Lee Janzen says you can pretty much forget about anybody following the script he used a year ago to win the U.S. Open.

Janzen, five shots back of Payne Stewart after three rounds in the 1998 Open at The Olympic Club, fired a final-round two-under-par 68 to nip Stewart by a shot.

"It’s going to be hard for anybody to really charge," Janzen said after scraping his away around Pinehurst No. 2 Saturday with a six-over-par 76. "You’re not going to see anybody roll up three birdies in a row on anybody to make a charge. Every hole’s a test."

After rolling in a birdie from off the 18th green Friday just to make the cut, Janzen was hoping for a fast start Saturday.

"I knew I had to shoot in the red today to move up," he said. "Originally, I thought if I could shoot four under today, I’d really make a move. But I don’t think that’s possible out there today. Six over is not going to move me up anywhere."

It didn’t take Janzen very long Saturday to figure that the answer to par was blowing in the wind.

"On the second hole, I had a 15-footer for par and I thought if I played every hole as a par five, I might be able to make some birdies. That’s when I decided I was just going to make a new par. Otherwise I would have been very upset."

He said 70 was just a number.

"It’s almost impossible," he said. "If anybody shoots under par, it’s like a six- or seven-under par round. Par is just a new number. We’re used to shooting under par and here you’re just going to have to take it – you’re not going to shoot under par. But it’s the same for everybody."

Despite the struggles, Janzen has fallen in love with No. 2.

"I would love to play here again," he said. "I hope we come back soon, and hopefully the conditions are exactly what everybody expected them to be – hot, dry, no rain and a south wind, not a north wind. I’d like my chances better then."