JOEL DAHMEN

Travis Vick was already was an NCAA team champion at Texas.

The qualifiers who lingered among the leaders for 36 holes of the U.S. Open came back to reality in the third round.

Will Zalatoris and Matt Fitzpatrick share the lead in a U.S. Open that was more about survival.

Will Zalatoris got up-and-down from a greenside bunker on No. 18 to save par and finish his third round with the lead in the U.S. Open on Saturday.

In at least one important way, the halfway point of the 2022 U.S. Open doesn’t feel all that different from the day before it started.

The storm clouds never arrived at the U.S. Open.

Joel Dahmen is in the clubhouse at 5 under, good enough with a tie for the lead with Collin Morikawa.

For one day at least, the U.S. Open was wide open.

Adam Hadwin wasn’t officially in the U.S. Open until eight days ago.

Harris English has been a forgotten figure in golf the last few months.

FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay birdied the final four holes Friday for a 4-under 67 and take a two-stroke lead over Robert Streb halfway through the RBC Heritage.

Scottie Scheffler outlasted Ryder Cup teammate Patrick Cantlay on the third hole of a playoff in the WM Phoenix Open, making a 25-foot birdie putt that had just enough momentum to tumble in.

After 202 starts on the PGA Tour, Tom Hoge is finally a winner.

Jordan Spieth really was living on the edge at Pebble Beach.

Formula One racing got a huge boost in interest in North America through the Netflix series “Drive to Survive.”.

The leaderboard was mostly static in the third round of the PGA Championship, even though the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island played easier.

Phil Mickelson didn't have any trouble focusing at Quail Hollow.

Dustin Johnson holds up the FedEx Cup trophy after winning the Tour Championship golf tournament on Monday, Sept. 7, 2020 at Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

For the PGA Tour player of the year, the candidates were Johnson, Thomas, PGA champion Collin Morikawa (two wins), Webb Simpson (two wins) and Jon Rahm (two wins). Johnson won the Travelers Championship and The Northern Trust to go along with his FedEx Cup title he won at the Tour Championship. He also was runner-up to Morikawa at the PGA Championship. More interesting will be the vote for PGA Tour rookie of the year. ... Country singer Colt Ford, who once played professionally, is making his PGA Tour Champions debut on a sponsor exemption.

Tyrrell Hatton of England had one of six rounds at 63 as he tries to win back-to-back starts for the second time in his year. Abraham Ancer rode his strong iron play to a 65, while Ryan Palmer had a 66 to join the lead at 15-under 198. A week ago at the Charles Schwab Challenge, 14 players were separated by three shots going into the final round. The six rounds at 63 marked the third time since October that at least six players shot 63 in a round. There were seven such rounds at the RSM Classic in November, about 80 miles down the Atlantic coast at Sea Island.