2012 U.S. Open: Final Round, Back Nine

hi everyone I'm Dave Giancola joined again by Mike Trostle for another US Open Classic finish the US Open returned to the Olympic Club in San Francisco for the fifth time in 2012 Tiger Woods shared the lead through 36 holes but Mike he fell back with a third round 75 at Dave the final day appeared to be shaping up for a duel between two past US Open champions 2003 winner Jim Furyk and 2010 champ Graeme McDowell but both players lost shots to par early in the front nine allowing Webb Simpson and John Peterson to post a score early and sit back in watch let's join McDowell and Furyk on the 11th hole really find a birdie if you can get it Furyk at 11 Webb Simpson at 14 with a second sips of just one back Harrington to back location at 18 and very dangerous if you happen to come up short down the hill if you go short left spin it could come back 40 yards we won't see that happen yet those things going to happen if you don't pull it off in Barry spinning back on the wave spin it back on the left to having good rehearsal we're insects closest call on a US Open came at Wingfoot and everybody had their crashes down the stretch he finished bogey bogey bogey he wound up fifth oh come back before his at 18 we go to Ernie else at 13 edho intent on the way he's looking like it's going out that is the end of his chances he happen to hit that flag somehow stop it what a shot back to 11 a good look for Graeme McDowell it has not made a birdie all day that is really good maybe he'll come alive up to 16 John Peterson now with his fourth found the rough off the tee and couldn't get it out in two played two here and three as well right so he'll have that left for his par Peterson just to over and too bad awesome back to 14 in Webb Simpson made his wife doubt left their little son James at home with his grandparents and doubt is more than seven months pregnant yet another baby due in early August but she has pretty much watched every shot that I have seen out here right now they have this breaks left the whole way doesn't a mark yeah it does Johnny is probably you know I'd say 30 to do just inside 30 foot range there's not a huge break but it's definitely make a book but yeah this part of the green is actually pretty flat down the stretch long season and reduce the clinical PGA to win score top five six tens a little slower start that we might have expected at I Webb Simpson at 2012 Oh 216 John Peterson now with that putter cover stuffed in his back pocket for par a huge putt this would be is that quick let's get picking up a little speed job let's go to 18 zip it up the applause as it comes up to 18 but when it gets probably didn't think it was buried like it is well he's got expressive eyes - doesn't he tan will make it run a mile with that sharp kick to the right but also running the rough not bad you'll have a tough angle on that second shot though maybe it's a blessing you just keep it to the left Peter don't get tempted Roger yeah good look here the little window you've got a driver through you've got to go underneath the canopy of those huge cypress trees and it's about 15 yards wide well you have the wind coming this way that's one of the biggest problem and you just have to hit it straight you can't afford a draw because you could hit the tree there and you can't cut it and hit that tree so this is one drive that you want to hit whether it may be a tiny little draw but pretty straight is the shot down the left side and let the wind move it a little to the right so easy to lose it right on this hole for the faders there's one thing about Furyk he can hit it and cut it and he can hook it at will see if pressure starts to get into him at all he's a pretty steely guy and it's headed up the left no it's not a good shot but the green opens up from over there if he doesn't have a tree but take a look at the pro tracer on this as you said John you just need to hit a straight bullet what Rocky was trying to turn that back into the slope of the fairway and he's trying to let the people know his ball is gonna hit him in the head if it walked out you see watch him turned down the club just late made a good turn there but his arms went too far down the target line and he flipped it over a bit to 18 they had the price for the mistake he got very unlucky there that now he's got a big clump of grass behind the ball and he really needed to make birdie on this hole I think they had a chance I think so I'm sixteen this needs to go in for Peterson he seems so casual you know like you know that's the youth I guess but it's like first US Open he's just getting started into a Carrera he's got a lot of challenges got great things ahead of him he's gonna get a lot of sponsors exemption but you can see the reaction how much he wanted that he missed a little planet last we haven't talked about a little bit now trying flat 160 i think cool fools 165 once was 6 or 56 schools the basics 43 6 8 52 52 we love minute we have to fly at least 52 52 points 62 or 60 at 68 sixty others only kid before multicon bitten my ears taking decades it was right that yes relationship yeah Sasori aesthetic that's so much deception and you could see how much he relies on it like that he knows that over is dead because I was there and down in that Barker behind the green it is totally dead so in front of the hole it's a birdie hole riding that's why it started just right the flag is coming back it could be the one that catches Furyk at a bar he's the only player in the final nine twosomes who is under par today so that's good stuff this needs to go in-depth this has to go in to get in at +2 that's where Michael Thompson is right now was to become a 14th player to win three of the four majors for sure points to so that's what you see here is your posture 60 60 50 60 area the good second shot he was eight shots back after the sixth hole before Harrington came charging with those three straight birdies to end his front nine and what about a report on Furyk Roger well he got a terrific break on the left side of 12 here has 184 left of the hole but his balls found kind of a bald spot in the rough and he's gonna be able to get the club on it he has no tree issues Johnny and he'll be able to chase this ball onto the green if he wants I mean he could hit an 8-iron or something and just land it well short and let it tremble up that's the kind of things that gotta happen sometimes to just eke out a win isn't it yeah I mean that could have been against the tree it could have been a terrible lie and see if he takes advantage of it wait takes the yardage what guy just looks at it real quick puts it right back it is that to reassure himself what he's trying to pull off tact is good it's on the good line it's got to bounce hard though I didn't want to go right yeah that's very on the down slope of the bunker would no green to work with that's probably a bogey right there for even a great bunker player like Furyk yeah just don't green to work with that lag they do it immediately you can see how long his arms are an extension I thought it was gonna whack somebody there yeah you don't see a lot of emotion out of Furyk that anger to Roberto Verde else at 14 Dottie you laid up off the tee of those 18 degrees were a hybrid driving I heard combo club 133 left Oh totally lunar your daughter Alijah this should come