JJ Spaun overcomes Nightmare Start to win the US Open after the incredible final round did not see any other players ending under the par, with Robert Macintyre of Scotland coming in second place

Less than a year ago, JJ Spaun thought to stop golf. On Sunday evening, under the moving rain and at the end of a really amazing battle, he became the American open champion.

Over time we will describe in detail how watching a ROM-COM during a flight to London last December his fate turned his fate to this two-shot victory over Ballsy, brilliant Bob Macintyre.

But first to the amazing tree tower that decided the 125th edition of this tournament.

For that we have to concentrate on what the leaderboard looked like about 6.45 pm local time. After a slowly burning tournament, no fewer than five men were suddenly tied up in front of one over par, while they make their way through the rear nine and somewhat horrible weather.

Spaun was there, so also the surveyor Sam Burns, and Tyrrell Hatton, Adam Scottand Carlos Ortiz. One behind them was a shot that had stayed under the radar all week – Macintyre. More foolish for those of us who ignored him.

What followed was a small classic in the third major of the season, in which Spaun emerged from the chaos to seal the title at the age of 34, three years after his only PGA Tour title.

As the 25th arranged golfer in the world, we must be careful against the size of the shock heed, Rory McIlroy took a play-off on the Players Championship in March and has been in the top two of the field since the first day.

But in the context of his round, the comeback was huge – he Bogey five of the first six holes before he re -established himself during a storm arrears. In the context of his career it was even bigger.

In one stage, in 2018, he lost 50 pounds in weight after a diagnosis for diabetes. More recently, in December, he considered stopping, but was inspired by the character of Paul Bettany in the film ‘Wimbledon’, the story of a bang average, aging underdog with his day on the tennis court. Spaun’s script is better.

Playing the last 12 holes in Three Under was fantastic for the circumstances and, more than, the circumstances.

But let’s save a word about Macintyre, whose 68 threatened a wonderful upset. He reached the clubhouse on one over par, he had every chance to leave with the title, but could only see how Spaun hit a sublime disc on the short 17th to set up a Birdie, and then followed it with a Monster 65-foot putt on the last for the two-shot victory. He met the pressure with the power of the freight train.

Macintyre’s highest career finish will greatly help its chances of a second Ryder Cup performance, although that will initially be little comfort. Similar feelings will be experienced by Hatton, who the last two Holes Bogey to end in a draw for the fourth except for an exceptional challenge. He hissed a 72.

Now that HOVOLAND third finished two left, it was a good week for the European captain Luke Donald; It was better for Spaun.

Until the story of De Ronde, drama was guaranteed because of Oakmont that kind of place was. No leadership can be safe when a course takes such a vengeful pleasure in mistreating golfers.

But there was a score potential – Jon Rahm had already demonstrated so much with a 67 that passed through the back door to a top 10. More surprisingly, Rory Mcilroy corresponded to the round, if not the final placement.

The leaders, finished by Burns on four under the start of the game, did not have such a joy. Their game was one of the reproduction of blood loss. After seven holes, each of Burns, Scott and HOVOLAND dropped two shots and Spaun was blown.

He was also the most bad luck he had driven a beautiful pitch of 90 meters in the second, with a short Birdie putt that would certainly follow, he could only stare in horror while his ball hit the flagstick and rolled most of the road to his feet. It contributed to Brutal Front Nine.

With all turbulence under contenders, one man moved smoothly. That was Hatton-Hij opened with a missed par-putt of four feet, recovered the shot with a scorcher of 290 meters to tap the Parfive fourth and then kept stable.

After five behind Burns, Hatton was only three back with the storm delay with 10 holes to play. Returning to a Stodgy course, he immediately saved par from a bunker on the ninth but then drove in a ditch to the next and slid back to two.

The relief for the pursuers, led by Scott on level par, was that Burns hit a wild drive when he hit the front nine and underwent them to one. His reaction? He faded a 175-year approach to the difficult pin behind the right side on the 10th and fell the 10-foot to go two.

His buffer was back to two, but a certain disaster followed on the 11th. Burns had shot no worse than par on the hole all week, but threw his second shot at the elevated green in the face of a bunker, cut a road in dirty rough and bought a two -squeeze. Scott Holed a 13-foot putt to escape with bogey and the management was one.

This was the point at which the tournament took a turn in the direction of his remarkable endgame.

In the space of the next 15 minutes, Scott would be accompanied by each of Hatton, Spaun and Carlos Ortiz, with Macintyre and HOVOLAND back. When Burns missed on the 12th of six feet, there was a five -way draw. Brilliant madness.

Spaun, he from the front-nine capitulation, made the first break before he rolled in a 22-foot to even return to Par. And then Scott went the other way with a bogey and Ortiz was worse off a double.

When Macintyre, especially the entire week under the radar, went to Birdie the 17th, he joined the cluster on one. In addition to the eagle he had hit the fourth gap, he was hardly visible in the broadcasts.

His movement on the 17th got extra meaning when Spaun the 15th Bogey Bogey, which means that a four-sided draw on one over-spaun, Macintyre, Hatton and Burns. The last Parring, the Scot had given the clubhouse ahead.

Hatton had the chance to strike the 16th, a par three, but after missing 250 meters to 10 feet, he missed the putt.

He kept his feelings under control, although it was a temporary calmness – the explosion came on the penultimate gap, the rows of 17th, when he went before broke and found the disadvantage of the rough lining a greenside bunkers. Two failed chips and he hit his wedge in the turf before he left with a bogey. Another ended his adventure at the last minute.

Burns started to double his fall shortly thereafter by the 15th – he would end up for seventh on four after an ugly 78 – and from there it was to Spaun.

When he played the 17th, he succeeded in where Hatton had failed and drilled the hill to leave a 20 -feet chance. The first putt missed, the second fell and he was one for it. The hope of Macintyre now clung to an error on the 18th that never came.