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With three rounds of the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club complete, Sam Burns holds a one shot lead and will look to close it out on Sunday and win his first major championship. Burns entered the weekend with the lead after finding ways to tame some of Oakmont's challenges, firing a 65 to move to -3 on the leaderboard.

Sam Burns and J.J. Spaun took turns trading the lead, sharing the lead and just being in the from the start to the finish of Round 3 of the U.S. Open. On a day when very few players went under par — just 12 of 66 — both Burns and Spaun not only avoided disaster, but held serve.

Burns, a 28-year-old from Louisiana, has five PGA Tour titles, the last one more than two years ago. Despite that, he leads the quartet under par through 54 holes.

According to People, Burns met Caroline Campbell when they were 5 years old at church. “I hope that we'll have many years together and grow old together and get to enjoy a lot of fun things together,” he told WJCL-TV after proposing in 2019.

Sam Burns lit up Oakmont Country Club during Friday's second round, posting a 5-under 65 for the best round of the U.S. Open thus far.

Fox and Burns went to four playoff holes before the former emerged with the second victory of his PGA Tour career