off a little shower the wedge that to get the plus one off the lead the ferrets having his problems at 12 he'd go to there with McDowell in a second just a 120-pound cleric down this is left to behold he wants it down for birdie so Jim Furyk and a whole lot of trouble in the greenside bunker on the ride up you while we're back in the fairway green side bunker with Jim Furyk and he's not even looking at the pin he's going out way left with his third to the right could you turn second shot and he knew that's why he you know that he was gonna slam his club okay the birdie putt for Webb Simpson at 15 to tie Furyk for the lead and he's have a problem so he kind of stroke he wanted to put on it a little left for him coming back saving people he accomplished the first two days again tied for the lead but good game just left it over at 14 or any else for birdie Dottie it's a putt that is slower than it looks like it got to countering factors here the slope just kind of buddy could I not been just a right edge but four holes left for else go to 15 for the comebacker for Simpson to remain at +1 it was just earlier we go to 12 Roger this is this has got to go in or we have a tie ballgame yeah this is a little over 30 feet to his right on the way down there it's pretty slow in most GTA's here at control maintains is one-shot John when you look back on these major championships if you happen to win you think well it all boiled down to it's like this presents pressured putz he and his caddy Mike Allen you talk about experience these guys have a lot of years under their belt that's impressive that that is one impressive up and in and this could go down to he sees he knows the line now he loves the back nine 7-under Ram the dowel holes within one of our leader take another look at this this is straight in front ask that straight perfect speed we've seen a lot of players leave as sharp for the obvious he had a good read via the on but the speed from here that whole that was exciting Oh put that one and over on 16 now Webb Simpson looks like he's going off the tee with a 3-wood just gotta be cured Amaka yeah the fairway way to Lonnie's yeah in a draw with the three medal not wait tonight 10 yards tomorrow and that's not where you want to hit that's a big mess that's untouched rough right there so already elsewhere the nine iron off the tee at 15 we essentially have five players in the championship hunt here five with it to annuity turning might get a little left yeah you have to know folks you watch these players right now and they don't look nervous I'm telling you they are so amped up you can't believe it you know to win a US Open changes your life about winning three Bernie can get it done well Ernie's got like a second career right now for him to win it's like doing it for the first time two guys up there with a chance to win it for the second time the whole location at 13th it's been a stingy one just two birdies recorded here all day this is a hard shot Gary you know look at the shot you got trees right you got big balls from Kennedy seeking these little green crosswind that graphic Johnny you were touching on how well he's played the back nine at the 17 shot difference but this is pressure right here you can't undercut it like a hot little air interface that's until not hoist available I mean he's definitely so firm I agree with pictures something good 5 which the reasons moving the other way too much show us it has to her later has a little bit yeah it's gonna it's 200 one of these and yeah it's more the shape for me yeah six excuse me who wants to really play that left-right shot for club he tells me he's gonna try to cut this that's for sure the flavors speak to at the tree itself no divot whatsoever there it came up out of it at 18 then this was just earlier Tiger finishing up with a birdie chance we'd end up making that putt final round 73 it's going to be for Tiger hard to sum up what happened is fading ages ago by the covers going to be to beat jacks record at 18 professional majors at 17 John Peterson has come back with two brilliant shots here three in the role that he could have made 15 Ernie Els for birdie seize it beer right at the end it's gonna stay in +2 to back 13 Purex tee shot on play just fired and this is working left to right it's just a little too far right as well very thick rough both Dow and Jim Furyk have missed the green at the par-3 13th the miracle car at the 12 mains if one chef lead over McDowell and Webb Simpson in for the last all Furyk first about that far says not so fast Jim Furyk don't count me out you 13 Jim Furyk words second shot here at the par 3 Roger look chance to look at the lie yeah the lie is not terrible but the green looks away from him he was really good from right to left got a Gordon named Gary yes he's had a slice but but he is number one is scrambling 14 out of 21 times he got it up in number one in the field want to keep doing that having to do that over these last few holes no you can see we go to 16 where Ernie else is on the tee see how this dogleg left turns around the high knees and Ernie with a 3-wood you gotta keep this in the fairway or thing have mulberries like that back to 13 foul was his bunker shot same problem green works away from him that care of fast that means this band plus two look looks a little better ah but you do have some variable holes eatable holes no ahead well we showed you tiger finishing up and just after his round Jimmy Roberts had a chance to talk to Tiger alright Tiger the week started in such promising fashion for you 69 and 70 but the weekend things seemed to change what happened what do you think oh yes I was just a touch off and that's fine I'll still in the ball game but today I just got off to a horrific start and just never never got to going early and unfortunately put myself out of it your numbers with fairways were good your numbers with greens and regulation were good it seems that when they changed the setup on the greens though that that might have thrown you a little bit true not really no it was just I was just a fraction off as I said yesterday I was it was amazing how many times I got just a half club you know I was right between clubs all day and you know also yesterday I struggle with the speed and today was different today I felt great on the greens unfortunately discs off to a bad start I understand that you'd be disappointed but what's your state of mind after something like this happens wow there's a lot of positives to be taken away from this week a lot of positives and just kind of play all right Tiger thanks very much best of luck or shit see all the beat down it's only really fair oh thank you that's perfect but I was sitting there and get you feeling go when you're ready with his third and you can see that hole location on the front left boy he's got a great look at this he does Peter 81 yards got a tremendous break after his tee shot came to rest on an electrical box got relief from was able to delve into some thinner rough than he would have been less ball is sitting just a little down though in the intermediate cut here just have to be a little careful you don't want to miss this left there's a big closing moment area left with a flag and she gonna probably with six eight feet right of the hole yeah this has got to be short and right I that's good show it's a