OAKMONT, Pa. — Perhaps the goings on early Saturday morning at a rainy, brutally tough Oakmont Country Club should have been a clue.
Shreveport would own the day — at the formidable site of the 2025 U.S. Open, on social media, on the television, throughout a bevy of news organizations.
Perhaps it’s just for a day, but what a day it was.
At 7:55 a.m., former Byrd and LSU star Philip Barbaree Jr. sent the internet ablaze with a 5-footer on No. 9 that erased a sea of doubt, pain and what-ifs. Exactly 12 hours later, Calvary Baptist product Sam Burns, a teammate to Barbaree at LSU, tapped in for par on the 18th hole to take sole possession of the lead entering Sunday at the season’s third major championship…