Ewan Murray’s report is below ... and here’s how the top of the leaderboard looks after an exciting – but very long – day at Brookline. Thanks for reading this blog. Moving Day tomorrow! Join us for that. Nighty night!
-5: Morikawa, Dahmen
-4: Buckley, Rahm, McIlroy, Wise, Hossler
-3: Hardy, Scheffler, NeSmith, Rodgers, Harman
-2: Burns, Fitzpatrick, Hadwin
-1: Daffue, Tarren, Vick (a), Lingmerth, Riley, Schauffele, Bradley, Zalatoris
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The cut will be +3. That means we’ll be saying goodbye to some big names: Sergio Garcia, Im Sung-jae, Mito Pereira, Cory Conners, Webb Simpson, Shane Lowry, Jason Kokrak, Jim Furyk, Cameron Young, Stewart Cink, Kevin Na, Tony Finau, Kim Si-woo, Daniel Berger, Harold Varner III, Branden Grace, Cameron Smith, Louis Oosthuizen, Francesco Molinari, Viktor Hovland, Tommy Fleetwood and Phil Mickelson.
Beau Hossler has taken advantage of that outrageous scoreboard-assisted break on 5 in some style! Having birdied there, he made another at 8, and has just holed out from a greenside bunker at 18 for his third birdie in the last five holes! That’s wheeched him up the standings to -4, just one off the lead! The 27-year-old hasn’t won on the PGA Tour yet. He may as well go for the kingpin. His 67 is one of only two bogey-free rounds today, the other carded by 19-year-old South Korean Kim Joo-hyung, who shot 68 and goes into the weekend at level par.
Dahmen lets his downhill dribbler slide away to the right. Par, but that’s a fine 68 to go alongside yesterday’s 67, and he’ll be going out last with Collin Morikawa tomorrow afternoon.
-5: Morikawa (F), Dahmen (F)
Joel Dahmen saves the best until last! He takes advantage of the lucky break from the wild drive to arrow an iron straight at the flag, over the bunkers guarding the green, to ten feet. He’ll take a look at a birdie that’d give him sole ownership the 36-hole lead!
Dahmen sends a big slice into the stragglers of the gallery down the right. An awful drive, but he gets away with it, his ball sitting up on trodden-down turf.
Dahmen can’t make his birdie putt at 17. He remains at -5, he’s one par away from going out last tomorrow afternoon with Collin Morikawa.
Joel Dahmen sends his second over the flag at 17, utilising the camber of the green to gather his ball back to 15 feet. A good look at a birdie that would give him the outright lead.
Aaron Wise bumps a cute little chip from the back of 18 to a couple of feet, and tidies up for his par and a second 68 of the week. He’s -4 going into the weekend, one off the current lead. On 17, the renowned escapologist Joel Dahmen sends his drive into the first cut down the right. And back on 9, Cameron Young can’t make birdie and ends with a second 72 of the week. At +4, he’s almost certainly going to miss the cut by one, but nothing’s decided for sure quite yet, and stranger things have happened at the tail end of a Friday. A back nine of 5-3-8-5-3-1-3-4-4, for example.
Joel Dahmen’s tee shot at the par-three 16th flies over the back-right corner of the green. The flag’s front left. His delicate chip down the green looks well judged, only to suddenly pick up speed and turn left towards the end. He’s left with a tricky ten footer to save his par. But he’s a calm customer, and in it goes! He remains in a share at -5. But on 18, the golfing gods, having given something to Aaron Wise on 17, snatch a bit back. His approach gets over a bunker but hits the shoulder and ricochets into thick nonsense at the back. A big up and down coming up.
A couple of big moments to affect the top of the leaderboard. First up, Aaron Wise looks to be in trouble in thick rough down the left of 17. No problem! He powers a wedge out, his ball clattering into the flagstick and nearly slam-dunking into the hole for eagle. Instead, he taps in for a birdie that takes him to -4. Then on 15, Joel Dahmen sends a tramliner across the green and in for an unlikely birdie and a share of the lead! A three-putt bogey was a distinct possibility there. Hey, you take your luck when it’s going and move on.
-5: Morikawa (F), Dahmen (15)
-4: Buckley (F), Rahm (F), McIlroy (F), Wise (17)
So the projected cut is still +3, and looks more likely than not to stay there. What of the hole-in-one hero Cameron Young, then? Well, here’s his scores for the last six holes: a quadruple-bogey eight, bogey five, birdie, hole-in-one, birdie, birdie. He’ll need something up 9 for one of the great escapes. He surely can’t, can he?
Schauffele wedges to six feet. Not the greatest chip but he’ll have a chance to salvage his par. He leaves his putt on the high side, though, and it’s a disappointing bogey to finish. He signs for a 71. He’s -1. McIlroy meanwhile races his birdie effort five feet past, leaving a nerve-jangling par putt that will do much to set the tone for his weekend. In it goes, and that’s a fine 69, back in 33, that early double bogey – which could have been a couple of shots worse, too – now a character-building memory! He’s -4.
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McIlroy finds the heart of 18 with his second. No risks, but he’ll have a look at birdie from 20 feet or so. Schauffele meanwhile gets a break, his ball on a patch of grass trodden down by the gallery, though he can only whistle his second up towards the fringe of a bunker guarding the front of the green.
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One of the stranger birdies of the week is made by Beau Hossler on 5. He lashes his tee short hard, hoping to reach the green at the short par-four, but sends a huge hook way left. The ball caroms off a scoreboard and comes straight back right and onto the fairway. A chip and a putt, and he’s -2.
Rory McIlroy at 18. He whips a 3-wood down the right-hand side of the fairway. Prime real estate. Xander Schauffele sends his effort into the gallery on the right. Back on 16, Keegan Bradley doesn’t commit to a delicate greenside chip and, having barely moved his ball, is forced to have another go. He does very well to keep calm and gently bundle the next attempt to kick-in distance. But that’s another shot gone, and in short order. He’s back to -1.
Keegan Bradley’s run of six birdies in eight holes comes to a sorry end at 15. He misses a five-footer for par and drops back to -2.
It’s been an awful final few holes for David Lingmerth. A three-putt bogey at 18, and that’s four shots gone in the last six. Disappointment is etched across his face as he shakes hands on a 72. He’s -1 for the week so far.
Rory McIlroy sends his approach into 17 a few feet past the flag. His ball spins back 15 feet, leaving him with a perfectly straight uphill ten-foot birdie putt. In it goes, and he’s suddenly in red figures for the day! Xander Schauffele meanwhile nearly spins his wedge in for eagle, but settles for a par that takes him to -2. This has been a sensational back nine by the Californian.
