Can Rory McIlroy break his 10-year major duck this evening?
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16 June 2024 • 6:45pm
6:45PM
Hatton and Finau about to tee off
Both on one-under, six back of DeChambeau. You think that has to be too far back…but you never know…
6:22PM
The best completed round so far is…
…a 68, from Seonghyeon Kim. And the best round still out on the course is also two-under. So scoring is, once again, hard…
6:20PM
Tee times coming up
Popcorn for that penultimate pairing (they, Rory and Cantlay, are not BBFLs (Best Buds For Life, as if you didn’t know…)…)
6:26 Aaron Rai (Eng), Tom Kim (Kor)
6.37 Corey Conners (Can), Collin Morikawa
6.48 Tony Finau (US), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng)
6.59 Ludvig Åberg (Swe), Hideki Matsuyama (Jap)
7.10 Patrick Cantlay (US), Rory McIlroy (NIR)
7.21 Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Bryson DeChambeau (US)
6:06PM
Is a three-shot lead too much?
A three-shot lead on a devilishly hard course can be seen two ways. (i) It’s hard to make up a lot of shots in terms of the catching pack making a bunch of birdies, and (ii) on such a tricky track shots can be lost so easily that three shots is nothing.
So it depends on whether you’re a glass-half full or a glass-half empty person regards Rory McIlroy’s chances of chasing down Bryson DeChambeau’s lead heading into this evening’s final round at Pinehurst, a course, one suspects, a lot of these golfers won’t be in a rush to head back to (at least not when it’s set up as it has been this week).
McIlroy said coming into this US Open that he feels he’s never been close to breaking that 10-year major drought. And his first three rounds in North Carolina have illustrated that that belief was far from misplaced. He’s played brilliantly, his lag putting and short game have been as good as anything and he’s within striking distance of the American.
But DeChambeau has been just a level above the rest of the field these past three days and one suspects it will be more a case of him tripping up than a surge from behind if the ‘Mad Scientist’ isn’t to win his second US Open and major.
Whatever happens McIlroy is out to enjoy the pressure and fun.
”I’m embracing the questions that the golf course asks of you,” McIlroy said. “It tests your chipping. It tests your putting. It obviously tests your mental fortitude more than any other golf tournament.
”It’s a style of golf I’ve started to try and embrace over these past few years.
”I’m pretty much in the same position that I was last year going into the final day and hopefully I produce the golf that’s needed to go one better,” he added, referring to his US Open runner-up finish in 2023.
Stay here to find out whether the Northern Irishman can break the 10-year duck and for all the action from Pinehurst No 2.
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