U.S. Open

SUMMARY: The US Open is only on Fox Sports. Unless you're already a Foxtel iQ customer with the Sports HD pack, your best option is to watch live on Kayo Sports ...

He has opted to rest his recovering leg and will now have been absent from half the US Opens played in the last decade. That means you could watch the entire US Open for free. Also, with Foxtel Now, you can't subscribe just to the Sports Pack. SplitView lets you watch up to 4 sports at once on the same screen. Subscriptions to Kayo start from $25 a month and that lets you watch on 1 device at a time. This year's tournament is again being broadcast by Fox Sports. In fact, all 4 golf majors are broadcast by it.

Seven Australians and Kiwis Danny Lee and Ryan Fox are in the field for the 2022 US Open Championship at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, a course ...

Major wins: 0 Major wins: 0 Major wins: 0 “I feel like when the ball’s bouncing that’s when we come to the top. “It also had a lot of blind tee shots. I do remember that.

The 122nd U.S. Open gets underway Thursday with the national championship taking place at one of the oldest golf courses in the United States.

The major championship record is poor, but take out his missed cuts at the PGA Championship and The Players Championship, and Cantlay has unbelievable this year. McIlroy has top 10s in three of his last four majors and three straight U.S. Opens. The fact that he hasn't captured one of these coveted championships since 2014 is obscene given some of the low rounds he's shot, but he finally seems to be back to form. This is the best Rory has played entering a major in quite a while, and he's even coming off a title defense at the RBC Canadian Open. McIlroy also seems to feel like he has the game of golf on his back given his staunch support of the PGA Tour and the traditions of the game. If he plays his game, he'll be in the mix, and we've already seen him this season hang with the big dogs with wins at The Players Championship and the Sentry Open plus top-five finishes at the Masters and the RSM Classic. Brookline is going to demand precisely what Smith can bring: a killer short game for its lightning-quick greens and precision off the tees for the numerous blind shots golfers will be making this week. J.T. is one of the three best iron players on the planet, and his hot putter has translated to wins and near wins for the last two months. He's playing the best golf of his career and has paired an ever-present confidence that nobody in the world is better than him with a wisdom that can only be attained with age and experience. The Olympian has pulled out of the 122nd U.S. Open citing health concerns. Four days of major championship golf on a menacing course in a terrific city. Behind them are Adam Scott, Max Homa and a 75% Jordan Spieth. For those of you not in the know, the three-time major winner is experiencing some tummy issues -- pro move not wearing white pants. Those two legends of the game make way for new ones as world No. 3 Rory McIlroy begin his quest for major No. 5 in the early hours of the first round. For all the nonsense that's happened this week, what better Day 1 story could there be than a lifelong journeyman whose son is serving as caddie leading after the first 18 holes?

Instead, the golfing world will watch with great fascination those golfers — such as Phil Mickelson — who have defected from the PGA Tour and signed with the ...

5-7 p.m. 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. 1:25 p.m. 1:14 p.m. 1:03 p.m. 12:52 p.m. 12:41 p.m. 12:30 p.m. Those storylines will take precedent for much of the early rounds, and potentially longer if any defectors stay in contention late into the tournament. (Though some golfers, such as 2016 U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson, have special exemption for future events). Despite the PGA Tour's suspension of said golfers, each of the four majors — the other three being the Masters, PGA Championship and British Open — have autonomy in deciding who qualifies for their respective events. For instance, Rory McIlroy — winner of last week's RBC Canadian Open — took a shot at LIV head man Greg Norman while expressing disappointment in Mickelson, one of the tour's biggest names.

The Sporting News is tracking the latest scoring updates from the U.S. Open in 2022. Here's who is atop the leaderboard as action gets underway on Thursday.