little careful that's a little too safe I think 13 mcdowell for a par just earlier live Furyk and this breaker to the right as well back up healed slightly wanders on by I was not a good strong set there's a lot going on here Jason Dufner at 17 like the putt for an eagle 3 is gonna move him to +2 13 and Roger this one wandered on by the whole little ways yeah once it got turned right it just kept going and this one now I'll have a little movement to the left in it not one to be taken lightly I'll promise you that Tibet has improved putting this year last year 150 of the PGA Tour the putting stats so far this year 24th get it very hard in the off season tie at the top at +1 Michael Thompson course attention the clubhouse a plus 2 over at 16 look how thick this reference is here - its 16th hole today is a hundred yards shorter than in yesterday - 17 goes to the 18th and the hundred and twelfth US Open Championship is brought to you by John Hancock talk to your financial advisor by the all-new Lexus RX escort and by world elite MasterCard well the Sun never broke through that marine layer like I explained that it might have had a chance they do that makes it double inning say daddy gets on the bottom that we're suspenseful 17-3 left go left Americans are only want to outlast eight US Opens in case I want to know harlots what the last two it's cutting right this might need a hop left if it's gonna get to the fairway all sitting up though that's a good break all right the number is plus two right now Michael Thompson the leader and Matt Peterson a short out of it +3 what a week for Peterson though even par final round today mark over on 16 green now Webb Simpson this for birdie and the outright lead and if he has to be a little careful Peter it is very fast when it gets to the hole back to 14 Puran every club as well here directory was still up the right side he wants this whole group plus five combined Furyk plus one for the championship tied with Webb Simpson you the bay area at this US Open and Tiger Woods Phil Mickelson never could get going so the rest of the leaderboard began to take shape is Lee Westwood's hopes of breaking through for a first major to finished it's been a US Open type of test with all sorts of players in the hunt getting down to the foul just a handful merge with a chance to wear the coveted US Open trophy ship during time with Webb Simpson at plus one in the hundred and twelve addition there is Simpson on the tee at the 17.5 that very difficult to do in fact the toughest fairway on the back nine to hit 40% I'm all fear slope from left to row this is a dry at the left-hand side one good bounce would really help we get it I guess here it comes here it comes it's beautifully done new carry it's interesting at short hitters and Lee Janzen and Scott Simpson went here last two times and all the short hitters that are leading alle guys are leading they're all short hitters at 16 ills now just run back with a novel to line hang on looks like fire goes that is a collection area down there about six feet below the putting surface and that's big trouble the 14th that's the line McDonough logic I've think I'd the nine bases 77 but this one looks to me like it could be a jumper here that fairways lately that's just pressure that's all it is as straight as he normally hits it that's all it is I came out pretty fast it's peeling a little right though just out of the bunker Roger yes it's in the grass just out of the bunker job in there ruff didn't miss out by much what a two feet left and let it bounce left along the oh yes it would have crawled up onto the green it wasn't got back to the hole I don't believe Ben would have crawled up onto the green feared now 173 I'll sit down are just just fine it's just fine no problems here only issue generally you'd have to worry about now is this turned into a bit of a mist and now there's a little moisture in the grass over to 16 daddy he's got he decided on putter you can hit a lot of shots about here you can but there was never a question about hitting anything else he has to go up on with the steepest part of this Hill here remember Ernie ELLs make triple bogey eight here on the 16th and the first round I watched Keegan Bradley did the same thing tried to putt it from down there earlier in the round and just didn't hit it hard enough almost could be considered the third shot and the fourth rookie mistakes back 49 well else was playing 60 this was Furyk at the 14th big-ass bird The Hustler of the 17 year old teenager here finishing up second has drifted back tisha and I did it downhill to this front-left hole location so give me a tough up and end Jim Furyk no birdies yet today the last time a US Open champion didn't make a birdie in the final round 1954 that Balthus fall was the first US Open televised by USA photography he has been grinding Jason Dufner needs a birdie at 18 to get to that +2 number which leads a good one but this holes playing tough anything I think seemed like a 4-0 location but the guys seem to be psyched out 516 ELLs now for bogey 17 pretty good success at 1700 it's a joke it's worth it he's made an eagle earlier in the day on number 7 so 14 McDowell in his third Roger not a good lie here this is long and thick all sitting down stuff from the control down on it and just hit sort of a chunk and run isn't deaf is sort of just really hard to get the right distance so easy to leave it 10 feet shorter maybe haven't come out quicker than you think last across yeah yeah I rely like a tie as you said it was thick bad break literally if that sec show is a foot left or two feet left it would have gone on the green but watch how this grass absolutely stops the club in and we look at that sobic doll with a long par pot upcoming after coming off bogey at 13 and the third for both class were here at 18 if he gets a pilot home and rolls off their goodwill 60 yards down the hill its led to the right a little and her honors here seven they're gonna really correct lien down speed speed it's gonna be the low ammeter shot a 70 today and back over to 14 for pure a trot and a long one here this is gotta be 40 feet to his left and straighten up in the area the job Webb Simpson is set at eight that's perfect positioned absolutely perfectly off the tee it's not a long shot either Gary 209 and the wind really not a factor right now to the front trap draw you get strongly too much stuff start is okay didn't get too far about five yards to work with he was trying to chase it in there wasn't any sir yes there's a good tracker that's a pretty small opening to be chasing it up at 18 high-speed he's got nothing to hang his head about this week it's been a sensational run for him over at 14 McDonald for par this has got some speed mm-hmm he's a danger to drop into danger of dropping out of his chances less he does something miraculous else at 17 go to the right hand side of the t's self-willed with more of an angle the set a new T that put in specifically to make the tea shadow a little bit more difficult tougher angle he looks it over we'll go up to 18 Jason Dufner who needs this to go down to tie the leader of the clubhouse tops and at the plus tune upper swing to the left it's quick killing it short donar she could have won this championship no problem with better pudding was number one in Green's hit no Platts hardly McDowell for