The 'number one' and a four-stroke blow to change history

Four shots to change the course of history, just four shots to restore faith that world number one Scottie Scheffler can win the US Open. There are still 19 players below par on the course with the final 18 holes to go and Scheffler is one of them..

At around four in the morning in Spain, this major did not seem predestined to his showcases. Scheffler, at the time, was driving a -4, a world behind the leaders. After a good start on the 17th hole, a monstrous par 4 of more than 500 yards, the most difficult at the Los Angeles Country Club, he seized his 6 iron and from 178 meters he achieved the miracle of holeout. An eagle that made the Los Angeles field tremble.

The other final beast, the 18th hole, fell to the number one, who with a putt of about seven meters changed his destiny with a birdie. A blow of four shots in the last two holes that leave the Texan with -7, just three behind the leading duo.

Less hard than expected

Wyndham Clark (-1) and Rickie Fowler (even), with an accumulated result of -10, lead the table pending what happens on Sunday. Clark has never faced this situation, while Fowler has led with 18 holes to go twice in the past and both times, back in 2014, he finished second.

The third day in Los Angeles passed with more difficulties than the first two, but far from becoming the tough test that everyone expected. Nor was it on Saturday when the USGA turned the screw on the course, because perhaps the greens were a little harder, far from those Machiavellian conditions of 20 years ago that made the most patient despair..

Waiting for the outcome, stress again that there will be no Spanish leadership after the shipwrecks of our five representatives. Jon Rahm and Sergio García continue to be the best located in the classification. After two neat rounds of par and +1, respectively, they share 38th place in the standings, 12 shots behind the leaders. David Puig, third survivor after the cut, continued with his particular fight, with more suffering represented in a +5 card and the 59th position in the tournament.

McIlroy, again under par

A single blow from the head appears Rory McIlroy probably the most consistent of the entire tournament. The Northern Irishman returned to sign another lap yesterday under par (69). And it is that only three players have signed three cards this week below 70 strokes (McIlroy, Clark and Scheffler).

The best round on Saturday corresponded to the Korean Tom Kim. The most spectacular of his 66 strokes (-4) came in the first half of the course, which he completed with -7, with a record of 29 strokes over nine holes.. The Korean finished seven shots from the head.