5-7 p.m. 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. 12:41 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 1:14 p.m. 12:52 p.m. 12:41 p.m. 12:30 p.m. Another option is fuboTV, which will stream coverage that airs on NBC and USA Network. The U.S. Open can be streamed using a few different options. Elsewhere, World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will look to push Rahm and win his second major of the season. The Saudi-backed start-up held its first event last weekend and saw 2011 Masters champion Charl Schwartzel win it and take home the $4 million grand prize.

U.S. Open 2022 live updates: The latest news and analysis from our writers at the 122nd U.S. Open at Brookline.

6:48 a.m.: The action is officially underway at The Country Club! Michael Thorbjornsen, a 20-year-old amateur from Massachusetts teeing it up at Brookline (sound familiar?) had the honor of hitting the first tee shot off the first tee. What a great thrill for the 58-year-old. 8:03 a.m.: Hideki Matusyama sticks his tee shot at the par-3 11th hole, which is playing as the easiest hole on the course thus far, to grab a share of the lead. A tough early bogey from Spieth ... and just by the eye test, he doesn't look 100 percent post-stomach bug. Again, just like Spieth, people were down on Morikawa on the eve of the U.S. Open because he admitted to some reporters he was having trouble hitting a fade. Hopefully the Mighty Quinn's friends and family screenshotted that shot of the leaderboard while he was up there. And speaking of struggles, Hideki just double bogeyed the par-4 12th hole after that birdie at 11. 8:30 a.m.: Russell Henley is the first player to 2-under, birdieing the 10th and 12th holes early in his round. 9:14 p.m.: Maybe not the biggest name but qualifier Harry Hall with a beautiful shot on the par 3 11th just north of the hole. 8:40 a.m.: Henley has company at the top, as Collin Morikawa just rolled another nice birdie putt in at the fifth hole. Adam Scott doesn't put enough on it and the ball will find its way to the bottom of the steep eighth incline. Of course, the beauty of a U.S. Open are the never-ending storylines that its competitors present itself.

I'm struggling with how this is good for the game,” Mike Whan said of the Saudi-backed rival series that has lured aging stars like Phil Mickelson and ...

Over the years, Augusta National has honored exceedingly traditional values and been reluctant to change. When the PGA Tour retaliated last week by suspending 17 players who had aligned with LIV Golf, the looming question was whether the major championships’ chieftains from Augusta National Golf Club (the Masters), the United States Golf Association (the U.S. Open), the R&A (the British Open) and the PGA of America (the P.G.A. Championship) would choose a side. I think that golf’s in a good place right now.” Importantly, he instead suggested that it was not good for golf. “We have to see what this becomes — if this is an exhibition or tour?” he said. He continued: “I’ve heard that this is good for the game. It got our attention for this championship.” At least from my outside view right now, it looks like it’s good for a few folks playing the game, but I’m struggling with how this is good for the game.” But the breakaway circuit has surprisingly lured some leading players, most of whom had professed their loyalty to the United States-based PGA Tour just weeks, or days, earlier. “I could.” Since they have long been allied with the recognized tours in the United States and Europe, would they snub the alternative LIV Golf Invitational series and exclude its players from their events? They are overseen by four distinct entities sometimes described as the four families of golf (insert organized crime joke here).

It is US Open week, but through three days at The Country Club the dominant storyline has nothing to do with America's national championship.

“I’ve heard that this is good for the game. “And as soon as we start to move off that percentage by a meaningful amount, I think it changes the US Open a great degree.” That those who defected to the Saudi circuit were allowed to play in this event was somewhat of a controversial decision in itself, one USGA chief executive Mike Whan addressed.

Defending champion Jon Rahm is one of the favorites, along with McIlroy, PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas and Masters winner Scottie Scheffler. As of 7:55 ...

Plenty of PGA mainstays are also in Boston, led by Rory McIlroy, the 2011 U.S. Open champ, who has been outspoken in opposing LIV Golf. This time, he’s doing it with Saudi money. Men’s golf remains at the center of the sporting universe this week, as the world’s top players converge on the Country Club in Brookline, Mass. for the 122nd U.S. Open. After a tumultuous stretch that’s seen multiple star players defect from the PGA Tour in favor of the lucrative, Saudi-backed LIV Golf International Series, the USGA can only hope that the competition now seizes the spotlight.