bogey at 14 it's a tough little putt to read miss Michael a little left on him just a little ways away from bounding up on that green it's just a game of inches and a game of breaks and McDowell now with back-to-back bogeys after back-to-back birdies Furyk to remain at +1 tied for the lead tops of the clubhouse one back but down has slipped into a time plus three which he hopes is his last stroke at this championship missed the cut the only last year and Congressional the only thing he did wrong I think is say publicly I've changed my goal so I'm gonna I think I got a chance to win he should have just kept that to himself why do you mean it just seems like a kiss of death when you say that well you just wanted to make the dream even bigger maybe it's 1618 as he was trying to become the youngest major champion professionals Texas the low ammeter and over at 17 and this was just earlier dan was on the tee at the par 5 is going right it's what has plagued arias championship been able to drive the ball in the fairway I don't know if it might get to where the painful but it's all the way down the bottom it might be okay they might go to get on from there and fees lucky right big bunker shot here third shot for Simpson this could be the win the US Open this shot right here under 38 at or in Samson's or strength that gets it up and down about 44 percent of the time makeable foot stops back to 15 in Zurich Roger Jim's got an 8 iron out all the way in the back part of the green here when still moving moving in a little right to left almost feels like it may be hurting mr. shade turning the left side of the green 160 Hey just over the 60 shot for any central buck duck and it's off the right six off the right here part of run that's pretty much it for that 60 show relations Barney somewhere in here I like the shot shake left to right going at this whole town I shoot come up short there's only problem it's holding its line pretty much over 2:17 here at Olympic grab some some taking a long look mark a putt that moves left to right but fortunately every player I've seen hit it from this position seems to over read it well you know it's just outside of 15 feet I would say 16 feet of this work the 71st hole of the US Open I think he'd be at least 50/50 to make it common theme Webb Simpson has only managed to birdie the 17th hole once this week sure could difference in this whole thing could be fear at birding 17 and Simpson not burning them he has such a good putter to Johnny and you think about the putts that he has failed to hole particularly the one at 50 it's tough to make birdies when you're that nervous Gary yeah I would think so John no question let's go to 15 not a day that continues to resemble his home town a port brush in Northern Ireland a mist has been falling across Olympic full around most of the afternoon Jenny I guess you'd call it foggy well it's just sort of that's what my wife says how's the weather she says it's foggy down here for a birdie ROG and the players were informed after their tee shots here they were asked to pick up their pace again they are behind and out of position and it's the second time they've been asked and if they do not pick it up from this point forward they will get put on the clock but not at this point in time this goes just slightly left doesn't yes yes it will move a little bit to the left toward the lake I call it slightly uphill del now needs to do some amazing things from here to them how so to speak at +3 came up short it looked like it had the steam to get there and it actually came back to the right at the ball which is impossible to see I bet was out there this morning second shot 230 yards of the hill chase get out windy open out wait ten hours wide neck 15 and Furyk for birdie I think this putt from the left side agreed more uphill John but if anything I would think would want to move all right yeah it does and he pushed it also makes it break more all right Simpson on the tee the short par-4 it's at up it's like TWP almost that's a break there was a little control of that uphill approach coming up back at 15 Furyk for par is to remain tied with Simpson and again Furyk has back-to-back par-5s coming up the long 16th the very variable even with Eagle possibilities at 17 a good stroke from here wrong the US Open contenders were living welcome back Jim Furyk has reached the 16th tee and so important to put this ball in the fairway that's the Palmer shot from 1966 right there that is just a flat duck hook Wow I've never seen him hit a ball that obliquely left I mean that was one bad swing right there what's this I've never seen him do that Roger Graham now never comfortable to see at a shot like that and then have to play this ball cutting a little bit to the right up the right-hand side this probably needs to get down on that line not bad it's okay the tee is up a hundred and one yards today folks from yesterday 217 just earlier Peter this was Parnell's with his third shot Oh so using an open-faced food obviously distance-wise we're just trying to fly it at the pin I'll just get that 30-footer back at it so everybody stay committed because I don't see how he can get this ball close unless it lands just over the bunker it is a good lie for the rough that I wasn't sit sir Tinley not the worst one I've seen over but there is quite a bit of grass right in front of all the flag folks it's right there tied for the lead from left that flag sit down like where is that number 18 with that hole location is not easy especially from the rough back to 72 egg pluck for Ernie Els tough one to read here Johnny actually wants to go a little tight back at 16 Roger what's going on out there well he's drawn a decent lie I could have really been worse if you can believe that but problem is he's blocked on the left-hand side by trees from advancing the ball very far off the fairway he does have a slight opening if he tries to play up over a cypress tree in front of him which very little room it would gain Samarin so it's still going to take two more swings after he plays this shot to get to the to get to the green Roger we're looking at a replay a Jim's tee shot and it just douve into the trees and dropped straight down over there I'll get can he get it far enough to where he could get it irony no don't think he can advance the ball far enough any way shape or form to have a chance at hitting the screen with his third do you ever think you'd see it drive like a 3-wood by Furyk like that shot no no that's I've never seen him in a shot like that certainly remember he tried to draw it on 12 and hit it in the left trees right feed her on your hole and this was a duck hook though yeah this is a this was a disastrous one yeah yeah disastrously he's not looking at your little hole in the tree this is a time Johnny and a major championship where you feel like you've got a great shot you're tied for the lead and you hit a shot like that I'm say oh no I got a lot of work ahead of me to get to that clubhouse well I learned one thing in all the years on tour is when you get in trouble get out of trouble here why's your mistake well you don't want to go from trouble to more trouble if he plays up across this tree I still don't think he could advance it far it have any chance to reach it with his third so looking right there right now yeah he's thinking I have to be