-5: Morikawa (F)
-4: Buckley (F), Rahm (F), McIlroy (17), Dahmen (13)
A fuss-free par for Collin Morikawa at 9, and he’s signing for a best-of-day 66. He’s the new clubhouse leader at -5, though he still looks a little bit frustrated over that eagle yip on the previous hole. High standards. Jon Rahm meanwhile nearly drains a 30-footer for birdie, but he settles for a kick-in par and a 67. He’s -4 going into the weekend.
-5: Morikawa (F)
-4: Buckley (F), Rahm (F), Dahmen (13)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), NeSmith (F), Rodgers (F), McIlroy (16), Harman (15), Bradley (14), Wise (14)
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Rory McIlroy’s tee shot into 16 is bang average. His long birdie effort isn’t all that either. He does extremely well to hold his nerve and make the six-footer for par he leaves himself. He remains two off Collin Morikawa’s lead at -3. And as if to prove the point made in the previous entry, the projected cut is back to +3. Let’s wait and see.
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Mind you, having said that ... the projected cut has just moved out to +4. So you never know. As things stand, it would only take one of the 11 players currently at +4 to improve their position by one stroke by the end of play to send the cut back in to +3, so it’s probably not worth worrying about until later. But quite a few big names are hoping it will stay at +4: Sergio Garcia, Im Sung-jae, Shane Lowry, Mito Pereira, Patrick Cantlay, Corey COnners and Webb Simpson, to name just a few.
Cameron Young tied for third at last month’s PGA Championship. It looks as though he’ll be missing his third US Open cut in three attempts as he stands on the par-three 6th with 8-iron in hand ... but he’ll have something to remember this week by, because he sends his tee shot straight at the flag. Two soft bounces and a roll, and it’s a hole in one! The 48th in US Open history! He’s +5.
An absolutely shocking eagle putt by Collin Morikawa on 8. He pulls it way left from just five feet, and has to settle for birdie. It still gives him the sole lead at -5, one ahead of his playing partner Jon Rahm, who will be feeling a lot better about his birdie, made by taking two putts from distance.
-5: Morikawa (17*)
-4: Buckley (F), Rahm (17*), Dahmen (12)
Par for Matthew NeSmith at the 9th. He signs for a 69 to go alongside yesterday’s 68; he’s -3, making the cut seven years after his only other US Open appearance, a missed cut at Chambers Bay in 2015. His playing partner Patrick Rodgers also pars; he’s carded 68 today after yesterday’s 69. Meanwhile yet another birdie for Keegan Bradley, who joins the group tied for fifth at -3.
An astonishing second shot at the par-five 8th from Collin Morikawa! He creams a long iron into the front of the green, the ball rolling serenely to within five feet! Pop that in for eagle, and he’ll suddenly be two clear of the field ... and one par away from a 65 on a day when low scoring has been a pipe dream for most! Meanwhile David Lingmerth continues to trend in the wrong direction, finding a bunker at the par-three 16th and failing to get up and down. His third bogey in four holes, and the erstwhile leader is back in the pack at -2.
Brian Harman bounces back from that double at 13 with birdie at 14. He’s back to -3, though there’s a little controversy surrounding his chip from the fringe at the previous hole. A suggestion he might have either moved his ball or improved his lie while pressing his wedge down behind it in the longer rough. The footage doesn’t look particularly damning, or conclusive, so assume it’s all idle chatter unless we hear more.
Poor old Callum Tarren has stumbled home rather. Bogeys at 13 and 16, then he sends his second into thick cabbage over the back of 18. His high whip out doesn’t go close, he can’t make the 15-footer he leaves himself, and it’s a closing bogey. He signs for a 72 and is -1 overall. He’d have taken this yesterday morning, but still. By contrast, his playing partner Hayden Buckley has enjoyed a sensational back nine. Birdies at 12, 14, 17 and now 18, the last one reward for a clever approach that he sent past the flag, using the contours of the green to gather the ball back to four feet. That’s his second 68 of the week, and he joins Collin Morikawa and Joel Dahmen in the lead at -4!
Rory McIlroy finds the par-five 14th in two. He’s a long, long, long way from the flag at the front, facing a monster eagle putt that goes over a ridge across the green. Plenty of left-to-right break, too. He very nearly drains it. What a lag, and it’s a tap-in birdie that finally takes him back to where he started before that fiasco at 3. He’s -3 and just one off the lead again!
Getting down in two putts is by no means certain from the distance Dahmen finds himself. But he lags up beautifully, ensuring the damage is limited to bogey. A double meanwhile for Brian Harman, whose approach stops above the lip of a bunker. With one leg in, one leg out, he sails a chip through the green and into the rough on the other side. His next chip is seriously undercooked, and two putts later he finds himself back at -2.
-4: Morikawa (15*), Dahmen (10)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Buckley (17), Lingmerth (14), Rahm (15*), Wise (12)
-2: Burns (F), Fitzpatrick (F), Hadwin (F), Tarren (17), NeSmith (16*), Rodgers (16*), McIlroy (13), Harman (13), Nradley (12)
Trouble for the leader Joel Dahmen on 10. He sends the blind approach into a bunker to the left of the green, and doesn’t make a particularly good job of splashing out. His ball races way past the hole, and only just stops short of the fringe at the front. He’ll have a very long putt for par.
What about this run of holes from the 2011 PGA champion Keegan Bradley? Having shot 70 yesterday, he started shoddily today, with bogey and 2 and double at 5. But he’s just birdied 7, 8, 9, 10 and now 12 to get himself into contention at -2. Meanwhile Hayden Buckley, the 26-year-old from Chattanooga, is heading home like a train. Birdies at 12, 14 and now 17, and he finds himself in a tie for fourth at -3.
David Lingmerth’s driver lets him down again. He finds himself out of position from the get-go at the par-five 14th, and eventually pushes a tentative effort to save par wide right from eight feet. Back-to-back bogeys, and the Swede drops to -3.
A crowd-teasing, crowd-pleasing birdie putt by Xander Schauffele at 13! He steers in a downhill 25-footer with plenty of right-to-left swing ... though for a second it looks like curling behind the hole, before hesitating on the lip at the back of the cup and toppling in! Schauffele - who has never finished below seventh at the US Open - blows out his cheeks theatrically before smiling widely. He’s back to level par, with momentum and a par five coming up.
Par for the leader Joel Dahmen at 9, and he’s turning in 33. Meanwhile on the drivable par-four 5th, the defending champ Jon Rahm carries a 3-wood 300 yards to land his ball on the green. It bounds towards the back, from where he takes two putts. The birdie brings him up to -3, and despite not being quite on it so far this week, is right in the mix with a chance of defending his title.