Live leaderboard (as of 8:55 a.m. ET)1 Collin Morikawa -2 (5)1 Russell Henley -2 (4)Four golfers tied at -1The 2022 U.S. Open begins Thursday from The ...

That's going to play as basically a 100-yard shot for the pros, I think, and that's just ... *chef's kiss.* He has a solo second and a T8 at the first two major tournaments this year, and this course is a really nice setup for him. The 2022 U.S. Open will be available via streaming on Peacock with exclusive windows as well as featured groups. In what has been somewhat of a downturn of a season after last year’s best-in-class form, this is the perfect opportunity for Rahm to get back on track. He has bogeyed Nos. 1, 3 and now 4, with a par at No. 2. None of this is secret anymore — hell, two decades have passed — but in Boston, old habits die hard, and when one guy from the neighborhood tells a story about another guy from the neighborhood, it’s best not to blab. Curtis Strange won the last U.S. Open at The Country Club, which was held in 1988. Like Southern Hills, designer Gil Hanse has been working with The Country Club to prepare for this U.S. Open. The ball rams into the jar and Leonard takes off running. “See over there,” the caddie says, pointing to a spot on the green. Those are the stories in the annals. A Rory or JT or Speith or Rahm. I think they all have a good chance.

The Players champion and Masters nearly man Cam Smith. The FedEx champ Patrick Cantlay. Sam Burns, a three-time winner on Tour this season. The in-form Matthew ...

Yes, yes, the LIV Tour has been hanging around the run-up to the 122nd US Open at Brookline like a bad smell. The 33-year-old from Georgia has yet to finish in the top ten, but he did tie for low amateur in 2010 at Pebble Beach, and enjoyed his best result last year at Torrey Pines with a tie for 13th. But it’s hosted three previous US Opens, won by Curtis Strange in 1988, Julius Boros in 1963, and most famously of all, the amateur Francis Ouimet in 1913. But let’s not allow it to linger, for none of the players involved with the breakaway tour are considered particularly likely winners of the USGA’s flagship event. He taps in for a second birdie and becomes the first man to reach -2. Henley is quickly joined at the top by Collin Morikawa. The reigning Open champion could be very dangerous here this week, with approach play at a premium to Brookline’s often small and tightly guarded greens. The second miss was a particular shame, as he’d sent a delightful short iron into 4, using the right-to-left slope of the green to gather his ball to four feet. Never the most accurate from the tee, he’s yet to hit one, and as a result he’s dropped shots at 1, 3 and 4. He’ll need all his scrambling genius this week, and he demonstrates that, too, getting up and down from sand at the short par-four 5th to haul himself back to +2. Spieth’s combined score for last four opening rounds at the US Open is +18. He’ll need to go some to put a dent into that surprisingly awful record today. Well, that’s not quite accurate: a missed cut at the 2015 US Open at Chambers Bay, and that’s it for the 28-year-old South Carolinian. But he’s now a joint leader of this one. Not so the 2021 Masters champ Matsuyama, who followed birdie at 11 with a three-putt double bogey at 12. McIlroy’s paired with Xander Schauffele and Hideki Matsuyama. Schauffele – who has never finished lower than seventh in his five US Open appearances – has matched Rory shot for shot so far.

Or, at least, it will stall until 1:47 p.m., when Phil Mickelson arrives on the first tee. Mickelson, the face of LIV Golf, is still searching for that one ...

