CLUTCH drive on 17 sets up Spaun's U.S. Open win J.J. Spaun won the U.S. Open in dramatic fashion Sunday for his first PGA Tour title. He also collected $4.3 million. Runner-up Robert MacIntyre earned $2,

By Frank Pingue OAKMONT, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -Overnight U.S. Open leader Sam Burns, seeking the biggest win of his career, got his final round underway on Sunday at partly cloudy Oakmont Country Club with a one-shot lead over Australian Adam Scott and J.

“Best night’s sleep I’ve had in seven years,” Hahn told Golf Digest on Monday morning, calling early from his home near the company’s Oregon base. An entrepreneur in the bar and music business who took charge of the L.A.B. operation in 2018, Hahn said he had a different feeling throughout the ups and downs of Oakmont over the last seven days.

The 18-hole layout is nearly 7,500 yards long and hilly, with three par-3 holes longer than 200 yards alongside one par-5 that exceeds 600. Then there are the especially sandy bunkers and the New York crowd that can be, well...a New York crowd.

Oakmont Country Club beat up the world's elite for four days, and the golfer who handled adversity the best was someone accustomed to it.

U.S. Open heads for the weekend on Saturday morning at Oakmont Country Club, and there are some surprising names atop the leaderboard. Americans Sam Burns and J.J. Spaun lead the way at 3 under and 2 under,

In only its third year, the Mizuho Americas Open has created a huge impact on LPGA stars and top-ranked AJGA juniors.

That didn't stop golf fans from enjoying their Father's Day afternoon, though. In place of the live action, NBC decided to air highlights from the final two rounds of the 2008 U.S. Open, which was won by Tiger Woods at Torrey Pines while on a bum knee.

The U.S. Open uses a two-hole aggregate playoff to determine its champion. In this format, if two or more players are tied after 72 holes of regulation, they will compete over two additional holes with the player producing the lowest total score winning.