Callum Tarren finds himself in a bunker at the par-three 16th. His splash out rolls a good 15 feet past, and the compounded error costs him another stroke. He slips to -2.
... so within seconds of saying that, Joel Dahmen grabs the lead for himself! He really should be two clear, but having crashed his second at the par-five 8th to 15 feet, he leaves a straight eagle putt one inch short. Still, a lead at the US Open is a lead at the US Open is a lead at the US Open.
-5: Dahmen (8)
-4: Lingmerth (13), Morikawa (13*), Harman (11)
Rory McIlroy is popular around Boston way - that Celtic spirit, you see - and the gallery roars its approval when he steers in a 20-foot right-to-left breaker at 12. A birdie that takes him back to -2 ... and he’s suddenly only two off the lead, despite it all, on account of Collin Morikawa’s inability to get up and down from an extremely tricky position up the bank to the side of 4.
-4: Lingmerth (13), Morikawa (13*), Harman (11), Dahmen (7)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Tarren (14), Wise (10)
-2: Burns (F), Fitzpatrick (F), Hadwin (F), Buckley (14), NeSmith (14*), Rodgers (14*), Rahm (13*) McIlroy (12), Schenk (9*)
An errant drive at 13 leads to bogey for David Lingmerth, who drops out of the lead, back to -4. He might soon have Collin Morikawa for company again, mind you, because the now sole leader sends his approach at 4 into thick filth to the right of the green, and he’ll have work to do to save his par.
Xander Schauffele and Hideki Matsuyama knock their tee shots at the dinky par-three 11th to 15 feet. Rory McIlroy sends his to 20. McIlroy can’t make his birdie putt, but his playing partners can. McIlroy remains at -1, while Matsuyama rises to level par and Schauffele +1.
One thing we know for certain: Phil Mickelson, the six-time US Open runner-up, won’t be here this weekend. Lefty took his leave today after struggling to a 73, which at least was a marked improvement on yesterday’s birthday-boy nightmare 78. Ewan Murray is at Brookline, and here’s his take on a rebel who has become a “competitive irrelevance” a mere 13 months after his historic PGA win.
It’s lovely and sunny now. Fingers crossed, but it looks as though the storms have given Brookline the bodyswerve.
Rory McIlroy’s wedge in from 90 yards is decent, nothing more. Pin high, but pulled 25 feet to the left. He can’t make the par saver, and is back to -1 again.
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Having just joined Lingmerth in the lead, Morikawa pulls an uncharacteristically dismal iron at the par-three 2nd way left. But he restores order with a glorious lob out of thick oomska to three feet, and makes off with his par. Meanwhile trouble for McIlroy at 10, as he hooks violently into filth down the left. He’s forced to take his medicine and chip out. His much-vaunted improved approach play will get a good road test here.
Bogey for Callum Tarren at 13, the man from Darlo unable to scramble from a greenside bunker. Meanwhile the co-leader David Lingmerth isn’t giving anything away right now. Having bounced a poor tee shot at 11 through the back of the green, he doesn’t get particularly close with his chip, but rattles in the 25-footer to remain in a share.
-5: Lingmerth (11), Morikawa (10*)
-4: Harman (8), Wise (8), Dahmen (6)
A backwards move for the defending champion. Jon Rahm drives into a fairway bunker at 1. Unable to take a shy at the green, he’s always out of position thereafter, and the bogey tips him back to -2. But his playing partner, the Open champion Collin Morikawa, makes another stride forward. He arrows his second into the heart of the green, to 25 feet from the best part of 200 yards, and pours in the birdie putt. He joins David Lingmerth at the top on -5, and it’s worth pointing out that he’s currently four under for his round through ten holes, on a day when birdies are very much at a premium. This is some performance. When Morikawa’s putter gets hot, it gets molten.
Brian Harman joins the group in second spot. He’s the width of a dimple away from eagle at 8, having launched his approach to ten feet. He’s -4.
David Lingmerth pops his birdie putt at 10 into the cup. There’s a new look to the leaderboard.
-5: Lingmerth (10)
-4: Tarren (12), Morikawa (9*), Dahmen (5)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Rahm (9*), Harman (7), Wise (7)
-2: Burns (F), Fitzpatrick (F), Hadwin (F), NeSmith (11*), McIlroy (8)
Rory McIlroy bumps carefully out from the rough to the back of 8. He’s not far from holing out for eagle, but a tap-in birdie brings him back to -2. Xander Schauffele, from a similar position, can’t get up and down, and he drops back to +2. Meanwhile Joel Dahmen rejoins the leaders at -4 with birdie at 5, though he won’t be in a share for long, because David Lingmerth creams a blind approach into 10 and is an inch or so away from eagle. When he gets over the hillock to see what’s going on, he’ll be tapping in for sole ownership of the lead.
Jordan Spieth doesn’t have his A-game this week, and his putter’s playing up a bit, but he’s not going to give up, is he. He whips a wedge from the rough down the left of 17 to three feet, and tidies up for a birdie that brings him back to +1. Meanwhile in the group ahead, Collin Morikawa gets up and down from sand to scramble his par, and the Open champion has played the back nine in 32 strokes. Should he prevail this week, he’ll be one green jacket away from a career slam. He’s 25!
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Xander Schauffele drives into the trees down the left of 8 and finds his ball resting against a tree root. The sensible decision would be to take an unplayable, given the possible damage that could be done to his wrist/club/spirit. But he fancies his chances, and wins the man-versus-nature showdown by powering back towards the rough by the fairway, taking one hand off the grip the split second after impact. No damage done, though he can’t find the green with his third, and faces a tricky up and down from the cabbage at the back.
So having said that, Collin Morikawa rolls in a 15-footer across 17 to join the leaders! Incidentally, we were given a bum steer by an NBC caption a few minutes ago; McIlroy wasn’t putting for birdie on 6, but to save his par. That entry’s been corrected, but just to clarify, he’s -1, and we’ll forgive NBC anything and everything, they gifted us Seinfeld after all.
-4: Tarren (11), Lingmerth (8), Morikawa (8*)
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Lingmerth walks after a five-foot birdie putt on 8, in the belief he’s just taken the lead by himself. The ball lips out. He taps home, a little stunned, and he stays at -4. Back over to Tarren, then, who lobs his wedge at the tiny par three to six feet. But he fails to read the left-to-right tilt of the green, and that’s yet another chance passed by. Not a great deal of leaderboard movement right now.