#USOpen pic.twitter.com/SPHHNf0VkG June 16, 2022 But forgive them if they are a bit distracted. Something else is on their minds -- about 7.2 miles down the road. #USOpen pic.twitter.com/bvMv8siUG0 June 16, 2022 Make the putt. Use the wind to fade it. #USOpen pic.twitter.com/P1phSsip4E June 16, 2022 Mickelson, the face of LIV Golf, is still searching for that one missing piece of his Grand Slam résumé -- a U.S. Open win. That's a bounce-back birdie for @JordanSpieth. #USOpen pic.twitter.com/sd9LQbcbAi June 16, 2022 Good luck 💪— LIV Golf (@LIVGolfInv) #LIVGolf pic.twitter.com/4hWCHPYOmk June 16, 2022 BROOKLINE, Mass. -- Perhaps the talk of LIV Golf vs. the PGA Tour will subside for a few days, with the start of the U.S. Open at The Country Club officially here.

Defending champion Jon Rahm found himself encroaching on NBC after he pulled his tee shot on No. 18 hard left and just under the fence that surrounds the tower ...

Adam Scott says he will have to adopt a "gladiator's do or die mentality" at the US Open if he wants to win an elusive second Major after admitting his ...

If I can take myself to that level of focus, then I know I have the physical tools to win a Major again.” At this point, I don’t have 84 more Majors. I need take myself to a place where I play like it’s my last ever tournament. Right from the start of my career, I had some good guidance with the physical training aspect and injury prevention.” “It’s one of those things, if you look deep enough through the stats, you can find stuff,” Scott said. But Scott’s only Major win to date was his historic 2013 Masters win at Augusta National. When asked, Scott’s Majors streak appeared to remind him of his strike rate. Scott’s incredible longevity is evident in the fact he will tee up in his 84th consecutive Major at the US Open, the longest streak of any active male player.

McIlroy's tee shot sailed right and buried in thick rough just outside the right lip of a fairway bunker. McIlroy was forced to take a whack at it while ...

Quite the save to keep his momentum and worthy of a fist pump. Apparently, getting his anger out did the trick because McIlroy exploded his next shot 15 feet past the hole and sank the par putt. McIlroy was forced to take a whack at it while standing in the bunker.

U.S. Open 2022: Rory McIlroy made a crucial, momentum-saving par at the par-4 fifth hole that he'll look back very fondly if he goes on to contend.

If the Northern Irishman goes onto contend at this U.S. Open, we will undoubtedly look back at this moment as one that saved his tournament. Turns out, that expletive paled in comparison to his reaction that would ensue. He let out an expletive when he arrived to find his lie.

The four-time Major winner showed his frustrations on day one at the US Open.

He was two-under-par at the time after 13 holes, having made a superb start to the US Open. Rory's tee shot on the drivable par-4 4th hole nestled in the thick rough on the edge of a bunker and all he could do was duff it out into the next one. He won his maiden Major title at the 2011 US Open and has had a great year in the Majors so far with a 2nd at The Masters, his best ever finish at Augusta National, and an 8th place finish at the PGA Championship. He currently ranks 3rd in the world.

Defending champion Jon Rahm, four-time major winner Rory McIlroy, top-ranked Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and two-time major winners Justin Thomas and ...

“It becomes a distraction and you don’t want to be focused on this or that. A field of 156 will compete at the same club where 20-year-old hometown hero Francis Ouimet became the first amateur to win the US Open back in 1913. As a result, US stars Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Patrick Reed and Bryson DeChambeau are among the LIV Golf rebels teeing off in a unique sub-plot to the quest for a major title -- the first LIV-PGA showdown.

Rory McIlroy shot an opening-round 3-under 67 at the U.S. Open on Thursday, saying he is not motivated by the threat of the LIV Golf Invitational Series but ...

