IF the men’s US Open at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania last week were a Netflix adaptation, it would have had an eight rating. Yes, that’s how good the third major of the season turned out.

The unfolding of the 125th staging of the American National Open was loaded with intrigue from the get-go, right to the very end, when J.J. Spaun buried the longest putt of the championship, 64 feet, to seal the win and leave the rest of the world’s best players in his wake.