able to reach the green in three and I just now he's going back to the safe shot smart grandma gal downslope not a good little break there up to 18 bit what does web Simpsons like what I don't think so we just want looking for Malaysia actually and it could it be an old drain or anything like that just look at everything that's just we're didn't get water okay if it was an old sprinkler head area could I get relief okay unless somebody deemed a ground under the best time you can test to make sure there's not one under there almost looks like we only know how they pull around sod on it can you test them do you okay like and you kind of helping this - I just touch it you probe it okay nice yeah you got webbed asourian one right at those old sprinkler heads very it's usually around in terrain right there yeah it's totally round in shape Dan so if something was going on there is a depression now the issue is there's a huge clump of grass behind this ball it's never easy is it mark it seems like to win your major your first major you got all kinds of little hurdles that are thrown at you that even though Simpson won twice last year really at one point was a candidate for Player of the Year with that incredible stretch he had down the final 2011 season he's just Easton majors of a high tech bunker shot that's the most important shot of this golfing liner right here we can get this up and in if you put a lot of pressure on fear because first probably gonna make six at 16 thank you Tom but and if he wins the US Open it won't be a big upset or surprise before he gets this we go to Furyk at 16 his third at about 340 to the hole so this just the club hybrid trying to get the ball in play he's done it good shot here to 18 staring into a hillside with thousands of people with a US Open on the line yeah scholarship and we've all been documented all week long how Arnold let a US open slip away on this very golf course in 1966 it's a 17 just earlier this was Lee Westwood with his second shot up the hill at the par-5 it was three the evil are moving to plus four but they stayed the fourth shot Gary for Nicholas concerts who had designs on making a run for his native country of Belgium but got off to a horrendous four straight bogeys for coal certs who began today just three off the lead and just was never able to recover even though he played decent golf since that string of bogeys early in Webb Simpson now has six back today after the fifth hole and he has turned it on citizen two under par for the day really good plan Simpson trying to become the second player to win a major with a chest anchored lon Potter Keegan Bradley the first at the pga last august Simpson has been using this long putter since his days at Wake Forest and this does have break left to right doesn't mark I think he's got to get it outside the hole Johnny it is not an easy putt for a four footer I mean you just can't get a more ticklish putt he's got to commit you might be able to make it left edge if he really hits it flush that is correct less Dirac gets it up and in only player under par and the final nine groups if Simpson wins it certainly has earned it 68 on the weekend Jim Furyk at 16 Roger we always knew we fought 16 would play a pivotal role in determining this year's US Open champion and it doesn't look like we were wrong it always seems to insist a brilliant par 5 Jim Furyk now has 112 yards left for his fourth shot well we know how good he is with this club he could knock this for a leaner needs to a little trampoline and spun dead back hard looked like it got a good bounce and then a bad break overall he's got a lot left for his par he's taking another look at that bounce kicked it front forward and left John and then they spin hit it you could hear it at contact that he did not compress that ball totally that's why I hit short of the green now McDowell forget about this guy just to back 105 yards on his third rot and needs a couple of birdies though 105 good angle here from the right there's the sound you want well in the air that's right of the hole spent too cautious at this point in the championship to 18 and this was earlier Bernie else happy behold this shot to get to that plus one lead in the clubhouse from the rough and really a poor tee shot 156 in it's also impossible little shot that's which the price you paid as little 18th all is flat kicking in it so it's boiled down to Jim Furyk it's a sick stuff of whole today this little hole Jim Furyk Webb Simpson and grab McDowell it's Martha blue 72 players in this field right now and birdies on now with 17 waiting and eight teams got to variable holes less Jim chips this in he's gonna be one back of our leader wet Simpson see what he's got left there what Roger about 3035 feet on this chip I'd be about right Peter maybe just more than that and certainly the kind you you know a player thinks about making you see that quick quick look you took hit the board he said earlier he said he wasn't gonna be scoreboard watching today but he certainly took a peek right there and this board shows Simpson is in as finished at plus one so he knows for certain Furyk is pretty good from these positions around the green got a little left now for that boat go back 18 pretty else from tough down real downhill he did a good job when he was in the lead 12 days to play a couple years ago on the beach when grant McDowell prevailed but he faded down the stretch it faded down the stretch here but he's gonna come up short in his bid for a third US Open title as we go back to McDowell at 16 the gals putting right toward that leaderboard Rogers so you know he's taking a look well he knows as well there's no secrets now I know exactly what's ahead of them and what they need to do this is a putt we've been watching all day and it just breaks more to the left and the players are judging well I'm nervous on about you Roger and Peter but pretty pretty intense stuff right here these holes that got so many option you make birdie you can make bogey like Furyk gotta make it just for a six and whether you're have the opportunity to play in a US Open or to watch it like these thousands of spectators it's it's always exciting so this should break probably about maybe two possibly three cups from the right to the left Oh 2:18 a Telstra par describe each planet so two bogeys in the last three holes for Ernie had a chance because back-to-back that's worth a token title but 72 final round for ELLs plus 4 back to Furyk now this left for his bogey 6 this is a sweaty palm putt got a head no no there's not but it just he has to have a job yeah you're right you could go the next orbit 6:14 thermicon 16 and we have a new leader at the top Webb Simpson at 1-over as well as played as a third most difficult 405 in the last 25 years at a 5.4 average and the T was up 101 yards today it's just got so much history and so much difficulty you've missed a fairway and we've seen it grab a lot of players never seen anybody on the green in two I thought they might do it today I did too I was waiting for someone to hit it in two and nobody did not much movement here maybe inside left Raj yes I wouldn't give up to come at all stays two back of our leader Webb Simpson going 217 first time since Friday afternoon that Jim Furyk hasn't had at least a share of the lead in this US Open well if he doesn't win this open