"Again, some of these reactions that maybe you saw out there today, whether it be hitting the sand on 5 or the club throw on 9, you just have to be so precise and so exact at this golf tournament, maybe compared to some others," McIlroy said. It was the 21st victory of his career, which moved him past Norman in career wins. He pushed his approach shot to the right of the green and threw his club in frustration. But, yeah, you're going to encounter things this week that you don't usually come across the other weeks of the year, and you just have to try to accept them as best you can." After making birdies on Nos. 7 and 8 to move to 4-under, McIlroy lost his cool again on the par-4 ninth, his final hole. "I'm just being me. "I gave the sand a couple of whacks because I'd already messed it up, so it wasn't like it was much more work for [caddie] Harry [Diamond]," McIlroy said. The margins are just so fine in this tournament, and I think you can sort of see that out there with some of the reactions." "You're going to encounter things at a U.S. Open, whether they be lies or stuff like that, that you just don't really encounter any other week," McIlroy said. It was an eventful opening round for McIlroy at the golf course outside Boston. He started on the back nine and carded a bogey-free, 2-under 33. It's certainly a different mindset when you get off to a good start, and yeah, I've just got to keep it going." With an opening-round 3-under 67, McIlroy put himself in great position to do just that.

Rory McIlroy signed for a three-under-par 67 to share the clubhouse lead on the first day of the US Open at Brookline.

“They were like a hole or hole and a half behind the group in front of them. Luckily there was somebody in Canada who went to the airport and gave the airport staff a little kick, and they arrived on Sunday at 2pm. “The margins are just so fine in this tournament and I think you can see that out there with some of the reactions.” On day one at the Country Club there were flashes of McIlroy brilliance and flashes of McIlroy frustration. “You feel like you’re right in the tournament from the start of the week, which is nice,” said the four-time major winner. There is precious little that could switch the discussion around golf from matters of Saudi Arabia, a rebel tour and the resulting grisly civil war.

Instead, the golfing world will watch with great fascination those golfers — such as Phil Mickelson — who have defected from the PGA Tour and signed with the ...

5-7 p.m. 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. 1:14 p.m. 1:03 p.m. 12:52 p.m. 12:41 p.m. 12:30 p.m. FuboTV, which offers a free trial, is a streaming option as well. Those storylines will take precedent for much of the early rounds, and potentially longer if any defectors stay in contention late into the tournament. (Though some golfers, such as 2016 U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson, have special exemption for future events). Despite the PGA Tour's suspension of said golfers, each of the four majors — the other three being the Masters, PGA Championship and British Open — have autonomy in deciding who qualifies for their respective events. For instance, Rory McIlroy — winner of last week's RBC Canadian Open — took a shot at LIV head man Greg Norman while expressing disappointment in Mickelson, one of the tour's biggest names.

At the third major of the year, the hottest fashioned trend is the bold-patterned shirt. There are also few Massachusetts-themed accents.

Brooks Koepka, and other Nike-sponsored players, honored that with the crustacean on his shoes. At the third major of the year, the hottest trend is the bold-patterned shirt. It's a big sports weekend in the Boston area. Rory McIlroy finished his round with a share of the lead while rocking a floral print shirt. That includes Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson. Scottie Scheffler is trying to become the seventh different player to win the Masters and U.S. Open in the same calendar year. The 2022 U.S. Open is underway at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Reigning champ Jon Rahm is trying to defend his title.

Rory McIlroy shares the early lead at the US Open but is adamant breaking an almost eight-year major drought is his main motivation in Massachusetts.

“After the free relief, I had 135 yards to the pin, in an area where the rough wasn’t that thick. “Off the tee I was comfortable. I was past all the trees. I recognised the two kids that were running the opposite way with a smile on their face,” a laughing Rahm told reporters. “I’m going into tomorrow with the mindset of let’s keep it going, rather than where is the cut line. Cameron Smith, Lucas Herbert, Min Woo Lee and Todd Sinnott are still on the course while Jed Morgan (12-over) had a major debut round to forget.

'Pretty sure I know who it was': Defending champ's ball stolen by 'laughing' kids at US Open.

