The 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont was none of that. J.J. Spaun won the tournament with a score of -1, but the better way to put it might be he survived the tournament. This was a down-in-the-mud fistfight, a battle against the elements, the course, the field and the self.

L.A. native J.J. Spaun turns a sloppy mess of a U.S. Open into a thing of beauty with two stunning shots that carried him to his first major championship.