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Matthew Abbott

Rory McIlroy's major near-misses as US Open offers fresh opportunity to end wait

Rory McIlroy enters the final round of the US Open with another chance at ending a nine-year wait for a major.

Entering Sunday's play, McIlroy, 34, is third in the leaderboard, one shot back of American joint-leaders Rickie Fowler and Wyndham Clark. A dozen years after winning his first major title Stateside at the 111th US Open, the former world number one has his latest opportunity to end an almost decade-long drought in Los Angeles.

Not since the PGA Championship has the four-time major winner lifted one of the sport's premier prizes. On that occasion, the sight of McIlroy holding a major aloft came less than a month after claiming the Open at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club.

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