Sam Burns came into Friday knowing that he could play at Oakmont. He also knew what the course could do to him, having finished with three bogeys and one double bogey during Thursday’s opening round.

Sam Burns is leading the U.S. Open after becoming just the 12th golfer in Oakmont Country Club major golf history to card a 65 or better. Burns looked like a legitimate contender in Round 1 before going 5-over on the final four holes of his round to finish at 2-over and six shots back of the

Burns, statistically the world's best putter, hooped a clutch par save to shoot 65 Friday at Oakmont and enter this U.S. Open weekend at 3 under.

Burns avoids the late meltdown that cost him in the first round and has a one-shot lead after a long day that saw defending champ Bryson DeChambeau and Phil Mickelson miss the cut. Scottie

Sam Burns played one of the finest rounds of golf in a U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club in the early stages of Friday’s second round. Burns’ five-under 65, statistically speaking, came close to the best ever at Oakmont—the mythic final-round 63 Johnny Miller shot to win in 1973.

With that par, Burns set quite the marker for the rest of the field. He is one of two players, along with Viktor Hovland (-1), to get into the clubhouse after their second round in red figures for the week. He can now sit back and watch the rest of the leaderboard battle with Oakmont on Friday afternoon.

Sam Burns capped his second-round, 5-under 65 with a 22-foot par save on his final hole. Burns ran into trouble off the tee at the par-4 ninth, his 18th, and took a penalty-stroke drop into the fairway. He played his third shot safely onto the green and then perfectly read a big-breaking left-to-righter.

Reilly Opelka hammered 24 aces and knocked off top-seeded Daniil Medvedev of Russia 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) on Friday to advance to the Libema Open semifinals in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

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Former LSU Golfer Sam Burns Cards 5-Under Round at U.S. Open originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Former LSU golfer and PGA Tour winner, Sam Burns, had a day to remember on Friday when he carded a 5-under 65 at Oakmont to put himself firmly in contention for his first major title.