-4: Tarren (11), Lingmerth (8)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Morikawa (7*), Rahm (7*), Harman (6), Wise (5), Dahmen (4)
-2: Burns (F), Fitzpatrick (F), Hadwin (F), NeSmith (9*)
Terren creams a gorgeous iron into 10 from 175 yards to eight feet. One of the shots of the day ... but sadly not followed by a putt to seal the deal. A bit of a shove, just a par, and he remains tied for the lead with Lingmerth at -4.
McIlroy sends his tee shot into 6. Nowhere near the pin. He rolls a 40 footer ten feet past, then doesn’t read the right-to-left break coming back. Bogey. He slips to -1. Schauffele however rattles in a ten-foot birdie attempt of his own to return to +1.
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David Lingmerth strokes in a straight 20-footer on 7. Once again Callum Tarren is forced to share his lead!
-4: Tarren (9), Lingmerth (7)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Morikawa (6*), Rahm (6*), Harman (4), Dahmen (2)
-2: Burns (F), Fitzpatrick (F), Hadwin (F), NeSmith (8*), McIlroy (5), Wise (4)
Joel Dahman sends his tee shot at 2 straight at the flag. One more bounce and he’d be close. But he’s left with a 20-footer for his birdie. Having just reached the top of the leaderboard, he clacks one over-excitedly past the hole, and can’t make the five footer coming back. Careless, and Callum Tarren has the lead all to himself agai... hold on ...
Rory McIlroy nearly repairs all the damage caused by that double at 3 in one fell swoop. He’s slightly unlucky that his tee shot at the drivable par-four 5th snags in the rough near the front of the green, but he bumps a beautiful right-to-left curling chip up to the hole anyway, and the ball shaves the right lip. He makes the one coming back, and suddenly life doesn’t look so bad. He’s -2. A three-putt par for his partner Xander Schauffele, though, having come so close to making the eagle effort. Having bogeyed 2 and 3, Schauffele trudges off glumly, stuck at +2.
Tarren’s birdie putt on 9 lips out. A chance to reclaim sole ownership of the lead missed by millimetres.
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Joel Dahmen joins Callum Tarren in the lead! Out in one of the final groups, he bundles his approach at 1 into the heart of the green, his ball coming to an elegant stop three feet from the flag. After waiting an age while his playing partners faff about, he taps in for an opening birdie. How long he’ll remain with a share is a moot point, though, because on 9, Tarren fires his second straight at the flag and will have an uphill look at birdie from five feet or so.
-4: Tarren (8), Dahmen (1)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Lingmerth (5), Morikawa (5*), Rahm (5*), Harman (3), Wise (3)
Collin Morikawa makes his second birdie of the day, at the par-five 14th, and the reigning Open champion moves to -3. His playing partner Jon Rahm, fresh from dropping one at the previous hole, batters a monster drive down the track, lashes an iron to eight feet, and tickles in the eagle putt! The defending champ moves to one off the lead as well, and this is beginning to heat up.
-4: Tarren (8)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Lingmerth (5), Morikawa (5*), Rahm (5*), Harman (3), Wise (3)
Tarren clips his ball onto the 8th green with delicate hands, allowing it to slowly make its way down the slope and ... nearly in! A couple of millimetres to the left, and he was carding an outrageous birdie. But he’ll take that par from where he was. He remains one clear at -4.
Trouble for the leader Callum Tarren on the par-five 8th. Having found a poor lie in the rough with his drive, he chips out, then blades his third over the back. He’ll do well to get up and down from the cabbage from there. Meanwhile on 5, David Lingmerth – coming off the back of an outrageous up-and-down from a fairway bunker to save par on 4 – smacks the pin with his chip up to 5. No idea how his ball didn’t drop for eagle, but it’s a birdie that cancels out a shot carelessly dropped at 2. He’s -3.
McIlroy manages to whip his ball into the heart of the green ... but that’s his third attempt to do so. He’s left with a 22-footer for double bogey. You know what’s coming up next, don’t you. In goes the right-to-left slider, limiting the damage, and it’s a double bogey the gallery celebrate like a birdie. McIlroy won’t be happy about that, let’s not be daft – it’s a double from the centre of the fairway – but he’ll feel a lot less bad than he did before making that putt. He’s -1.
An eventful start for the 2015 champion Jordan Spieth. Bogey at 10, but irons arrowed to three feet at both 11 and 12 for birdies. He moves up to +1. Meanwhile bother for Rory McIlroy at 3. He sends his approach into thick fescue up a bank to the right of the green. He takes a slash at the half-visible ball and barely moves it. He’s still in the thick stuff, shortsided, up a bank, with a bunker to clear. The ball hardly moves on take two. Oh dear. A big score coming up.
Brian Harman knocks his hybrid pin high at 2 and rolls in his first birdie of the day. He joins the group one off Tarren’s lead at -3.
The rain that had been forecast, then not forecast, has arrived. This should in theory make the greens a wee bit more receptive, allowing for slightly better scoring in the afternoon. We’ll see if anyone makes a break for it. Callum Tarren however can’t get up and down from a greenside bunker at 6 and his lead is just the one again.
-4: Tarren (6)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Buckley (6), NeSmith (4*), McIlroy (2), Dahmen
Right, we’re back, baby! So what have we missed? Callum Tarren extended his lead with birdie at the short par-four 5th. Jon Rahm and Collin Morikawa have picked up strokes at 12. Heyden Buckley and Matthew NeSmith birdied 4 and 13 respectively. But perhaps most impressively, Adam Hadwin finished with birdies at 8 and 9, a glorious end to an otherwise miserable day, and a denouement that turns a damaging round into a workable 72.
-5: Tarren (5)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Buckley (5), NeSmith (4*), McIlroy (1), Dahmen
-2: Burns (F), Fitzpatrick (F), Hadwin (F), Rodgers (4*), Lingmerth (3), Morikawa (3*), Rahm (3*), Harman (1), Wise
No closing birdie for Matt Fitzpatrick, but he finishes with a level-par 70 that initially promised more, then threatened a lot less. He goes into Moving Day at -2, just one off the current clubhouse lead and two off Callum Tarren’s tournament lead. Bogey for Dustin Johnson at the last and he goes into the weekend at +1, as does Justin Rose after a scrappy 73.
A good point, then, to park this blog for a while, as your honest hack pops off to source some ice-cold water and other refreshments. Back at 7pm with updates of the early second-wave action!
