OAKMONT, Pa. — It is a compliment that stings, the golf equivalent of being known for a winning personality. Over the last decade, Dustin Johnson, Sergio García and Lee Westwood have taken turns wearing the “best golfer never to have won a major” label.
They are a combined 0 for 170 in the majors. But when the third round was suspended on Saturday at the 116th United States Open, Johnson, García and Westwood were still out on the Oakmont Country Club course, within glory’s grasp at two under par, three strokes off the lead held by the Irishman Shane Lowry, who had four holes to play.