Fowler said he knew low scores would be attainable but was impressed by the U.S. Open record-setting round of nine-under carded by Justin Thomas, his friend and room mate this week.
Rory McIlroy hit back at suggestions he was "bored" with golf after missing the cut in the US Open for the second year in succession. The Japanese star began the day at 2-over par and is now 5-under and just two shots back of the lead.
It appears that Erin Hills, a first-time venue, has a lower threshold than the normal Open course.
Justin Thomas put together the best round of this year's U.S. Open on Saturday, but Brian Harman stole some of that thunder by taking the lead through three rounds at Erin Hills.
Si Woo Kim (-9): Kim has been just grinding out great scores while the attention has been on everyone else.
"I started feeling a couple of rounds at Colonial like that, where I really felt like I was seeing the lines, I was confident going into it". But I'm looking forward to getting the job done.
It's no secret that the U.S. Open is created to separate the men from the boys.
Thomas set the U.S. Open scoring record despite registering a pair of bogeys, offsetting them with nine birdies and his closing eagle.
As young as he is, Thomas said he's very comfortable with his plan to finish this week right.
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China's Li Haotong, who on Friday became the first player from mainland China to make the cut at a major, bombed out of contention with a 10-over-par 82.
However, after dropping another shot on the 15th, Casey regained his composure superbly to birdie the 17th and 18th, the latter being the second longest hole in major history at 676 yards.
"I knew going into the day with the rain we had last night and seeing that the course was going to play probably similar to what we saw Thursday morning when I went out, and if you played well and executed, that birdies were out there", Fowler said.
But he under-hit a pitch into the final green and then got too heavy-handed with the putter and watched his ball race past the flag, off the green and down the run-off area to leave a tricky up and down. There were five players in double digits Saturday at Erin Hills.
Li found the rough with his tee shot on 18 and hacked it out with an eight-iron, but his ball settled into a deep divot on the fairway, before his third shot bounded through the green into more nasty grass, from where he took six more shots to hole out for a 10-over 82 at Erin Hills.
NOTEWORTHY: None of the top 18 players on the leaderboard have won a major. "It's the ideal day", Kevin Perschke said.
"It doesn't matter how long, how whatever the course is", Thomas said about the longest course in major championship history.
"If you look at the golf course and you even talk to me, Jason or Rory, this course sets up ideal for us", Johnson said. In 2014, he finished fifth at the Masters, second at the U.S. Open and British Open and the third at the PGA Championship. "As long as it's a good tournament, it's good for the U.S. Open and the USGA". "I'm not sure when it's going to sink in". I think it's easy to lose track. He lost the 2010 U.S. Junior Amateur final to Smithtown's Jim Liu, but he helped Alabama win the NCAA title in 2013 and the U.S. win the Walker Cup at National Golf Links of America in Southampton that same year.
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