-4: Tarren (3)
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Lingmerth (1), McIlroy, Dahmen
-2: Burns (F), Fitzpatrick (F), Buckley (3), NeSmith (2*), Rodgers (2*), Harman, Wise
We’ve already had one surprise package making a break for it today in MJ Daffue. Now Callum Tarren hits the front with birdie at 3! He’s -4. Meanwhile over on 9, Matt Fitzpatrick finds the centre of the green in regulation, and will have a look at birdie from about 30 feet.
Matt Fitzpatrick finds the centre of the par-five 8th with a booming drive and a long iron. Anything Brooks Koepka can do ... well, not quite, because he can’t make his eagle putt, but birdie takes him back to -2, and this has been a sturdy response to the three consecutive bogeys that took him down to level par.
Birdie at the last for Justin Thomas, who never really got going after an abysmal double bogey, bogey start. A disappointing 72 to go alongside yesterday’s 69, but that finish will put the reigning PGA champion in a slightly better humour, and it’s not as though he’s miles off the pace at +1 overall.
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It’s extremely hard to dislike MJ Daffue, who remains in high spirits despite coming home in 40 strokes. When asked about his decision not to take a drop from the hospitality box at 14 and hit 3-wood off the carpet instead, the 33-year-old South African, playing in his first major championship, has just told Sky Sports with a smile and a twinkle in his eye: “We’re here for entertainment, right? So I figured, why not entertain them a little bit?!”
Scottie Scheffler can’t make his birdie putt on 18, but his par is enough for a 67. He joins Nick Hardy in the clubhouse lead. Meanwhile Darlington’s Callum Tarren nearly opens his second round with a long birdie rake at 1, but a nerve-settling par will suffice.
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (F), Tarren (1), Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
-2: Burns (F), Buckley (1), NeSmith, Harman, Wise
-1: Daffue (F), Fitzpatrick (16*), Rodgers, Morikawa, Piot, Rahm, Scott, Homa, Zalatoris, Hossler
Some closing run by Thomas Pieters! Birdies at 13, 14, 15 and 17 whisk the Belgian, who had been skirting with the cutline, all the way up the standings to level par. A 68 to go alongside yesterday’s 72.
Brooks Koepka pars the last and signs for a 67. That would have been better were it not for an overly aggressive lip-out at 15 that cost bogey. Anyway, it repairs the damage of yesterday’s average 73, and the 2017 and 2018 winner goes into the weekend at level par for the tournament.
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Scottie Scheffler flicked a switch on this back nine. Two birdies and a chip-in eagle, and he comes up the 18th in style. He splits the fairway, then sends his second to 12 feet, from where he’ll have a look at birdie and the outright lead.
Par up the last for Sam Burns, and he signs for a superb 67. In these trickier conditions, that’s a fine card, and it could have been a couple of shots better, too, had two lip-outs on the back nine dropped. He’s -2, one behind the clubhouse and tournament lead.
The last we heard of Viktor Hovland, he was completing his first nine holes, the back nine, in level-par 35. But that was having bogeyed 17 and 18, and since then he’s suffered a total capitulation. Bogeys at 1, 2, 3 and 4 made it six on the bounce, then another at 6. Having risen to -2 less than three hours ago, he’s +5 now and as things stand, unlikely to make it to the weekend.
Phil Mickelson has endured a nightmare this week. A 78 yesterday on his 52nd birthday, followed by bogeys at 13, 14, 15 and 4 today. But they don’t call him Phil the Thrill for nothing, and even at this low ebb, he’s got a way of getting the gallery going. They whoop and cavort as he rolls in a long one for birdie at 5 ... then an absolute monster at 6 for another! He’s away home soon, at +10, but as always, he’s left a little something to remember him by.
A good time to update the leaderboard, then ... not least because Scottie Scheffler has joined the folk at the very top after easing his iron at 16 to ten feet and rolling in the rock. Birdie meanwhile for Sam Burns at 17, richly deserved given he had lip-outs for birdie on the previous two holes.
-3: Hardy (F), Scheffler (16), Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
-2: Burns (17), Buckley, NeSmith, Harman, Wise
-1: Daffue (F), Fitzpatrick (15*), Reed (13), Rodgers, Morikawa, Piot, Rahm, Scott, Homa, Zalatoris, Hossler
Nick Hardy gets up and down from a greenside bunker at 9, and he adds a 68 to yesterday’s 69. He’s the early clubhouse leader at -3, with a share of the tournament lead, and there’s a fair chance he won’t be far off at the end of the day either, with conditions expected to get harder as the sun blazes down, baking the greens. No sign of the rain or storms we were earlier promised.
MJ Daffue can’t make his bogey putt on 18, though his ball shaves the lip. A double to end with, and he’s back in 40 strokes, having gone out on 32. He was inches away from reaching the heights of -7 at the 10th; he’s finished the day at -1, signing for a rollercoaster 72. He’d have taken this position at the start of the week, but, well, y’know.
A sickening end to the round for MJ Daffue is unfolding. His drive finds thick fescue just above a bunker to the left of the fairway. With one foot in the sand, he can only send a power-free second into a bunker guarding the front of the green. He then blades one over the green and up a bank on the other side. He’s short-sided in thick rough with a downhill lie. Oh, and he has to navigate a bunker. He tries to be a bit too cute with his fourth shot, and only just gets his ball onto the green. That wasn’t far away from snagging in more rough. He’ll have a putt from the fringe from 20 feet for bogey.
This is impressive from Matt Fitzpatrick. He’s just carded three bogeys in a row. His tee shot at 5 finds greenside sand, from where he whips to three feet, tidying up for birdie. That’s a big momentum shifter that takes him back up to -1.
Nick Hardy finds the fringe of the par-five 8th in two. A couple of putts later, the 26-year-old from Illinois, making his first serious impression at a major championship, finds himself in a share of the lead at -3.
One hell of a par scramble for MJ Daffue on 17! His drive finds sand down the left. He’s not far off finding the green with his second, but the ball topples back off the false front ... and into an old divot. That’s awfully unfortunate. But he rolls a confident putt up the bank, six feet past the hole, and makes the one coming back. He deserved that. Meanwhile a third bogey in succession for Matt Fitzpatrick, this one the result of a three putt on 4, and he’s back in the pack at level par, alongside the overnight leader Adam Hadwin, who ships his fourth bogey of the round at 2. Some big names on this leaderboard now!
