Burns, a 28-year-old from Louisiana, has five PGA Tour titles, the last one more than two years ago. Despite that, he leads the quartet under par through 54 holes.

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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.

Surges On Day 2 With Strong Performance

Burns has been playing some of his best golf of the year heading into the 2025 U.S. Open, after losing in a playoff to Ryan Fox at the RBC Canadian Open June 8. He hopes he can ride that momentum through Sunday. Here is a look at how Sam Burns has done at the four golf majors in his career.

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.

Moving Day holds a bit different meaning at a U.S. Open at Oakmont, as there were not many low scores to be had in Saturday's third round. Instead the field was fighting mostly to avoid moving backwards on the leaderboard and hoping the leaders may come back to them.