U.S. Open 2016 Leaderboard: Sunday Scores, Results and Analysis

The third round will resume Sunday morning with the final round to follow.

The Irishman, in search of his first major championship, began the final round leading by four shots over Dustin Johnson and Andrew Landry before a bogey at the par-4 second coupled with a birdie by Johnson at same hole whittled Lowry’s advantage to just two strokes.

Also three shots back were Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia, who between them have played 142 majors without winning.

The US Open descended into farce on Sunday after an incident involving Dustin Johnson left players, officials and spectators unsure of what his score was with just six holes to play. He was the betting favorite coming into the second major of the season, slightly ahead of defending champion Jordan Spieth, having finished in the top 10 of the last four majors and the top nine of the last three U.S. Opens.

The two Penn State alums in the U.S. Open, Kevin Foley (20-over) and T.J. Howe (9-over), both missed the cut Saturday, which landed at 6-over. Daniel Summerhays drove the 17th green and made eagle for a 69 to join Westwood at five shots back. Lee is two over after 14 holes of his third round to be eight over and tied for 51st while Wilkinson signed for a 75 in his third round to be 11 over and in 63rd place.

The majority of those at the top of the leaderboard at Oakmont will return early on Sunday to complete their third rounds, with the storm delays that effected day one in Pennsylvania still hampering the major event.

“Even out walking around the course this morning… you do think about that”, said world number 41 Lowry, a three-times victor on the European Tour who tied for ninth in last year’s U.S. Open at Chambers Bay. If I would have missed that, it would have been hard to get back from there.

“You’ve GOT to be kidding me!”

Of the 14 players who have at least made the turn in the final round, no one is under par.

“No nerves, very comfortable”, he said after finishing at 3 under through 13 holes.

He was at 1-over 211 and left the course six shots behind.

It was a further two strokes back to Spain’s Sergio Garcia and American Scott Piercy, who climbed up the leaderboard with back-to-back birdies to open his round.

Whatever momentum McIlroy generated disappeared on the par-4 4th, when it took him four jabs of the putter to get in from 13 feet.

Two shots behind was former Arkansas Razorback Andrew Landry, in his first U.S. Open and playing like he knows how to cope with the toughest test in golf. “I’ve never been that guy, so I’m always the guy that’s going to kind of just dink it around right there and make pars and throw in a couple birdies”. “I know how to handle it. So hopefully, the ball falls my way (today)”.

Australian Day completed his third round, a four-under-par 66, before darkness halted play on Saturday with the leaders still out on the course.