When a picture was shared on social media earlier this week of a golf ball dropping into the penal rough and out of sight at Los Angles Country Club, lots of people, players included, started to predict scoring chaos at the US Open – but how wrong they all were.
Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele set a new record for the lowest round in US Open history to lead after a day of scintillating scoring on the West Coast. The American pair were among the early starters and took advantage of the benign conditions to shoot eight-under 62s, remarkably within 20 minutes of each other.
