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Justin Rose is already well on his way to one of the best 2013 campaigns of any golfer on the Golf Club last weekend, there's no reason to expect anything less than a stellar year from the 32-year-old.

RORY McILROY and Graeme McDowell have led the tributes to Justin Rose after he followed in their footsteps by winning the US Open.

Justin Rose hopes his US Open triumph can inspire more English players to win major championships, but he also wants more of them for himself.

He was the steadiest player for most of Sunday at Merion Golf Club, ripping off par after par after par to stay in the hunt.

There was Justin Rose and Phil Mickelson locked in combat at Merion Golf Club just as they had been in their head-to-head match last year.

It took three days, but the cut at the 113th US Open was finally set on Saturday morning at 8-over 148, leaving 74 players to play the final 36 holes at Merion Golf Club.

Like most of his peers, Johnson has hidden behind no one and pinned the blame on himself in times when he's struggled on golf courses.

Luke Donald has such a good short game he could land an egg on the top of Peyton Manning's helmet and not crack the shell.

Of course, Tiger Woods draws the biggest crowds and the loudest cheers, but many, maybe most, are just watching out of curiosity, not for rooting purposes.

A year ago, Jim Furyk and Graeme McDowell , each past U.S. Open champions, teed off in the final group on Sunday at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, vying for their second Open title.

Graeme McDowell watches his put on the 17th green during practice day at the 2013 U.S. Open in the Merion Golf Club East Course on Wednesday, June 12, 2013.

At what point does a slow start to a season become a slump? Rory McIlroy is in danger of discovering the answer to that question.

Justin Rose and Graeme McDowell were part of Europe's Ryder Cup winning side at Medina last year The US Open gets underway at Merion later today and Ryder Cup pair Justin Rose and Graeme McDowell believe there is every chance of a European winner on Sunday evening.

Rory McIlroy, left, of Northern Ireland, and Tiger Woods shake hands on the 18th green during practice for the U.S. Open golf tournament at Merion Golf Club, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Ardmore, Pa.

Tiger, Rory and Adam. If you follow the PGA Tour, first names are enough to identify golf's top three players at the moment.

The European golfers who built a monument to the spirit of Seve Ballesteros in a golden Ryder Cup autumn cut much less inspiring figures in the sodden summer greenery of the famous old Merion course in Pennsylvania on the eve of the US Open.

Historians believe the concept of the "signature hole" was invented at the same meeting where the "face of the franchise" and the "statement game" were also hatched.

After Jules the eagle-eyed U.S. Open marshal yelled for everybody to watch out - "it's right at us" - the golf ball skipped off Golf House Road and short-hopped into the back of a leg, then caromed over a 10-foot fence into a front yard across Golf House, gone for good.

The USGA wanted Merion to play fast and firm for the 113th U.S. Open, but heavy rain earlier this week has dashed those hopes.

The US Open at Merion offers punters plenty of opportunities to make a few quid.