Mark Lishman’s bunker shot out of the sand, with four quick bouncing and long, rolled into the hole directly to the border on the eighth hole -3 eighth hole.
Suddenly, there was a name that had no stranger for the leaderboard in Major once again. It is not bad for a player who had every reason to wonder if he would ever get another chance to play in one, contest alone.
The 41-year-old Australian, whose departure for live golf made some headlines three years ago, but he completely changed his life, shot 2-under 68 at the US Open on Saturday. He placed five shovedies on his first 12 holes on the leaderboard before leaving six shots on the leaderboard.
“I am playing some of my career golf this year,” Lishman said, who is coming out of her first live win in Dorl in April, then earned one of the four places in the US Open qualifier in Maryland this month. “Like a schedule, he lends himself to be able to work on his game between tournaments, and I was really able to prepare for this tournament.”
This is the first head of Leishman since the 2022 British Open. He is already exempted from this year’s British Open based on third -place finish at the Australian Open in December.
Their move for Live, where tournaments do not qualify for points in the world rankings, helping to decide a large portion of the field in major events, leaving a six -time winner on the PGA tour in Limbo when it had ever come to play in the biggest golf events.
“You wonder, of course, if you’re ever going in,” said Lishman. “But certainly there was no regrets. My life is as good as I am now.”
The $ 24.8 million Leishman has won since going to Liv, not said anything of low schedule and 54-Hole tournament, it helps to explain.
The missing golf’s biggest tournament was all-but automatic spots that used to go to the top artists of the PGA Tour. Lishman played in 39 out of 39 out of 41 between 2012-22. For a time, he was a habit to be in the mixture.
The British Open included three -way tie for an edge after 72 holes in 2015 in 2015 in the 2010s, eventually before losing the playoffs occupied by Zach Johnson. Australians played in the second-to-side group on Sunday in 2013 Masters (with fellow Australian and final winner Adam Scott).
“I like hard courses,” Lishman said. “I like courses that separate the field, when it really punishes bad shots and rewards good shots.”
Both had their own share on Saturday. Good: Bunker shot at 8, and shot 300-yard Fairway Wood at Par-5 12th, which established the Birdi and equivalent to 2-over. Bad: Three straight bogies at 14-16, although he returned with a shirt, which was equal to Par-4 17th and 18.
Lishman first left the course for the 15th, six shots, in which the leaders still hurried during their round.
He is well aware that a top-four finish here will add masters to his 2026 schedule. Either way, he is peacefully with the options he has created, and where he left him – which is with the time of resuming a major in this case.
“I really used to sit with my children and my comrades and enjoy watching masters and PGA,” Lishman said about the first two major of the year. “If people were looking at me, I am more happy.”
Reporting by Associated Press.
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