Third-round 70 sees Lowry move up leaderboard; Tom McKibbin posts fine 71 to also move up
Shane Lowry gets a face full of sand as he plays from a bunker on the third hole during the third round of the US Open at Pinehurst in North Carolina. Photograph: Cliff Hawkins/Getty Imageswith a broad grin after posting a level-par 70 to reach the three-quarter point of the championship on five-over-par 215 that enabled him to make upward progress up the leaderboard to its mid-ranks.
“I’m going to go home and lie on the couch for a few hours,” said Lowry, laughing. “Another round of level par and it will be a great tournament I think. If I somehow manage to shoot under par it will be better obviously. All in all, it has been a good first three days. The tournament didn’t start the best, front nine on Thursday, but since then I have been pretty good.
His birdies on the sixth and the 16th were especially against the head, on two of the toughest holes. And after his birdie putt on the 17th from 40 feet grazed the cup, there was a well-thought par save on the 18th where his approach rolled back off the green and he was left some 55 feet from the pin. He opted to putt into the grainy slope, and executed brilliantly which left him a short putt for the par save.
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