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BROOKLINE, Mass. – A wild and windy third round at the U.S. Open finished with Will Zalatoris and Matt Fitzpatrick sharing the lead, and favoritism in the betting markets, as they chase a maiden major championship. BetMGM Sportsbook has both leaders at +333 to claim the U.S. Open crown, just a month after falling short from a similar position of power at the PGA Championship. Zalatoris put together a 3-under 67 on Saturday to get to 4-under for the tournament while Fitzpatrick’s 2-under 68 helped him move into the final group on Sunday for the second straight major. On that occasion Fitzpatrick faded to T5 on Sunday while Zalatoris managed to get into a playoff, only to go down to Justin Thomas. Zalatoris opened at +4000 and represents one of the biggest liabilities to BetMGM Sportsbook, holding over 5% of all tickets. Fitzpatrick opened at +5000 and has roughly 2.5% of all tickets. The duo sits one-shot clear of defending champion Jon Rahm who made a messy double bogey on the 18th hole to shoot 71 and drop from the solo lead into third place alone at 3-under. Rahm is +400 to repeat having opened at +1000. World no. 1 Scottie Scheffler produced an incredible roller coaster round, surging to a two-shot lead and heavy favoritism midway through the round before dropping four shots on the back nine. He sits at +600 to win with a round to play, tied with Canadian Adam Hadwin (+2200) and local Boston boy Keegan Bradley (+1400) at 2-under. Scheffler, the Masters champion, also opened at +4000 and holds around 5% of tickets and over 7.5% of the handle. Last start winner and 2011 U.S. Open winner Rory McIlroy is three shots off the pace, tied seventh with Sam Burns and Joel Dahmen at 1-under. McIlroy is +1000 to rebound from his Saturday 73 to win while Burns (+1800) is looking for a fourth win this season. Dahmen dropped from the overnight lead with a 74 and is now +5000 to cause an upset. One bettor will be hoping Burns can get a fourth TOUR win this season come Sunday. BetMGM reports a $2,947 wager to win $97,253 at +3300 came pre-tournament for the Louisiana native to win. All other contenders are either at, or over par, for the week and sit +10000 or higher to win. Thomas is coincidentally +25000, the odds he rallied from at the PGA when sitting eight shots back during the final round. He will start seven behind on Sunday. Open Champion Collin Morikawa imploded on Saturday with a 77, sinking back to T17 at 2-over and +15000 odds.
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BROOKLINE, Mass. — Will Zalatoris and Matt Fitzpatrick avoided the carnage and calamity that took down golf’s best Saturday at a U.S. Open that set the tone for a final day of survival. Zalatoris, who lost in a three-hole playoff at the PGA Championship last month, made only one bogey — a staggering feat on a beast of a Brookline course — for a 3-under 67. “Felt like I shot a 61,” Zalatoris said. “Whenever I made a mistake I was able to get away with it or pull off something miraculous.” Fitzpatrick, already a champion at The Country Club with his U.S. Amateur title in 2013, was equally steady and ran off three birdies over his last five holes for a 68. He will be in the final group of a major for the second straight time. Most telling was they didn’t make any double bogeys. That’s what knocked defending champion Jon Rahm out of the lead on the final hole. The Spaniard thought he had seen it all — including a shot he played back-handed from the base of a tree on the eighth hole — when he took three swipes from sand in two bunkers. Rahm’s first shot from a fairway bunker hit the lip and nearly rolled into his footprint. His next shot found a plugged lie in a greenside bunker, and two putts later he had a 71 and went from one ahead to one behind. Rahm wasn’t upset with his swing on the final hole. If anything, he said it was getting dark and he didn’t notice his ball sitting down in the sand. Rahm was looking ahead instead of what he left behind. “I have 18 holes, and I’m only one shot back,” he said. “That’s the important thing.” Zalatoris and Fitzpatrick were at 4-under 206, the same score of the 54-hole lead when the U.S. Open was last at The Country Club in 1988. It’s not like Rahm had full rights to the lead. This Saturday at Brookline was so wild that Rahm was among eight players who had at least a share of the lead at some point. Three of them didn’t even finish among the top 10, including two-time major champion Collin Morikawa. Morikawa, who shared the 36-hole lead with Joel Dahmen, had double bogeys on the seventh and 13th holes, and might have had a third after a chunked wedge on No. 4 except that he made a 25-foot putt for bogey. He finished with a 77. Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was not immune. The world’s No. 1 player looked to be pulling away when he holed a wedge from some 80 yards for eagle on the par-5 eighth. He was at 6 under and cruising until his wedge to a back pin on the 141-yard 11th hole bounced hard over the green and into deep rough. He took two to the green and two puts later was no longer leading. And it only got worse as three straight bogeys followed and he shot 71. Seven of the top 12 players going into Saturday made at least one double bogey in strong wind and cool temperatures that made this sweater weather in June. Rory McIlroy was not on that list. His was more of a slow bleed, mostly from a putter that wasn’t behaving. He made one birdie in his round of 73. All that, and this U.S. Open was far from settled. “It was one of the toughest days on a golf course I’ve had in a long time,” McIlroy said. “I just needed to grind it out, and I did on the back nine. To play that back nine at even par today was a really good effort, I thought. Just kept myself in the tournament. That’s all I was trying to do. Just keep hanging around.” Twenty-three players were under par going into the third round. Only nine remain with 18 holes remaining, all of them separated by three shots. That includes a local star — maybe not the Francis Ouimet variety, but Keegan Bradley is big enough in Beantown that he heard his name chanted loudly and proudly as he marched up toward the 18th green. A former PGA Championship winner, he called it “probably the highlight of my whole entire life.” He gave them reason to cheer. Three over through seven holes, Bradley answered with passion and birdies, five of them over his last 11 holes for a 69. He was two shots behind with Adam Hadwin (70) and Scheffler). McIlroy was three back along with Sam Burns (71) and Dahmen, who didn’t make a birdie in his round of 74 but stayed in the game because he didn’t have any big blunders. The average score was 73.5 and only seven players broke par. Denny McCarthy made the cut on the number at 3-over par. He finished his 68 before the leaders even arrived at the course. By the end of the day, he was tied for 11th, five shots behind. The U.S. Open played every bit like one. “I knew it was going to be hard,” Dahmen said. “I didn’t know it was going to be that hard.”
