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The U.S. Open, the third major championship of the season, is only a week away.

Several top golfers from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf League will be trying to fine-tune their games before they arrive at Oakmont Country Club outside Pittsburgh next week.

World No. 2 golfer Rory McIlroy will be back in action at the RBC Canadian Open on the PGA Tour, and defending U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau will tee it up in the LIV Golf League's tournament in Gainesville, Virginia.

«We're all trying to accomplish feats that haven't been done in a long time, and going back-to-back would be great,» DeChambeau said. «Three in a row would be an even better accomplishment, so it is in the back of my head.»

RBC Canadian Open
When: Thursday-Sunday
Where: TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course), Caledon, Ontario
Defending champion: Robert MacIntyre
Purse: $9.8 million

After skipping last week's Memorial Tournament, a signature event, McIlory is back in action north of the border. After winning the Canadian Open in 2019 and 2022, McIlroy will attempt to become only the fourth three-time winner (Tommy Armour, Sam Snead and Lee Trevino are the others).

McIlroy likes that the PGA Tour moved the Canadian Open up a month on the schedule.

«I honestly love the date change,» McIlroy said. «I love that it's the week leading into the U.S. Open. I told this story a little bit, but before playing in this event, 2016, 2017, 2018, I missed three cuts in a row at the U.S. Open. Since playing the Canadian Open the week before, I've had six top-10s in a row, so there's something to that.»

After completing the career Grand Slam with his victory at the Masters, McIlroy admitted «grinding on the range for three or four hours every day is maybe a little