-3: Daffue (17), Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
-2: Hardy (16*), Scheffler (14), Buckley, NeSmith, Harman, Wise
-1: Burns (15), Koepka (14), Reed (11), Rodgers, Morikawa, Piot, Rahm, Scott, Homa, Zalatoris, Hossler
A couple of hours ago, the world number one Scottie Scheffler was chunking a chip on 5. Now he’s bumping one in from the top of a bank, 50 yards out at the par-five 14th for eagle! You can’t keep a good Masters champion down! All of a sudden, having been struggling to find something, he’s one off the lead at -2! Sensational! He’s going round with Brooks Koepka, and after whipping a long iron into the green to ten feet - this hole is 616 yards long - the two-time winner rolls in for an eagle of his own! He’s suddenly -1, having picked up four strokes in the last four holes!
The now joint-leader MJ Daffue stops the rot with an up-and-down from a deep bunker to the side of the par-three 16th. He remains at -3. Meanwhile the 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed spurns a good chance to join the group one shot behind Daffue & Co. He clips a lovely wedge at the short 11th to ten feet, but can’t make the downhill right-to-left slider and remains at -1. Still, bereft of form for so long, Reed won’t be at all unhappy with the way things are going here.
Justin Thomas looked to be piecing his challenge back together an hour ago. Birdie at 1 saw the PGA champ return to level par. But after one step forward, bogeys at 2 and 4 have sent him a couple back. He’s +2, as yet unable to carry over the form that saw him come so close at last week’s Canadian Open to Brookline.
Birdie at 13 for Scottie Scheffler, and despite not bringing his best stuff yet, the world number one finds him just three off the pace at level par. Nerve-settling pars meanwhile for Adam Hadwin at 18 and 1, and he consolidates his position at -1. For all his travails this morning, the 34-year-old Canadian is still right in the mix.
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No we won’t. But we do know that Fitzpatrick can only send his third from wherever to 25 feet. He can’t make the saving putt, and that’s back-to-back bogeys for the Englishman. He’s -1. Daffue isn’t able to salvage his par either on 15, and he reacquaints himself with the other folk he started the day alongside.
-3: Daffue (15), Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
-2: Hardy (15*), Buckley, NeSmith, Harman, Wise
-1: Burns (13), Fitzpatrick (12*), Reed (9), Hadwin (9*), Rodgers, Morikawa, Piot, Rahm, Scott, Homa, Zalatoris, Hossler
MJ Daffue sends his sand shot high over the flag at 15, and 20 feet past the hole. He’ll need to make that if he’s to retain sole ownership of the lead. Meanwhile bother for Matt Fitzpatrick at 3. His drive disappears into the tall fescue down the right, and his hack out squirts left and into more deep fescue ... or maybe a bunker if he’s lucky. The camera doesn’t reveal the outcome. We’ll find out soon enough.
MJ Daffue, coming off that unnecessary bogey at 14, continues to struggle up 15. He sends his drive towards the gallery down the right, and dumps his second into a deep bunker to the right of the green. The pin’s over that way, too, so he’s shortsided and on a downslope. He’ll be doing extremely well to salvage his par from there. If he doesn’t, he’ll be back where he started the day ... or worse.
A disappointing three-putt bogey for Matt Fitzpatrick on 2. He slips out of a tie for second. Meanwhile back-to-back birdies for Brooks Koepka, at 11 and 12, and suddenly the two-time champion, unhappy with his 73 yesterday, is just five behind at +1.
-4: Daffue (14)
-3: Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
-2: Hardy (14*), Fitzpatrick (11*), Buckley, NeSmith, Harman, Wise
-1: Burns (12), Reed (9), Hadwin (8*), Bland (8*), Rodgers, Morikawa, Piot, Rahm, Scott, Homa, Zalatoris, Hossler
MJ Daffue pulls his par putt at 14 to the left, and that’s a bogey six on a hole he’d have been hoping to birdie. His shoulders slump. Just over an hour after being an inch or so away from a four-shot lead, his advantage has been cut to one. He’s -4. Meanwhile Sam Burns bounces back well from his double-bogey at 10 with birdie at 12, and he’s back up to -1.
Daffue’s brave second ends up just to the right of the green, albeit in deep rough. He decelerates through his chip, and his ball remains in the filth. He stabs his second attempt out, but the ball rolls six feet past, and he’ll have a tester to save his par. Speaking of saving par, that’s what Hadwin does on 17. He finds his drive, sends his second into a greenside bunker, and gets up and down bravely. That’s staunch work, just as everything was threatening to spiral out of control. The overnight leader remains -1.
Hadwin sends a big hook into trouble for the third time today, this time at 17. A chance that could have flown all the way out of bounds. Meanwhile some bother for the leader MJ Daffue, who sends his drive at 14 into a concession stand down the left. He’s entitled to a drop, but fancies the lie he’s got on a strip of carpet, and whips a 3-wood over the heads of some very entertained punters, with whom he exchanges some amusing patter. “I’m comin’ over your head, sir!” “We trust ya!”
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Another change to the weather forecast. According to Sky Sports, there are now thunderstorms expected around 1pm local time, which is 6pm in pounds sterling. Should that be the case, we might have problems getting everyone around by sundown ... but it’d be good news for the later starters nevertheless, softening the greens and making them a darn sight easier to hold. All speculation, of course, and it’s changing by the hour, so let’s just play it by lugs.
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The overnight leader Adam Hadwin continues to head in the wrong direction. His tee shot at the par-three 16th bounds into the thick surrounding rough. His wedge out is always destined to roll eight feet past, and he can’t make the saving putt coming back. No commitment to the stroke, which is always dying short and left. He’s -1.
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A double-bogey six at the extremely testing 10th for Sam Burns. The hole is currently playing tied second for difficulty today, so going from rough to more rough to bunker was never going to cut it. He drops back to level par. Also at level par, but heading in the right direction and piecing his round back together after a horror start, is Justin Thomas. Birdie at 1, his second in three holes, and suddenly there’s renewed spring in the PGA champion’s step.
The grandly monickered Adrien Dumont de Chassart sounds as though he should be wheelspinning along the French Riviera in a 1950s formula-one car made entirely from flammable metal, no helmet, fag on, en route to an evening at the casino. In fact he’s a 22-year-old amateur golfer from Belgium standing on the tee at the drivable par-four 5th. He bashes his tee shot onto the green. One bounce, then inches from acing with the second. But the hole-in-one albatross wasn’t meant to be. Shame; he’d have joined Chen Tze-chung, Shaun Micheel and Nick Watney as the only players to have made albatross at a US Open. Dumont de Chassart’s ball rolls through the green and into the fringe at the back, from where he makes a garden-variety par. The small margins.
It’s consecutive bogeys for Viktor Hovland. Norway’s finest is unlucky on 18, his approach just failing to get over the bunker guarding the front of the green and sticking under the lip. He does extremely well to smash out onto the green, attacking the embedded ball with a wide open face, but he can’t make the long par saver, and the two shots he picked up at 12 and 13 are snatched back by 17 and 18. He turns in level-par 35, and is back where he started at level par for the tournament.
