Oakmont, PA.-Asked Friday how he would describe his window to win another major championship, Adam Scott has a one-word Zinger: “Ajar.”
Yes, when you are pushing 45, a self-impure but fair assessment. But perhaps Scott shot on Saturday.
Scott followed the 70s consecutively 70s with a third round of 67 for a torid back nine at the Omont Country Club, and suddenly, hanged around in the mixture in the Australian US Open.
Sam Burns took the 54-Hole lead to 4 under equal, but Scott caught the second position with JJ Spanish. The characteristic of Burns, Spon, Norway’s Victor Hoveland and Mexico’s Carlos Orties – only Scott has won a major – Burns, Spon, Norway’s Victor Hoveland.
In fact, most others have limited experience only on weekends. Scott has been again and time again with 20 top -10 finish in Major from 2002-24.
If Scott underlines his greenery competition, he will be the second oldest winner in the US Open History behind Hell Irwin in 1990. This will also mark the longest difference between a player’s first and second major win; It has been 12 years since slipping on a green jacket in Augusta National.
“This will be the super complete,” said Scott. “Everyone has got their journey here, you know. Keeping yourself in these positions is not just by fluke. It is not easy to do.”
Scott was to install the birdie for its round before a pair of tremendous shots in the 13th and 14th Greens. Earlier, a para -3, he launched his iron shot inside 5 feet. He then dialed backspine on his veg in the 14th and almost hole it.
“It was like a reading there today. Obviously it was soft, and some pins were very difficult to control the spin. But I just did not try to force anything. I played safe shots and admitted that I was not going to end next to the hole when (her shot) was not dial.”
His last Birds Par-4 came to the 17th, where he survived the Greenside bunker and rolled into 14-foot. Scott went to the sand sev for the day 3 -for -3, and his player, Hoveland, thrown him out, saying it was a “magnificent” round.
Hoveland was 15 years old when Scott won the masters. The younger generation who represents most of this US Open Leaderboard knows what Scott can do, even if the glimpse has recently become rare.
Scott said, “I was not really in such a situation for five or six years, or feel that I am like that player. But I am always working.” “It is not easy to find out all this.
“But if I was to come away from it (Sunday), it would be a round of golf and a wonderful point on my career.”
-Adam Zillonka, Field Level Media