he'll remember that tee shot on 16 the rest of his life so there's the board Webb Simpson on top with his second straight 68 of the weekend plus one will it be good enough Jim Furyk has the short par-5 17th coming up so two holes left for him grab McDowell the only other competitor with a chance at +3 Lee Westwood finishing up will have to wait another time for him his major title +4 through 17 had that ball that got caught up in the tree at the 5th hole and never really contended after that even though he did just eagle the 17 not Tigers weekend at all Jordan speed from Texas is the low ammeter at this US Open only six subpar rounds today and out to the tee at 17 and either of these two players have had great success here at the 17th they just want birdie the par-5 1st three rounds because 510 yards easy par 5 if you play it right on Gary with a lot of pressure down needs to find the fairways only hit before 12 so far today this from the guy who leads the PGA Tour in driving accuracy normally around 73% of the fairways and needs a three you have to be in the fairway really to have a realistic shot at three good heart swing that's right it that's going down there right that's gonna be much right kind of figure yeah I mean John the guy obviously drives the ball well a regular basis but not today sure nice birdie here and he's looking at a chance to birdie 18 and win it outright remember the showed on the last hole you forget the shot hit a little a stall down the right side for a draw so much for my left right you started it after overhead and turning this is gonna probably pound right into the rough as well and all there's that large cut first cut there it's double the normal amount and that's what it's fatter also it shouldn't be too bad coming down to the 71st hole 12th playing of the US Open Championship Jim Furyk looking for a birdie Claire McDowell looking for an eagle and Webb Simpson safely in the house precious Doug that trophy Johnny and he was gonna get the chance to hug it today at Olympic Webb Simpson in at plus one the lead yeah well pressure rain Gary or will we see some heroics well there on the hole where heroics are possible that's for sure we've seen eagles made today there have been four recorded already 13 for the week it's definitely an eagle hole location that's about as easy to get on this green so a good shot can put you right there underneath the hole for makeable Eagle I've heard a chance to look at Furyk sly yeah well first is enough yeah settled just ever so slightly but the lies okay certainly well they're probably getting enough clubbing the ball to get it there but as to 22 left up the hill and it feels like a little bit into the breeze temperatures drop that's pretty cold past seven o'clock out here at night yeah oh yeah this plays longer than yardage I would hazard this is playing 240 take useless uphill pretty get bit - yes it is it's shorter at the two bunkers that not good very awkward bunker shot about 40 yards I had McDowell next he's got to 19 and we're all sitting down and Gruffalo but he's got a hybrid Club I'm just gonna try to see if he can get some kind of bullet to chase on it - he'll know this is started left and it's not really cutting means aha left greenside bunker certainly a much easier shot than Furyk let's join Bob Costas all right and I'm joined by Webb Simpson 68 yesterday 68 today at present a one-shot lead how nerve-wracking is it to sit here and watch it's pretty nerve-racking I'm glad my wife's here with me in the booth God's right over there but you know it was a it was just a cool day I had a piece all day I knew that there's a tough golf course of what I'm gonna yield many birdies and I had to go out and and do as well as I could and I probably prayed more the last three holes and I've ever done in my life and you know that really helped me stay calm and ultimately get in it 200 you did it with a run of three straight birdies four and a five hole scratch let's begin with your second job at six and you take us through it yeah this was a full kind of high hold 7-iron that landed I landed in the rough and just worked out perfectly and twelve down to about five feet made that for birdie after another birdie at 7 we pick it up at 8 and here's the putt for your third consecutive birdie my caddie really helped me here because he watched a lot of golf and said that nice I was kind of short so bit of hard 6-iron and I made a great play you make the turn here's your second shot at 10 yeah this was an accident we were trying to go about 15 feet left of the hole and it came out right and luckily the simply welcome there and there's the birdie now this is your third shot at 18 yeah that's something prior to that yeah this was a actually good good wreck off the team they're just a funny I'm sitting in a dead hole the size of a spring spring curl ahead and not my hand check it if in fact you wind up winning this US Open at Olympic every story somewhere is gonna include the fact that you were an Arnold Palmer scholar at Wake Forest and that one of the most crushing defeats heartbreaking defeats of his entire career came right here in 66 when he blew a big lead against Billy Casper and ultimately lost in a playoff yeah you know Arnold's been so good to me obviously playing under his scholarship at wake but you know just the other day Monday or Tuesday I read that story and thought about it and you know he's meant so much to me and Wake Forest that you know hopefully if I win I can get a little back for him and it'll make him smile I'm out of the outcome great going today thank you let's go back out to 17 ready for his third shot seven of nine times but look too far behind again was just such an awkward distance to know he had to hit that nice thought take another look at the contact here being on the upslope is almost a disadvantage Johnny it's harder to carry the ball as far as he needed to Dowell next certainly the easier the to bunker shots in my opinion has plenty of green to work with but it'll move away from you to the right Roger were you a little surprised with the club selection there for Furyk on the second shot before iron didn't seem like enough Club I didn't it was enough club either I didn't as heavy as this areas I thought a hybrid club would have been a much better selection now I would agree to imagine but it's actually easier to play from over the green if you go straight through the make it a trek around 11:00 Gary seven months pregnant do it early August with their second child this would be a great Father's Day present for Webb they used to put like number 12 dozen me Gary he does John hard to read it breaks right but just not quite as much as most people think shake it ahead that was just very surprising to see that come up that far short you know every shots been disappointing on this whole for him so far Dallin needs to make this putt and then birdie the 18th to get the +1 what about this one Roger well let's run a very similar line it's gonna move a little bit to his right but it is uphill got to hit it firm enough there's no question about that much easier putt from this yes much much I mean this is definitely makeable putt we have seen it make a lot of clutch ones that's for sure back into 10 2010 in season you need to hit it firmly that's one thing I know the girl the +2 shot behind I was very impressive