After his four-over par opening round at the US Open, yesterday Kiwi golfer Ryan Fox was hopeful he had just played his worst round of the tournament."Everyone's going to have a bad day around here at some point and hopefully that was me today," he said.It wasn't.He told Martin Devlin it's the hardest golf course he's ever played, and he got a bit spooked by it.“We had some pretty goods shots coming down the stretch Obviously, when the chance to make of making the cut was well gone, but it was sort of nice to walk off the golf course, almost have a bit of a laugh about it."He said you just have to try and put the bad days behind you."US Open is just one of those tests where, if you don't have it, it's your ass and you move on to the next weekend and try to forget about it."Fox carded a disastrous 15-over 85 in his second round at Winged Foot, carding five bogeys and five double bogeys as his 19-over score was the fourth-worst at the major which saw many golfers struggle.Danny Lee, of New Zealand, in action during the second round of the US Open. Photo / APToday, Kiwi golfer Danny Lee pulled out following a shocking finish to his third round at the brutal Winged Foot course.The 30-year-old followed an opening-round 70 with a five-over 75 to make it through to the weekend at the second major of the year, only for his tournament to unravel in dramatic fashion this morning (NZT).Lee experienced a massive meltdown on the 18th hole, six-putting from an initial distance of four feet to record a quintuple bogey nine.Lee was three over for his third round when he made his way to the par-four last and left himself a four-footer for par at the 18th, which he knocked so far past the hole that he left himself a longer putt coming back for bogey.His next effort failed to reach the hole and his third putt - his sixth shot - then rattled nearly seven feet past the target, with Lee's following attempt finishing just under four feet from the cup.The world No 108 saw his eighth shot go further past the target than any of his previous efforts, before eventually holing from seven feet seven inches - the longest putt of the lot - to finish his round with a quintuple-bogey nine.The six-putt from four feet saw Lee close out an eight-over 78.According to Golfweek, Lee withdrew due to a wrist injury.Lee last withdrew from a tournament in 2017, when he pulled out of the BMW Championship near Chicago after just two holes citing a lower-back complaint following a birdie and a bogey.Yesterday fellow Kiwi Ryan Fox missed the cut after carding a 15-over 85 in his second round. Just three players are under the card for the tournament heading into the final round.21-year-old Matthew Wolff leads the way with a two-shot lead over Bryson DeChambeauafter recording a five-under 65 today. Wolff is appearing in just his second major after an impressive tied for fourth at the PGA Championship last month.DeChambeau, three-under, and South African Louis Oosthuizen at one-under, are the only other two players under the card after three rounds. Japan's Hideki Matsuyama and American duo Xander Schauffele and Harris English are all at even-par, five shots back from Wolff.Wolff has only one PGA Tour victory to his name after making his debut on the tour last year. That came at the 3M Open where he beat DeChambeau and Collin Morikawa in a playoff.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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