Another eagle was available when Thomas drove the short, 288-yard par-four 15th hole. "And I can still beat my best finish at the US Open", said Leishman, referring to his 18th placing at Oakmont past year. There were 18 rounds in the 60s on Saturday.
On Saturday, the 24-year-old American fired the lowest score relative to par in the 117-year history of the championship, his nine-under round eclipsing Johnny Miller's eight-under 64 at the 1973 US Open at Oakmont.
Koepka also reached the green in two on the 667-yard closing hole for a two-putt birdie and a 68.
His caddie Jimmy Johnson responded "did you hit it good?".
Westwood had bogeyed the third and fifth before a superb tee shot on the 239-yard sixth - which played as the most hard hole on Thursday - set up a birdie from 18 feet. Thomas saw that challenge, and did everybody one better.
"I think the biggest thing is not getting ahead of yourself".
Fellow Australian Adam Scott is stalling in his attempt to claw back into the tournament, stumbling with a double-bogey at his 10th hole to drop to three-over.
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"The majors have a different feel and sound to the roars and to hear the crowd go insane when I holed that putt on 18 was really cool", said Thomas, whose back-to-back wins in Hawaii in January included an opening 59 in the Sony Open.
Thomas, a major away from joining the young elite in golf, only added to a year of low numbers. Fleetwood was poised to take the lead until his pitch to the 18th wasn't strong enough and his next shot went beyond the flag and down the slope some 70 feet away.
The Thomas' have a tradition that every time Justin does something special on the golf course like make a hole in one or shoot 59, like he did earlier this year at the Sony Open, Mike Thomas puts the golf ball in a special frame. In the hay left of the 12th fairway, he gouged it out with a 9-iron and watched it roll to 10 feet.
"It doesn't matter how long, how whatever the course is", Thomas said about the longest course in major championship history.
But the work is not done.
Then again, none of the top 16 on the leaderboard has ever won a major.
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