Nick Hardy has played in three previous US Opens, missing two cuts and finishing the other in a tie for 52nd. The 26-year-old from Illinois will fancy improving significantly on that record from where he is right now. A 69 yesterday, and he’s just birdied 2 to move into a tie for seventh at -2, just three off MJ Daffue’s lead. A fourth birdie of the day meanwhile for Sam Burns, this time at 8, grabbing back the shot he dropped with that careless three-putt on 6. He’s -2 as well.
A mistake by the leader MJ Daffue on the tiny par-three 11th. He sends his tee shot into the rough over the back, and only just holds the green with his chip. The resulting bogey cuts his lead to just the two. Meanwhile at 16, Matt Fitzpatrick is the width of a dimple from making a right-to-left 20-foot downhill trickle for another birdie. He looks as confident as any on the greens this week ... and a hot putter is non-negotiable if you want to win a US Open.
-5: Daffue (11)
-3: Fitzpatrick (7*), Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
The wind is picking up a little bit. The early forecast of rain around 1pm local time is also being revised. We’re much less likely to see any now, which won’t please today’s second wave, who would have been hoping a few drops would soften up the greens. Instead, the wind will dry them out and make them even harder and faster. God speed, Rory, Collin, Jon, Xander, et al.
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A careless bogey for Viktor Hovland on 17. He lands his approach pin high, but gets so much backspin on the ball that it whistles off down the false front. Never the most confident with his wedge, he opts to putt back up onto the green, and rolls up well to six feet, but shoves the par putt to the right and he’s back to -1.
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MJ Daffue is this close to extending his lead to four at the difficult 10th. He whistles his second to six feet and tickles the downhill birdie putt towards the cup. But it breaks to the right on the last turn and misses by millimetres. He stays at -6, three clear of a group that now includes Matt Fitzpatrick, who sends a bomb of a drive down 15, then wedges to four feet to set up his second birdie of the day. Birdie too for Justin Thomas at 17 to get back to +1.
-6: Daffue (10)
-3: Fitzpatrick (6*), Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
The travails of the PGA champ Justin Thomas continue. Bogey at 14, then a seriously underhit ten-foot birdie effort at 16. Just a par and his shoulders slump. He’s +2 overall. As is the 2012 champion Webb Simpson, who has a glum look upon departing the par-five 14th with a triple-bogey eight. He was in a greenside bunker in two.
A couple of fine par saves. Viktor Hovland trundles a long birdie putt 15 feet past on 15, but rolls in the one coming back. He stays at -2. Meanwhile the leader MJ Daffue, having found the rough from the tee, powers up to the front of the green, hits a clumsy chip ten feet past, but steers in the delicate downhill right-to-left swinger to remain three clear of the peloton at -6!
A snap hook from the 12th tee ends up costing the overnight leader Adam Hadwin another shot. Two bogeys in the first three holes for the 34-year-old Canadian, and it could so easily have been three from three. He’s -2. Meanwhile a careless three-putt bogey for Sam Burns on 6, and he slips back to -1.
-6: Daffue (8)
-3: Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
-2: Hovland (5*), Fitzpatrick (4*), Hadwin (3*), Buckley, NeSmith, Harman, Wise
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Succour For All with world number one and Masters champion Scottie Scheffler. He completely chunks a chip at the short par-four 5th. A total lack of commitment, the divot going further forward than the ball, which then rolls back past Scheffler’s feet anyway. We’ve all been there all right, and Scheffler’s amateur aberration costs him a shot. He slips to +1.
MJ Daffue sends a hot second into the thick rough at the back of the par-five 8th. That leaves a tricky downhill pitch, which he sends way past the hole, his ball perhaps one revolution away from toppling off the false front and many yards down the fairway. It stops just in time. Two careful putts, and he escapes with par.
Sam Burns sends his drive at the short par-four 5th into thick fescue up a bank to the right of the green. He’s got a bunker to navigate as well, but plenty of green to play with. He whips a high lob to five feet, which is nothing short of miraculous from where he was, then calmly strokes the birdie putt into the centre of the cup. His third bird of the day, and he suddenly becomes a serious part of the conversation at -2.
... so perhaps Adam Hadwin’s street-fighting par on 10 was the harbinger of a scrappy day. He sends his tee shot at the short 11th into the heart of the green, but rolls an excitable downhill 20-footer six feet past, and can’t make the one coming back. All of a sudden, debutant MJ Daffue has a three-stroke lead at the US Open!
-6: Daffue (7)
-3: Hadwin (2*), Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
-2: Hovland (4*), Fitzpatrick (3*), D Johnson (3*), Buckley, NeSmith, Harman, Wise
Tell you who is full of confidence: MJ Daffue, that’s who! The 33-year-old South African, playing in his first major championship, comes up short of 7, his ball rolling back down the false front. But he putts anyway and sends a right-to-left monster into the cup! He sticks a triumphant finger in the sky, then clenches his fist, and you’d have got good odds on this state of affairs yesterday morning!
-6: Daffue (7)
-4: Hadwin (1*)
-3: Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
The overnight leader Adam Hadwin is out and about. A drive down the middle of 10. Then an approach pulled into awkward greenside sand. Suddenly a JT-style blowout looks a possibility. But with a downhill lie in the bunker and not much green to work with, he splashes to ten feet, about the best he could do, then salvages par with a right-to-left sliding putt. Harbinger of a scrappy day or the confidence-boosting foundation for another low round? Let’s see.
Another birdie, this time in more conventional style, for Viktor Hovland. The green found in regulation at 13, a 15-footer trundled in. He’s -2 for his round and the championship. Also -2: Matt Fitzpatrick, who bounces back from the careless dropped shot at 11 by sending his second at 12 to three feet and sealing the deal.
The PGA champion Justin Thomas got off to an awful start this morning. From the centre of 10, he pulled his approach into the thick rough and ended up running up a double-bogey six. Then he followed that up with bogey at 11. Suddenly one of the pre-tournament favourites had crashed down to +2. But a big break on 13 could have arrested that downward momentum. He overhits a long birdie putt, but the ball slams into the back of the cup, thinks about pinging away, but slam dunks. Lucky he had that line plumb, because otherwise he was facing a ten footer coming back. Birdie out of nowhere, and he’s back to +1.
