Article 5K9A1 US Open golf 2021: third round – as it happened

US Open golf 2021: third round – as it happened

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Scott Murray
from on (#5K9A1)

1.52am BST

Moving Day was fun ... and Sunday promises to be even better! Look at some of the names at the top of this leaderboard. Many a story to be told tomorrow. Hope you'll join us. Thanks for reading this blog. Nighty night!

-5: Hughes, Oosthuizen, Henley
-3: McIlroy, DeChambeau
-2: Scheffler, Rahm, Wolff
-1: Johnson, Morikawa, Bezuidenhout, Schauffele, Streelman
E: Casey, Poulter, Molinari, Im, Koepka, Thomas, English
+1: Spieth, Kaymer, Baker, Griffin, Harman, Westwood, Migliozzi, Bland

1.49am BST

After all that's happened, Bland, having dropped 85 yards away, whips a high wedge into the air, landing his ball 20 feet behind the pin, and screwing it back to five feet. What a shot! What moxie! So much pressure to get out of Dodge without any more damage. The crowd loved that. In goes the putt and that's a 77. Ah well. He ends the day at +1. Henley meanwhile sends his long bunker shot to 12 feet, then makes the putt coming back to save his par. How much could that up and down be worth tomorrow? He shares the 54- hole lead with Hughes and Oosthuizen.

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