I just saw a lot of them get close and not go in, and to hit two wayward drives in the last two holes and somehow end up with two birdie putts and making the last one — it’s more the fact of making putt to break par on the first round of the U.S. Open. It’s quite a big deal.” I was past all the trees. I recognised the two kids that were running the opposite way with a smile on their face.” I don’t think they expected anybody to hit it there or be around there, so I was able to drop it in an area that was a little downgrain, and I wasn’t in jeopardy of carrying the bunker. Off the tee I was comfortable. … After the free relief, I had 135 yards to the pin, in an area where the rough wasn’t that thick.

While on the 18th hole at The Country Club, the Spanish golfer saw his tee shot sailing left with the ball landing under the TV tower. As he began heading over ...

I am 100% sure I saw the two kids that stole it." "I recognized the two kids that were running the opposite way with a smile on their face. As he began heading over to the area, Rahm saw two youngsters pick up the ball and run away with it.

Veteran Adam Scott is the leading Australian after a typically gruelling first round at the U.S. Open in Massachusetts, the Queenslander sharing 14th with ...

10 Jun 2022 14 Jun 2022 17 Jun 2022 13 Jun 2022 17 Jun 2022 Two weeks after his sister Minjee won the U.S. Women's Open, Min Woo Lee was solidly plugging away at even through 14 holes before a disastrous run.

“One (round) down, three to go,” Scott told Australian Golf Digest after a one-under-par 69, sounding like Mark Wahlberg's portrayal of Boston boxer Ward in the ...

I felt I was grinding and I was patient. At the par-5 eighth, Scott smoked a drive and hit his second shot so flush he let off a pronounced club twirl, but the ball caught the front edge of the green and rolled 60 yards back down the hilly fairway. For his delicate wedge shot next, Scott caught it slightly heavy and it again rolled back down the hill, even farther away from the hole. Scott, 42 next month, knows it will be as difficult as a prize fight to stay in contention at the US Open in Boston. But for now, he’s in the mix. “It could have been three over par and it could have been three under par,” Scott said. The course has plenty of blind tee shots and approach shots, as well as false fronts, tricky greens and deep, cavernous bunkers.

Adam Scott's 84th consecutive major championship is off to a strong start, the Queenslander just three back after a round of one-under 69 at the US Open at ...

I did a pretty good job of that today,” said the 2013 Masters champion. I feel really comfortable, so maybe that’ll help keep my mind where it needs to be.” He hit his approach shot to the rough back-left of the green and then moved the ball just three yards in his first attempt to extricate it from the long grass. Two over through 11 holes after starting his championship from the 10th tee, Leishman rolled in a 20-footer for birdie at the par-4 third and added two more at six and eight to end the day square with the card. But I feel really good about where my game is. Adam Scott’s 84th consecutive major championship is off to a strong start, the Queenslander just three back after a round of one-under 69 at the US Open at The Country Club in Brookline.

McIlroy shot a 67 and a share of the lead with qualifiers Joel Dahmen, David Lingmerth and Callum Tarren bu...

Lingmerth was in the same qualifier and had to play 36 holes and then some because of a 5-for-1 playoff for the final spot. But now it's time for golf, and there a vibe of relief that focus could turn to a US Open that first came to Brookline more than a century ago. He couldn't save par on that one and had to accept a 67 — not a bad start, and no apologies for his few outbursts of emotion. For McIlroy, it was his second straight major — and third time in his last four US Opens — he opened with a score better than par. Collin Morikawa, trying to win a major for the third straight year, thought he might be able to take it deep — at least by US Open standards — when he birdied the ninth hole to reach 3-under. Even with a good start, and coming off a victory last week in the Canadian Open, it doesn't figure to be easy.

Amongst many, one of the great traditions at the U.S. Open is that the men who shoot some of the lowest scores on day one are often enough household names.

