Right there with them was Rory McIlroy. The Northern Irishman played a steady hand – one birdie and one bogey over his last 14 holes on a course that finally started to play like a U.S Open.
McIlroy had a 69 that left him one shot behind, poised to end nine long years without a major.
“It’s nice to be in the hunt,” McIlroy said.
Fowler had to settle for an even-par 70 on Saturday.
Clark escaped big trouble from the barranca with a 6-foot par putt on the 17th to stay close, and then boldly took on a tight left pin at the 18th for a 6-foot birdie for a 69 that allowed him to catch Fowler.
“I wanted to be in the final group. Every shot matters out here. And on top of it, we couldn’t see. So just the fact making it when we were kind of just feeling it and didn’t really have the clearest of reads,” Clark said.
“Yeah, there’s a lot of emotion….