Key occasions
Xander Schauffele was all around the store yesterday, and did very effectively to emerge comparatively unscathed with a level-par spherical of 70. The newly topped PGA champion is as much as his outdated methods once more right now, carving his second into the bushes down the fitting of 10, then flying his third from the pine straw over the again of the inexperienced. His wedge up from the again zips 12 ft previous, and he can’t make the par saver. He slips to +1. Pars in the meantime for each Rory McIlroy (-5) and Scottie Scheffler (+1).
Viktor Hovland is again together with his outdated swing coach Joe Mayo. A call that has, on the entire, rescued his season from catastrophe, although you’ll be able to by no means repair every little thing in a single fell swoop, and yesterday’s 78 was a stark reminder that there’s nonetheless work to do. There’ll be no maiden main for the reigning FedEx champ and two-time PGA runner-up this week. Anyway, he’s began right now’s restore job with an iron clacked down the center of 1, as have his enjoying companions Bryson DeChambeau (-3) and Max Homa (+1), and I can’t be the one particular person whose thoughts turns to Seinfeld when the topic of Hovland’s teaching preparations comes up.
An early birdie for Brandon Robinson-Thompson. The 31-year-old from the Isle of Wight is enjoying in his first US Open and solely his second main – he performed all 4 days at Hoylake in final yr’s Open – and is having fun with himself to date this week. A 72 yesterday, and now a birdie at 10 to start out off his second spherical. He’s +1 general, and with intensive expertise of {golfing} in neighbouring South Carolina, will fancy his possibilities of surviving one other major-championship minimize and constructing from there.
It’s not likely breaking information to tell you that Pinehurst No2 is enjoying laborious and quick right now. Sky Sports activities have simply illustrated that reality by displaying a few pictures into 1 this morning by Mark Hubbard and Adam Svensson: each gamers landed their ball softly beside the pin, just for a small quantity of backspin to ship their ball again onto the green, first slowly, then in a short time. Good comedian timing, with affronted reactions to match. Not fairly so amusing when it occurs to you or your favorite, in fact. It might be an extended day for the gamers until they discover their touchdown spots. The margin between success and failure so advantageous, however then it’s the US Open, so.
So will Rory McIlroy proceed his upwardly cell momentum within the wake of that birdie on 18 final night time? He’s admitted that he solely walked within the putt as a result of he thought he’d left it brief, which was trustworthy of him however kinda ruined the mic-drop impact; both approach, although, it’s given the 2011 champion an enormous enhance as he pursues that elusive fifth main. He’s out early this morning, and his first drive down 10 is a factor of club-twirling perfection. His enjoying companions Xander Schauffele and the world primary Scottie Scheffler additionally cut up the green. It’s going to be an thrilling morning!
Preamble
… and we’re again. Twelve hours in the past, give or take, the primary day of the 124th version of the US Open got here to an in depth. Now we’re again up and operating once more! Friday guarantees to be one other Homeric odyssey, and we’ll be running a blog about it ♫♪ all day looooooonng♫♪. Right this moment’s second-round tee occasions are beneath, however first right here’s how the very high of a star-studded leaderboard seemed on the finish of play final night time …
-5: Cantlay, McIlroy
-4: Åberg
-3: Pavon, DeChambeau
-2: Finau, Hatton, Bhatia
… and listed below are right now’s tee occasions (USA until said, all occasions BST, (a) denotes amateurs). It’s on!
Beginning at gap 1
1145 Grant Forrest (Sco), Greyson Sigg, (a) Wells Williams
1156 Chesson Hadley, Mark Hubbard, Adam Svensson (Can)
1207 Beau Hossler, Victor Perez (Fra), Adam Schenk
1218 Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Nick Taylor (Can)
1229 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Tom Hoge
1240 Bryson DeChambeau, Max Homa, Viktor Hovland (Nor)
1251 Peter Malnati, J. T. Poston, Sepp Straka (Aut)
1302 Jake Knapp, (a) Gordon Sargent, Cameron Younger
1313 Billy Horschel, Chris Kirk, Adam Scott (Aus)
1324 (a) Benjamin James, Ben Kohles, Denny McCarthy
1335 Frankie Capan, (a) Luke Clanton, Andrew Svoboda
1346 Harry Higgs, (a) Hiroshi Tai (Sgp), Brandon Wu
1357 Otto Black, Chris Naegel, Joey Vrzich
1730 Rico Hoey (Phi), Matteo Manassero (Ita), Tom McKibbin (NIrl)
1741 Dean Burmester (Rsa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Seamus Energy (Irl)
1752 Seong-Hyeon Kim (Kor), Justin Decrease, Tim Widing (Swe)
1803 Sam Burns, Lucas Glover, Cameron Smith (Aus)
1814 Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Tiger Woods, Will Zalatoris
1825 Patrick Cantlay, Russell Henley, Matt Kuchar
1836 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Tony Finau, Dustin Johnson
1847 Justin Rose (Eng), Webb Simpson, Gary Woodland
1858 Daniel Berger, Ryan Fox (Nzl), David Puig (Spa)
1909 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Sam Bennett, Edoardo Molinari (Ita)
1920 Cameron Davis (Aus), Austin Eckroat, Adrian Meronk (Pol)
1931 Zachary Blair, Aaron Rai (Eng), Davis Thompson
1942 Willie Mack III, Richard Mansell (Eng), Ashton McCulloch (Can)
Beginning at gap 10
1145 Brandon Thompson (Eng), Jason Scrivener (Aus), (a) Brendan Valdes
1156 Sam Bairstow (Eng), (a) Santiago De la Fuente (Mex), Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra (Spa)
1207 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Kurt Kitayama, Taylor Moore
1218 Jason Day (Aus), Harris English, Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor)
1229 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler
1240 Wyndham Clark, Nick Dunlap, Brian Harman
1251 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Jackson Suber, Jordan Spieth
1302 Keegan Bradley, Martin Kaymer (Ger), Shane Lowry (Irl)
1313 Akshay Bhatia, Eric Cole, Erik van Rooyen (Rsa)
1324 Alexander Noren (Swe), Taylor Pendrith (Can), Brendon Todd
1335 (a) Jackson Buchanan, Brian Campbell, Thomas Detry (Bel)
1346 (a) Gunnar Broin, Maxwell Moldovan, Taisei Shimuzu (Jpn)
1357 John Chin, Sung-Hoon Kang (Kor), Riki Kawamoto (Jpn)
1730 Carter Jenkins, Logan McAllister, Michael McGowan
1741 (a) Parker Bell, Frederik Kjettrup (Den), Christopher Petefish
1752 Max Greyserman, Casey Jarvis (Rsa), (a) Omar Morales (Mex)
1803 Corey Conners (Can), Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Stephan Jaeger (Ger)
1814 Sergio Garcia (Spa), Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn), Francesco Molinari (Ita)
1825 Brooks Koepka, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas
1836 Rickie Fowler, Adam Hadwin (Can), Phil Mickelson
1847 Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Min-Woo Lee (Aus), Sahith Theegala
1858 Sung-Jae Im (Kor), Si-Woo Kim (Kor), Matthieu Pavon (Fra)
1909 Nicolas Echavarria (Col), Robert Rock (Eng), (a) Neal Shipley
1920 (a) Stewart Hagestad, Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), Mac Meissner
1931 Jim Herman, Bryan Kim, Isaiah Salinda
1942 (a) Colin Prater, Charles Reiter, Carson Schaake
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