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If there was an award for most freakish shot of the US Open, Cameron Young surely has it sewn up with a day to go.
Young sprayed his tee shot on the par-4 10th into the trees on the left hand side, where his ball nestled itself perfectly in the ball holder in the dash of a cart used by an on-course presenter.
Amid calls from punters for him to play the ball as it lay, Young was allowed to remove the ball and take a free drop once the cart was moved.
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Young’s second shot went over the green, but he managed to get up and down for par. He eventually carded a two-under 68 to sit even par for the tournament in a tie for 20th.
For the Aussies, Min Woo Lee started the day only five shots off the lead, but endured a difficult day, carding a four-over 74 to fall down the leaderboard.
Xander Schauffele’s day got off to a nightmarish start when he took three shots to get out of a fairway bunker en route to a bogey on the par-5 opening hole.
Schauffele’s tee shot went 318 yards into a bunker on the left side of the fairway. His next shot hit the lip of the bunker, flew up in the air and landed several feet to his left. His third shot also hit the lip, flew up and landed near his feet.
He finally got out of the sand and made a two-metre bogey putt. The first was the second-easiest hole on the course in the third round.
Ricky Fowler and Wyndham Clark share the lead after the third round. Fowler made his biggest birdie when he sunk a 30-metre putt, and Clark responded with birdie on the last hole.
Fowler looked to have his first 54-hole lead in a major until he missed a short par putt on the final hole of the day to card an even-par 70. Clark shot a 69.
Rory McIlroy is still in the hunt with a 69, leaving him one shot behind the co-leaders. He will play in the second last group with world No.1 Scottie Scheffler.
Scheffler finished eagle-birdie for a two-under 68. He holed a 7-iron from about 180 metres on the 17th hole — which had only yielded four birdies all day — and finished with a lengthy birdie putt on 18.
The final round gets under way early Monday morning AEST.
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