Burns puts up sizzling 65 for clubhouse lead – theScore.com

by Dane Belbeck Jun 13, 6:43 PM Gregory Shamus / Getty Images Sport / Getty Apparently nobody told Sam Burns that Oakmont was supposed to be the hardest test of the year. The 28-year-old made the iconic layout look like a regular PGA TOUR stop Friday with six birdies against one bogey to post a sizzling 5-under 65. The stellar second round pushed him up the U.S. Open leaderboard and gave him the clubhouse lead at 3-under as the afternoon wave began teeing off. Burns’ strong performance was the latest in a series of solid play. He fired a final-round 62 in Canada last week before falling short in a playoff against Ryan Fox. Burns showed throughout Friday’s round why he’s statistically the best putter on the PGA TOUR, canning all 16 of his putts inside 10 feet. He also ranked second among the morning wave in approach – a deadly combo that explains how he moved up following a 2-over opening round. Burns ranked 106th in the field in putting Thursday, but the veteran insisted he didn’t make many changes going into the second round. “Other than they’re extremely difficult, not really,” Burns told reporters when asked if he
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