A couple of long birdie putts here. Brooks Koepka rakes a huge left-to-right swinger from the front of 3, the two-time winner rising to +2, while Shane Lowry whistles one in from the fringe of 10. He’s +1. And from long to big: MJ Daffue finds greenside sand at the drivable par-four 5th, splashes out to four feet, and makes it consecutive birdies. He’s the new sole leader of the US Open! Finally a short one missed by Matt Fitzpatrick on 11, and he slips back to -1.
-5: Daffue (5)
-4: Hadwin
-3: Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
-2: Buckley, NeSmith, Harman, Wise, Fitzpatrick, Johnson (2*), Rose (1)
Sam Burns is a three-time winner on the PGA Tour this season, and in terms of recent form alone, might be the next cab on the rank to break his major duck. The 25-year-old from Louisiana opens today with birdie, then adds another after nearly acing the par-three 2nd. He’s nicely placed at -1. Viktor Hovland may have something to say about that, though, and the Norwegian chips in from thick rough at the side of 12 to join Burns at -1 after yesterday’s 70.
Adam Hadwin is only playing this week as an alternate, having come through qualifying. He’s benefitting from Paul Casey’s withdrawal. Four of the other five first-round leaders are also qualifiers, the exception being Rory McIlroy. Very strange. Very refreshing. Might that, however, speak to their chances of staying the course over four days? Well, maybe, except MJ Daffue has just birdied 4 to join Hadwin in the lead, and Brookline has been known to deliver the odd surprise before, Francis Ouimet, all that, so you never know!
-4: Daffue (4), Hadwin
-3: Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen
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Adam Hadwin leads after his opening round of 66 … but the likes of Rory McIlroy, Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose, Dustin Johnson, Collin Morikawa, Adam Scott, Will Zalatoris, Justin Thomas, Gary Woodland and defending champ Jon Rahm are in hot pursuit. Here’s how the top of the leaderboard looks …
-4: Hadwin
-3: Tarren, Lingmerth, McIlroy, Dahmen, Daffue
-2: Buckley, NeSmith, Harman, Wise, Fitzpatrick, Johnson, Rose
-1: Rodgers, Morikawa, Piot, Rahm, Scott, Homa, Zalatoris, Hossler, Hardy, Thomas, Woodland, Kokrak
… and here’s when everyone’s teeing off. Let’s go, then. It’s on!
Starting at hole 1:
11:45 Sean Crocker, Jediah Morgan (Aus), Taylor Montgomery
11:56 M. J. Daffue (Rsa), (a) Maxwell Moldovan, Yannik Paul (Ger)
12:07 Adria Arnaus (Spa), Talor Gooch, Tom Hoge
12:18 Sergio Garcia (Spa), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Kevin Na
12:29 Patton Kizzire, Sam Burns, Thomas Pieters (Bel)
12:40 Brooks Koepka, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Smith (Aus)
12:51 Corey Conners (Can), (a) Austin Greaser, Luke List
13:02 Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Rose (Eng), Gary Woodland
13:13 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Kyoung-Hoon Lee (Kor), Patrick Reed
13:24 Harris English, Lucas Herbert (Aus), Jason Kokrak
13:35 (a) Ben Lorenz, Davis Shore, Samuel Stevens
13:46 (a) Adrien Dumont (Bel), Daijiro Izumida (Jpn), Sebastian Soederberg (Swe)
13:57 Brady Calkins, Ryan Gerard, Jesse Mueller
17:30 Hayden Buckley, Fran Quinn, Callum Tarren (Eng)
17:41 (a) Sam Bennett, Kurt Kitayama, Denny McCarthy
17:52 Wil Besseling (Ned), Wyndham Clark, Brandon Matthews
18:03 Si Woo Kim (Kor), Sepp Straka (Aut), David Lingmerth (Swe)
18:14 Victor Perez (Fra), Davis Riley, Scott Stallings
18:25 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Xander Schauffele
18:36 Brian Harman, Russell Henley, Kevin Kisner
18:47 Keegan Bradley, Marc Leishman (Aus), Aaron Wise
18:58 Stewart Cink, Francesco Molinari (Ita), (a) Laird Shepherd (Eng)
19:09 Marcel Schneider (Ger), Joseph Bramlett, Chan Kim
19:20 Joel Dahmen, Lanto Griffin, Jinichiro Kozuma (Jpn)
19:31 (a) Fred Biondi (Bra), Harry Hall (Eng), Chris Gotterup
19:42 Luke Gannon, Chris Naegel, Andrew Beckler
Starting at hole 10:
11:45 Kevin Chappell, Andrew Novak, Chase Seiffert
11:56 Thorbjoern Olesen (Den), Brian Stuard, Nick Hardy
12:07 Sam Horsfield (Eng), Shaun Norris (Rsa), Cameron Tringale
12:18 Sung Jae Im (Kor), Guillermo Mito Pereira (Chi), Erik van Rooyen (Rsa)
12:29 Tony Finau, Viktor Hovland (Nor), Justin Thomas
12:40 Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Min-Woo Lee (Aus), Seamus Power (Irl)
12:51 Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Dustin Johnson, Webb Simpson
13:02 Shane Lowry (Irl), Phil Mickelson, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa)
13:13 Danny Lee (Nzl), (a) Keita Nakajima (Jpn), Nick Taylor (Can)
13:24 (a) Nick Dunlap, Jim Furyk, Adam Hadwin (Can)
13:35 Richard Bland (Eng), Ryan Fox (Nzl), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn)
13:46 Jonas Blixt (Swe), Bo Hoag, Todd Sinnott (Aus)
13:57 Sean Jacklin (Sco), (a) Charles Reiter, Isaiah Salinda
17:30 Matt McCarty, Michael Thorbjornsen (a), Erik Barnes
17:41 Matthew NeSmith, Patrick Rodgers, Travis Vick (a)
17:52 Troy Merritt, William Mouw (a), Andrew Putnam
18:03 Collin Morikawa, James Piot, Jon Rahm (Spa)
18:14 Max Homa, Adam Scott (Aus), Jordan Spieth
18:25 Daniel Berger, Patrick Cantlay, Billy Horschel
18:36 Sebastian Munoz (Col), Alexander Noren (Swe), Harold Varner III
18:47 Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Cameron Young, Will Zalatoris
18:58 (a) Stewart Hagestad, Grayson Murray, Adam Schenk
19:09 Branden Grace (Rsa), Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Guido Migliozzi (Ita)
19:20 Beau Hossler, Satoshi Kodaira (Jpn), Kalle Samooja (Fin)
19:31 Richard Mansell (Eng), Roger Sloan (Can), Tomoyasu Sugiyama (Jpn)
19:42 Keith Greene, Benjamin Silverman (Can), (a) Caleb Manuel
