Furyk - emotional day (Getty Images).
DREAM WIN FOR FURYK
By Mark Garrod, PA Sport Golf Correspondent, Chicago
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Jim Furyk described his final round on the way to victory in the US Open.
"The early part of the day, actually, was the key to the whole day. A lot of people got off to a very slow and very poor start.
"It took a lot of pressure and I didn't look at the board until about the 5th or 6th hole and realized that Vijay, Nick, a bunch of the closest guys, other than Stephen had started off poorly.
"So basically I was looking at my playing partner was the one I had to stay out ahead of.
"I played the first just how I wanted to, missed an eight-footer for birdie.
"The second hole was very huge in getting up-and-down, making about a 20-footer for par, there.
"The 5th hole, I drove it in the left rough, hit it up in the rough short right of the green, and pitched up to about ten feet, and the ten-footer had about two feet of break. So those holes were basically the key to the day getting my day off starting well.
"I bogeyed 10. I hung a 3-wood out to the right and got too close to the bunker, so I laid up with a pitching wedge, hit my 60 degree wedge too hard, about 25 feet behind the hole, and two-putted for bogey.
"The 12th, that was just a very difficult pin placement. I pulled my driver a little bit and hit it in the short cut on the left. I think my best shot of the day was the second shot I hit there.
"I rifled a 5-iron right at the stick. I was licking my chops and thinking about how good a shot it was, and it landed four yards short of the green, and ended up 40 yards from the pin.
"So I went from my best shot of the day to really struggling to make bogey.
"I hit a pretty good wedge up on top of the green, about 30 feet behind the pin and had to hit a great putt to lag it down about a foot by and knock that in for, actually it was a couple of feet by, and knocked that in for bogey.
"At 14, I hit a 3-wood off the tee and a pitching wedge to about three feet.
"It left the club, and first thing I said was be right, because I thought it was the perfect golf shot, and I was hoping it would be close.
"And that pretty much gave me the buffer I needed for the rest of the day. I played solid the rest of the way in.
"17 was difficult today. I got a little geared up, I hit a 3-iron over the 17th green, and I just physically can't do that.
"I can't figure out how the ball went so far. I pitched it short, which I should have knocked it by the hole, and the first putt went six feet by. I was a mess at this point.
"But I knocked a six-footer in, made the bogey and went to the 18th tee. I asked my caddie what we needed to hit off the tee. I was thinking like a lofted fairway wood, but he thought about it a while and said 3-iron.
"And I thought, you know what, that's a heck of a play. I couldn't believe how far the 3-iron went, and I ended up hitting 3-iron, 7-iron from the back of the green, and then lost it emotionally.
"The concentration was gone. I knew that I could pretty much do anything on that green and still win the golf tournament.
"I knocked the first putt pretty far by, but had an uphill coming back and couldn't focus on the second putt, I just wanted to get the golf tournament over with and win the tournament.