there we go still has a chance our for so it has come down to the 70s out here and Johnny you mentioned it earlier as a teen not a whole that has really yielded many birdies today just six birdies so far Furyk at plus-2 McDowell at +2 both need one to tie Webb Simpson in a +1 well first things first if you're gonna make birdie at the 18th hole you better hit the fairway number one but imagine the six toughest hold of this little hole ver there's a front-left hole location there we've been seeing that nobody has even got it near the hole so can one of these guys play a great 18th hole 72nd hole we're gonna see and take a look at this hole location it's just over that you can't see the bunker that's done the other side of the flagstick there but as a deep bunker and it's a it's hidden from down at the bottom of the Swale you can't see anything but half the flagstick and I'd say the odds are maybe 70% chance that Webb Simpson is gonna win outright and you know there's a good chance also of a playoff on these guys good players and make birdie here and force playoff tomorrow tomorrow on Monday so we'll see what happens the first thing first you have to hit the very you're not gonna make a birdie unless you pull it out from a long distance or knock it in from a bunker otherwise so McDowell with the honor all three US Open champions have finished birdie birdie to win this title Ben Hogan Jack Nicholas Tom Watson a birdie obviously would tie Webb Simpson but didn't put potentially in that same group of illustrious names the center of the fairway go left overhanging tree little get his attention and the boss settled down a little bit I can't tell for sure but it surely isn't teed up and I can fure gather himself and actually hit a good shot he's a faltering a little starting on sixteen and eight down again has not made a birdie all day needs one here you can do it okay a good one here Webb Simpson is he gonna be the next US Open champion you the hillside was just about fooling around at the dark horse early this morning eight thousand spectators on that hillside of Olympic Club awaiting the outcome of the 12 US Open is away just behind Furyk in the face path ya'know six love to but if a couple I John it did settle slightly it's not the best of Lies spheric siz much better I get that fog looming over there and it's very uphill and I got the tree sort of framing that front-left hole location and what I seem to look up into it and it is and all those people in that bunker that you can't see the flag very well just sand can't get it over that your spoon you can see the competitiveness and you know the desire that guys dealt with a call to children of pressure at the Ryder Cup in Oh 10 well here he's got the perfect swing Roger to take it outside and drop it in and flip it straight up in there and stop it if he can do it you know he can he's able to his aside he wants and I think he's got a lie he can spin the ball from 105 team gathers nerves and it buried I mean he just fell apart is what it announced it 42 years old wanting it so badly now it's buried in the bunker and he got a feel for me sure deserves to win because he works so hard just to show 16 he's packed Misha true the city ii had to foster care was tender words a toy foods at home gets above the total of seven times much more unlikely for Jim Derrick as he puts his arm around fluff has it to say boy we just made it about impossible that was a total unforced error if their war zone with a wedge to hit that shot for US Open heartbreak perhaps for Furyk as you look at Webb Simpson here ice needs to dodge these last two players but it's birthday that short par-4 17th roughly that was his biggest disappointment since he's a native of western Pennsylvania at age 42 he was telling everybody yesterday I know the window of opportunity is closing I'm 42 years old now and I just don't know how many opportunities you have left and he just made this one really tough that bunker berries as we've seen it Johnny's got one of the great motions for a bucket player the shot to play us away from the flag and to the left but his only chance of tying for the US Open is to play at the flag and hit it square Laden get lucky absolutely he's got to give it a try that's the hole this won't hit the green if it doesn't go in unless he catches up in that fringe it's pretty sad though the US Open slips away from Jim Furyk we need to leave and so long since Friday afternoon and into the final couple of holes here that swing at 16 off the tee and then the second at this point that was almost impossible and he hit a poor shot so one man left for Webb Simpson to dodge and he's grant McDowell grant McDowell studying that green chart and trying to figure out where the slope is and it'll take his time figuring this one he's looking at the slope I'm just down it is first over for the day let's play he produced in 2010 shot 74 in the final round to put away that first US Open at Powell and then the Ryder Cup clinching match when he and Hunter Mahan were the only players on the course the final match it came down to that he made some incredible clutch play this is his 24 footer and down the hill you can see that break only come around here just a baby break to the left and he loves this hole he's gone birdie par birdie it's a good rolling putt and I would be really surprised if this don't come real close if it doesn't go in Roger well at this point just if you can get it on the right line you shouldn't have to work to get it there I'll say that will Webb Simpson with the US Open in just his second appearance or Graeme McDowell force an 18-hole playoff tomorrow we saw that putt go in at the 16th that Celtic Manor in Wales at the Ryder Cup today when his body language is I'm gonna drain this I'm telling you he looks really positive Roger rubbing his hands together like love this moment I love these kind of moments his dad Kenny is here he was there at Pebble Beach two years ago and Graham won it is to keep his hopes alive for a second US Open title in three years that Simpson is the 2012 United States Open champion I'm in doubt shot and Webb is a common cool oh good that feels folks this is just as bit major it's like amazing and you know it's funny he was aiming that ball Dow was aiming that ball outside left he had it totally misread before he hit it sit down in it plus two Jim Furyk put bogey to get it plus three that drive he hit a 16 I can't get it out of my head it just he was really in good shape with the 17 being such a birdie a bowl hole if he does par 16 of course this doesn't mean anything except for he always tries hard it's Simpson first out of the galaxy last year the company victories here's the United second child so a happy Father's Day to Webb Simpson we've got another different champion eighth consecutive first-time major champion straight different major champions to believe it but that's like pure joy when you shoot 68 68 on the weekend you can pass a lot of guy than he did Paul to sori who's been so instrumental in shaping this young man's golf game to reach the elite of the game he was ranked higher than 200 in the world at the end of 2010 it is been quite an ascent for Webb Simpson who attended Wake Forest on an Arnold Palmer scholarship arnie didn't get it done back in 66 but Webb gets it done today back with a lot more in a moment Webb