OAKMONT, Pa. — Tyrrell Hatton, in the mix in the final round of a major for the first time in the late Sunday gloom at the U.S. Open, watched his tee shot on the 17th hole drift to the right and exhaled. If there was a place to “miss,” Hatton knew it was to the right of the green on the uphill, 314-yard par 4.

There always seems to be enough rattling around in the brain of Viktor Hovland that it’s not far-fetched to wonder how he does what he does as well as he does it. What Hovland does well is play golf,

Carlos Ortiz, a member of LIV Golf like Hatton, was part of a five-way tie for the lead on the back nine. Ortiz’s tee shot on the 503-yard par-4 15th sailed left, forcing him to