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The U.S. Open has a 4-way tie on top after the field caught Dustin Johnson on Saturday

Shinnecock Hills has pushed every player in the field above par.

PGA: U.S. Open - Third Round
PGA: U.S. Open - Third Round
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The four-shot lead Dustin Johnson enjoyed at the U.S. Open heading into Saturday is gone. He carded a 7-over 78 in the third round and fell into a four-way tie for first place.

Johnson three-putted for bogey on the 18th green, allowing Daniel Berger, Tony Finau, and defending champion Brooks Koepka to tie him for the lead. Finau and Berger both shot incredible 66s on Saturday. Both teed off in the 10 a.m. ET hour, about five hours before Johnson did. Now they’re all even going to the last day of the national championship.

A lot of golfers had a hard time at Shinnecock Hills on Saturday. The course played harder than it has all week, with a field average score of 75.3 on a par-70 track. It was 76.5 on Thursday, the highest average so far, but numbers are supposed to get way lower when a 156-man tournament gets cut down to 69 players. That didn’t happen in the Hamptons, where players fought and lost to the wind, fast greens, and fescue rough all day.

It looked for a while like Johnson’s day would be a nightmare. He needed 41 shots to get through his first nine holes, but his day stabilized some once he made a birdie on the par-3 11th hole. He played the back nine in an even-par 30 shots, regaining the lead toward the end of the round after Henrik Stenson took a turn at No. 1. Still, after an otherwise strong back nine, Johnson’s three-putt at the 18th was a disappointing way to finish.

Given how hard Shinnecock has been, it’s hard to make predictions about Sunday. Johnson looked to be in total control of the championship on Thursday and Friday, but the course humbled him some on Saturday, and he didn’t play his best golf. He remains the world’s most talented player, though, and he has a lead heading into Sunday in a tournament he won two years ago at Oakmont, a course roughly as difficult as this one. If you have to pick one guy to win this tournament, there’s no one better than Johnson.

The biggest story on Saturday had nothing to do with the top of the leaderboard. That was a stir over Phil Mickelson, whose round of 81 included a two-shot penalty for bizarrely putting a moving ball after he missed a bogey try on the 13th green. Once the controversy over Mickelson passes tomorrow, all there’ll be left to think about is who wins.

The leaderboard after Saturday is below, with every player who made the cut:

The U.S. Open leaderboard after Saturday

Position

Player

To Par

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Total

T1Daniel Berger3767166213
T1Tony Finau3757266213
T1Brooks Koepka3756672213
T1Dustin Johnson3696777213
5Justin Rose4717073214
6Henrik Stenson5717074215
T7Kiradech Aphibarnrat6767268216
T7Patrick Reed6737271216
T7Jim Furyk6737172216
T10Brian Gay7737470217
T10Dylan Meyer7776971217
T10Tyrrell Hatton7757072217
T10Branden Grace7766972217
T10Ian Poulter7697276217
T10Charley Hoffman7716977217
T16Gary Woodland8796970218
T16Webb Simpson8767171218
T16Zach Johnson8737372218
T16Xander Schauffele8727472218
T16Bryson DeChambeau8766973218
T16Justin Thomas8747074218
T16Matthew Fitzpatrick8737075218
T23Francesco Molinari9757272219
T23Paul Casey9737373219
T23Ryan Fox9737274219
T23Russell Knox9737175219
T23Russell Henley9697377219
T23Tommy Fleetwood9756678219
T23Scott Piercy9697179219
T30Brendan Steele10727375220
T30Charles Howell III10717277220
T30Rafael Cabrera Bello10737176220
T33Jhonattan Vegas11767273221
T33Brandt Snedeker11727673221
T33Steve Stricker11737573221
T33Matt Parziale11747374221
T33Li Haotong11796874221
T33Chris Naegel11737375221
T33Louis Oosthuizen11747275221
T33Pat Perez11737177221
T33Alexander Noren11727277221
T33Marc Leishman11746978221
T43Bill Haas12767274222
T43Matthieu Pavon12717774222
T43Luis Gagne12737475222
T43Peter Uihlein12757275222
T43Sam Burns12717675222
T43Patrick Cantlay12757176222
T43Brian Harman12747078222
T50Dean Burmester13757375223
T50Aaron Baddeley13747277223
T50Will Grimmer13737278223
T50Jason Dufner13707479223
T54Cameron Wilson14757376224
T54Hideki Matsuyama14757079224
T54Jimmy Walker14757079224
T54Mickey DeMorat14727280224
T58Kevin Chappell15757278225
T58Calum Hill15756981225
T58Tyler Duncan15776781225
T61Tim Wilkinson16767278226
T61Ross Fisher16767179226
T61Rickie Fowler16736984226
T64Phil Mickelson17776981227
T64Patrick Rodgers17727283227
T66Byeong Hun An18717681228
T66Andrew Johnston18737382228
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