Burns leads by one shot through 54 holes and will play with Scott in Sunday's final pairing. But a few big names dropped out of contention on Saturday.

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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 made six birdies and just one bogey in the second round, with his 65 the third-lowest score of all time in an Oakmont US Open. That left the American one shot clear of JJ Spaun

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.

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.