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Global Focus JT Breaks the Lowest Score Record Justin Thomas shot a third-round 63 in the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills - punctuated by an eagle on the 18th - to match Johnny Miller’s famed final round score from the 1973 U.S. Open. But his nine-under-par total was one better than Johnny’s eight under at Oakmont.

Miller, the now TV announcer, seemed not enjoying the moment on Thomas’ recordbreaking round, “Taking nothing away from nine-under par - nine under is incredible with U.S. Open pressure,” Miller said. “But it isn’t a U.S. Open course that I’m familiar with the way it was set up.”

Of course, Miller has a point.

Erin Hills, which hosted its first major championship, has yielded unusually low scores for a U.S. Open. In addition to Thomas’ 63, there have been four other rounds of 65, and more players broke par on Saturday than during any previous third round at the tournament. But Thomas was three over in the final round and could only finish at tied ninth - certainly made Miller feel less bitter.

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