Simpson as the US Open champion of course gets the US Open Championship Cup for a year the New Jack Nicholas medal which will be awarded in just a few moments from now exemption next 10 US Opens it's a lot to gain from this championship not to mention being a US Open champion forever and some examples of how I've got it done again he started the day in +3 he was four off the lead this was his second and that's had the authority gotten birdies at made it four birdies in a five all stretch for Simpson as he got it to plus one in the meantime Michael Thompson the first-round leader was staying steady this was his third at the par-5 16th beautiful that actually the best shall we saw him 16 a lotta action on the ball and night just a beautiful shot we're keeping a close eye on Thompson coming down to stretch the booty miss at 17 yeah that was the shot he needed cuz he ended up only being one back of Webb Simpson as he took the lead in the clubhouse for a while plus two Jim Furyk this was a clutch par putt at 12 that was the big shot we found was Italy this is what you've been talking about watch this shot I mean that shot drops the club just a quick duck hook into the trees and I've never seen him hit a shot like that and that one will haunt him for a long time he went on to bogey to hold the fall to +2 and then this was the clutch shot by Simpson his third at 18 lose himself a ticklish three footer have a very nice shot he does knocks it in with authority better the shot the difference in the USA the long putter a US Open champion McDowell had his chances and he gave it a guinea Li effort this was a clutch birdie putt at 17 to keep his hopes it's the first leg of the birdie and then Derek and McDowell both needed a birdie 18 in the first cut minutes Roger described here I had a much better life yeah that's just pressure he just released too early bunker dead couldn't get back to get the horn in at Johnny this was just a read that was way off right he's a man outside about four inches thinking left and I don't know what the heck he was reading there so another Simpson expected seems to be championship is such a failure how did you find person good family man I'm 36 one person even match this week with really no wind to speak of you know it showed out tougher was that he really played two great rounds on the weekend I'm the President of the United States Golf Association we hope you've enjoyed the experience and excitement of the 2012 US Open the USGA was founded over a hundred years ago with conducting national championships as a central focus of our mission today we staged 14 national events with more than 30,000 entrants from around the world compete for the title of national champion and among them is our new US Open winner Webb Simpson as God's toughest test the US Open required skilled shot making mental toughness and physical endurance Webb Simpson obviously displayed each of these attributes this week Webb becomes the fifth player to win the US Open here at the Olympic Club joining 1955 champion Jack Fleck 1966 champion Billy Casper both of whom join me here today on the 18th green web also joins 1987 champion Scott Simpson in 1988 champion Lee Janssen who could not be with us today web if you could join me here at the podium well I have two awards to present to you today the first is the Nicklaus medal in recognition of your victory and the place that you take in history with Jack Nicholas and second on behalf of the USGA executive committee and staff all of our volunteers and members and our partners it's my pleasure to present you with the US Open trophy the time-honored emblem of our nation's national championship Webb congratulations how nerve-wracking was it for you to watch Jim Furyk and Grand McDowell play those last couple of holes it was nerve-racking I know what kind of players they are both of one majors and I expected both of them to do well coming in and you know I thought even though Graham had a 25-footer is probably going to hit the hole or have a good chance but I couldn't be happy right now and you know congrats to Graham and Mike refer playing Greg off you go 68 68 on the weekend and a burst of three straight birdies and four and a five hole stretch turned around for you today yeah that was kind of the difference I got off to a slow start but I knew that I knew always something just spice matters up with enjoy the jail-cell pal but no I knew that there was some birdie holes on the back and I just had to you know stay patient luckily the birdies came your wife Dowd is expecting she was by your side you kind of amused the the John diamonds are taking care of this gentleman and he is on his way to a place other than where you're headed you're you're wiped out who was expecting was watching along with you this is a special time for you in your life it was you know we had a week just the two of us our little boys 16 months old and it's been our first week away from him so it was bittersweet but we couldn't have had a better week and I needed her here with me because I never felt nerves like I did today and a lot of times I kind of had to hit my legs because I couldn't really feel but it was it was a pleasure to have her here and I couldn't imagine it without her I mentioned this on the air to you a while back but those here in the gallery didn't hear it you are a past winner of the Arnold Palmer scholarship to Wake Forest the golf scholarship there you and mr. Palmer have a relationship this is the scene of one of the most bitter defeats of his hyoeun career in 1966 when Billy Casper came from way back and eventually beat him in the playoffs so there's an irony there but you were saying earlier you probably expect to hear from Arnold Palmer to congratulate you I'd love to he's meant so much to me and you know he allowed me to play at wake for years and you know I've got to know him a little better through the Bayhill tournament but you know to win here with what happened to him I hope he can smile and I hope he was watching congratulations Thank You Webb Simpson is your US Open champion that comes from behind to win so that story line stayed intact and Johnny with Webb Simpson winning his first major championship the kind of future does this guy have well you know he the only one to tour events and for him to win the US Open you know he goes into the last 13 holes and no bogeys and four birdies that's stuff of great players so great playing by web since and a lot of fun to watch over par wins the US Open for only the third time in the last 34 years as we got that old US Open toughest back to a stop it was fun doing it Johnny your home to appear at Olympic clay I really had a great time there right always a pleasure happy Father's Day again to you for more coverage including the winners press conference Tuesday for the USO for the night on Golf Channel where they will have interviews and reaction from Jim Furyk and Graham McDowell coming up next except on the west coast it's Betty White's Off Their Rockers it's been a great week in San Francisco for NBC Sports team going up and down these hills all week long at Olympic hide antics with one final so long from the Olympic Club where Webb Simpson holds off the rest of the field he's the 112 the United States Open champion you

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Published: Sun Apr 19 2020