- Collin Morikawa shoots best-of-day 66 and co-leads with Joel Dahmen
- Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler and Matt Fitzpatrick in hot pursuit
- Official leaderboard from Brookline
Sam Burns sends his drive at the short par-four 5th into thick fescue up a bank to the right of the green. He’s got a bunker to navigate as well, but plenty of green to play with. He whips a high lob to five feet, which is nothing short of miraculous from where he was, then calmly strokes the birdie putt into the centre of the cup. His third bird of the day, and he suddenly becomes a serious part of the conversation at -2.
… so perhaps Adam Hadwin’s street-fighting par on 10 was the harbinger of a scrappy day. He sends his tee shot at the short 11th into the heart of the green, but rolls an excitable downhill 20-footer six feet past, and can’t make the one coming back. All of a sudden, debutant MJ Daffue has a three-stroke lead at the US Open!
