Paul Casey, Tommy Fleetwood, Brian Harman and Brooks Koepka are out in front on seven under par.
Count former Taylor County and University of Kentucky star J.B. Holmes among those in the mix.
Casey remained at the top of the leaderboard despite temporarily falling off Friday morning when he struggled through a stretch that included two bogeys and a triple bogey.
"It was a surprise as I really like this golf course".
"If someone shoots 9-under tomorrow in the top few (players), then I will have to shoot 10-under, I guess", Fleetwood said. "I guess it's rare you get through a U.S. Open or any major without some kind of a hiccup". Get through the tough pin and get to the next hole ...
"Hit a lot of good shots". "I'd like to shoot a good round here. If you do that you're going to deserve a bogey out there". Moments later, he began a run of five straight birdies that put him right where he wanted to be going into the weekend.
Of them all, Fleetwood - who bogeyed the last - will feel as if he should at least have finished alongside Harman. No matter what that's something when you're always going to walk up the 18th green with your best mate.
On a wild and wonderful day of scoring, Justin Thomas signed for a 63 - a round of nine-under - that constituted the lowest ever round to par in the championship's long and celebrated history. This is his third try at the U.S. Open and the first time he has made the cut.
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"It's still golf", he said. Some of it nearly takes the bombers out of it.
For the first time this week the easiest hole was not a par five, with a forward tee turning the 15th into a reachable par four of 288 yards. So that kind of takes the advantage away from the bombers.
Fowler agreed that the wide open leaderboard - none of the top 16 players have won a major - made it anyone's title to win.
Holmes expects the scoring to get more hard over the final rounds. Fowler's streak ended at 28 holes, however, when he went just long on the 11th hole and had to chip sideways to have any chance of a reasonable par putt. "Still 7 (under par)".
Elsewhere, last year's U.S. Masters champion Danny Willett withdrew from the event with a sore back on Friday as the Englishman's injury woes continued. What's more, this course had seemed a flawless match for the considerable skills of No. 1 Dustin Johnson, No. 2 Rory McIlroy and No. 3 Jason Day.
Johnson and Matt Kuchar will be the second of 34 pairings to hit the course. And Japan's Hideki Matsuyama (T-8) is ranked fourth in the world. "I couldn't possibly shoot any higher than I did". He also could become the first left-hander to win a U.S. Open.
McIlroy was never in the short grass from the 11th hole to the end on Thursday when he opened with a career-worst 78, and he didn't do almost enough in the second round until it was far too late.
Harman had one bogey Saturday, at the par-4 third hole, to go with six birdies. Compatriots Jason Day and Adam Scott are both set to have the weekend off.
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