Jon Rahm has his major title after surviving everything the U.S. Open threw at him

DeChambeau reached No. 11 and started making visits into the scruffier vegetation and other places until he had splattered two bogeys and a double across three holes and plunged from a brief lead at 5 under par to a dungeon four shots worse, all of it even before No. 17. “I didn’t get off the rails at all,” he insisted. “It’s just golf.” Morikawa, whose golf doesn’t trade in wretched messes, made a wretched mess of No. 13 in a nightmare of shots rolling back from the front of the green and howling as they flew over said green, a double-bogey 7 the result. “Sometimes,” the wise young man said, “you just hit some bad shots, and it all happened all at the wrong time.”