five -way logjam for the first time. A pair pars followed, but the burns completely was undone after his shooting at 503-Oborr par-4 15 grabbed the right side of the road, hard against the first cut. Believing that his ball was in temporary water, Burns asked for a relief official. When his prayer was denied, he requested the ruling of another official. Denied again. So Burns played away, pulling his approach to the rough green left. “That’s funny,” he said as his ball disappeared into the thick items.

Asked about the ruling after his round, Burns said: “That slopes of the left right road; this is the type of low part of the road. When I entered it, you can clearly see the water it was coming. NBC commentator Brad Faxon agreed, saying in the air, “he should have been able to get relief from there. This is a bad call.”

Burns needed two chips to find the green, then with two strokes for double, stifling any remaining glow of hope that he could raise the trophy at the end of the day.

Burns will have more chances in large points. Many of them are. He is only 28 years old and is a wild with his holder. The last major of the season, the open championship, is just a month away, and Burns will also be on Keegan Bradley’s Ryder Cup team at Bethpage Black this September. This Sunday Oakmont was another painful learning experience for Burns, but in the war there is growth.

“I am extremely proud of how I fought there today,” he said. “At the end of the day, I can keep my head up.”

It also didn’t lose in Burns: Sunday was the day of the father. Sam and his wife, Caroline, have a son of the baby, Bear, and Sam said earlier this week that becoming a father has been “changing life”.

“We were joking with schefflers yesterday afternoon,” Sam said for a scene on their rented property. “We were out in the yard, and the boys, without clothes, just playing on the small spray pillow, having the time of their lives. We were like, what did we do before that? We’re like, good, we just sat down and we saw a show and was quiet.”

These days, Sam added, “There is nothing better for me to return home after a long day and see Bear and Caroline and stay with them.”

When Sam came out of his round after his round, his wife and son were waiting near the entrance to the closet room.

When Bear, who has a blond hair, without his father, his face was lit and the family shared a hug in the group. After Sam briefly met with reporters, he and his family were repaired at the club. A few minutes later, they reappeared. Sam was glassy eyes and generally looked like a golf player ready for a hot shower and a cold beer.

As Sam and Caroline walked into the parking lot, Bear was hanging from one of Sam’s shoulders and a Trackman start monitor was hanging on the other.

US Open is over, but life would continue. Always does.