02furyk;doesn’T;flinch
when a golfer begins the third round of a u.s. open tied for the lead and
ends it in the same situation, it is not exactly the same as treading water
in a dirty pool. there is a lot to like. for Jim furyk, he got one step closer
to achieving what many people thought he would have had by now: a
companion u.s. open victory to his 2003 triumph at olympia fields. at
the olympic club, during a pristine saturday afternoon on a course that
bruised the two men who shared the 36-hole lead with him, david toms
and tiger woods, furyk held steady. he shot an even-par 70 to go into the
final round of the 112th u.s. open tied with graeme mcdowell at one-
under 209. furyk rebounded from a lackluster two-over effort through six
holes, rightly reasoning that he wasn’t the only player in contention whose
start wasn’t as pretty as the weather. for the rest of the day, with the ex-
ception of a bogey on the mammoth par- 5 16th hole, furyk played the kind
of point-to-point golf that the lake course has dictated this week and that
has been the hallmark of his game for two decades. another day of cor-
rectly connecting the dots could make him the last man standing sunday
evening. “a closer is someone who just finds a way,” said furyk. saturday
gave him the chance to be that person. —Bill Fields (@BillFields1)
J.d. cuban
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