JJ Spaun recovered from a nightmare start to win the biggest title of his career, emerging victorious on a brutal final day at the US Open.
A breakthrough year for Spaun at the highest level has seen him rise to 25th in the world rankings, sunk a barely believable 62 foot putt on the final hole to pass the draining Oakmont test.
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Reigning in the Rain
2025 US Open final leaderboard
-1 J.J Spaun
+1 Robert MacIntyre
+2 Viktor Hovland
+3 Cameron Young, Tyrrell Hatton, Carlos Ortiz
+4 Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Sam Burns
It gave him a two-over-par round of 72 on a brutal Sunday in Pennsylvania, but most notably the winners cheque of $4.3million and the gateway to the riches that follow as a major champion.
The 34-year-old from California saw off Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre who produced a sparkling round of 68 in terrible conditions to set the clubhouse lead.
Fierce downpours and gloomy skies threatened to take the third major of the year, into a fifth day but Spaun produced a special run to win his national championship.
He follows world no.1 Scottie Scheffler and world no.2 Rory McIlroy as the men’s champions this year, Scheffler winning the PGA Championship last month, and McIlroy completing a career Grand Slam by winning the Masters.
Early on, Spaun had looked like sitting on another near miss when he began the final round with three consecutive bogey fives.
Spaun had come close to ending a three-year wait for his second PGA Tour duck on three occasions in 2025, finishing runner-up to McIlroy in a play-off at the Players Championship, after being just one more roll of the ball away from winning in regulation
.He finished in a tie for third at the season-opening Sony Open, and he finished second at the Cognizant Classic at the Palm Beaches.
In fact, the Californian started 5-5-5-5-5 on a day when the weather twice closed in to soak the course, causing a near two-hour delay as the leaders headed into the middle of their rounds.
Spaun was playing in the penultimate group alongside Viktor Hovland and the rain delay to his advantage.
He returning from the near two-hour weather delay to find birdies at 12, 14 and 17, catapulting him into the lead at level par for the tournament heading down the final hole.
MacIntyre came up just short on a memorable final dayGetty GettyTyrrell Hatton threatened the lead on the back nine but came up short[/caption]Scotland’s MacIntyre, with a brilliant round of 68, had posted the clubhouse lead of one-over par, but Spaun’s finish on 18 was deserving of the title US Open champion.
Having struck a fine tee shot down the middle of the fairway he fired his iron into the green to give himself two putts from 65 feet to be the champion.
He needed just one.
Fittingly for an attritional day the rain lashed down for one final time and an uphill putt across a sodden putting surface faced him.
Spaun got a perfect read from Hovland’s putt from similar distance and in a stirring finish, he watched his perfect putt break and borrow to drop to the bottom of the cup.
As chants of ‘JJ, JJ, JJ’ echoed around the 18th green, it gave Spaun a round of 72 to go with rounds of 66 on day one and 72 and 69 on Friday and Saturday and it meant he finished as the only player under par.
@usopengolfSpaun celebrates his winning putt[/caption] Spaun sunk his winning put from 62 feet on the final hole of a brutal weekBut now he is a champion again, with a place on the United States Ryder Cup team on Bethpage in September secured.
Spaun becomes champion on only his second career start at the US Open – and ninth career appearance in the majors.
He missed the cut at Torrey Pines in 2021, and now hold a US Open record of CUT-Champion.
As he explained afterwards, Spaun has battled back through adversity and having been a regular on leaderboards this season his story is well known.
Now as a major champion for life, his story will be told again and again.
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