So this is the second U.S. Open I've played in – and second time no golf clubs." So this is the second U.S. Open I've played in – and second time no golf clubs. “I picked a club that was going to fly to the middle of the putting surface,” he explained. Cox did go on to finish a respectable T-3 in 1934, but for the rest of our unlikely heroes, the remainder of their weeks in the national championship sun soon enough clouded over to varying degrees. Luckily, somebody I know in Canada went to the airport and gave the airport staff a little kick. The clubs arrived on Wednesday and Tarren left on Friday, back to the obscurity he has largely enjoyed since. Was in perfect position to watch the last four holes and the play-off.” “And when they shut the door it crushed the charger and bent the door. He’s had to be, at least in the U.S. Open. Three years ago he flew from Atlanta to San Francisco, from where his connection to Monterey was scheduled to leave Sunday evening. He also made it through qualifying in 2019, when he missed the cut at Pebble Beach by four shots after rounds of 73 and 75. Under “personal” in his PGA Tour bio it reads: “Worked at the Open Championship that Tom Watson almost won. In 17 starts, the man from Darlington in the north-east of England has missed the halfway cut six times.

A wild turkey, gambling taunts and a four-putt: Inside Mickelson's 18 holes from hell at US Open.

Mickelson hit a lousy approach on the first hole, leaving his ball under a chair. Mickelson said his four-month exile from the game afforded him time to spend with his wife Amy, and to continue therapy to address “some of the deficiencies that I have,” including a long-term gambling problem. As for the tournament, Mickelson called the course at The Country Club — where he’d helped the U.S. rally to topple the European team in the 1999 Ryder Cup — “a brutal test of golf.” Two-hundred million!” Mickelson made a double-bogey six on his way to an 8-over 78, leaving him behind 13 amateurs and near the very bottom of the 156-man field. A couple of fans shouted gambling references at him in the middle of his round, but they were tame.

Here are the things that caught our eye—and caught us off guard—during the first round of the 2022 U.S. Open.

I recognized the two kids that were running the opposite way with a smile on their face," Rahm said laughing. Still, this is a guy who has lost to a total of four players over his past four U.S. Opens. And yet he got beaten by more than half the field on Thursday. Despite the bizarre situation, Rahm responded by making birdie to shoot 69 and put himself in great shape to defend his title. Oosthuizen, who finished T-2, solo second and T-3 in the final three majors of 2021, withdrew at this year’s Masters before finishing T-60 at the PGA, and now he’ll need a miracle to make the cut after opening with 77. You could say that the 39-year-old South African isn't LIVing at the top of major leaderboards anymore. The winner of the 2015 Memorial, Lingmerth has fallen to No. 592 in the Official World Golf Ranking. But he certainly didn’t play like that during a bogey-free 67. And Rahm thinks he knows who the culprits are. Look, the guy’s a PGA Tour winner and he finished T-9 at the Players Championship earlier this year. And that came 11 years ago at Congressional. But there he was on Thursday going out in a scorching four-under-par 31 and finishing at that number to take a one-stroke lead after 18 holes. Remember when this guy was seemingly in the hunt at every major last year? The six-time major champ struggled from start to finish shooting an eight-over-par 78 that included a four-putt from 16 feet on No. 6. BROOKLINE, Mass. — Day 1 at the U.S. Open is in the books, and there were plenty of things that left us scratching our heads.

BROOKLINE, Mass. -- Six-time major champion Phil Mickelson said one of the reasons he prefers the new LIV Golf Invitational Series is because of its 54-hole ...

Mickelson was playing in the U.S. Open after being indefinitely suspended by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan a week ago. Mickelson has been runner-up at the U.S. Open a record six times. "I really enjoyed the test; I think it's just a spectacular golf course," Mickelson told reporters in the players' parking lot after the round. But then Mickelson yanked his tee shot into the thick rough on the right side on No. 12, needed two shots to get back to the fairway and carded a double-bogey 6 to drop to 7 over. Mickelson was one of 17 tour players who competed in the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series event in London without a conflicting-event release. Playing for the first time in the U.S. since missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open in late January, Mickelson had bogeys on three of the first five holes and then four-putted from 12 feet for a double bogey on the par-3 sixth.