J.J. Spaun turned a sloppy mess of a U.S. Open at moist and nasty Oakmont right into a factor of magnificence on the finish Sunday with two gorgeous photographs that carried him to his first main championship.
First got here his driver on the 314-yard seventeenth gap onto the inexperienced for a birdie that gave him the lead. Needing two putts from 65 ft on the 18th to win, he completed this storybook week by holing the longest putt all week for birdie and a 2-over 72.
That made him the one participant to complete below par at 1-under 279. It gave him a two-shot victory over Robert MacIntyre of Scotland.
And it made Spaun, the 36-year-old Californian who resembles the late Pittsburgh Steelers nice Franco Harris, a serious champion in solely his second U.S. Open.
The rain that put Oakmont on the sting of being unplayable may need saved Spaun. One shot behind at first of the day, he opened with 5 bogeys in six holes. After which got here a rain delay of 1 hour, 37 minutes.
Spaun recovered as so many others fell aside.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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