US Open Golf

2022 - 6 - 16

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Trouble brewing on the course and off it as golf's awkward new era ... (Fox Sports)

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.

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U.S. Open live golf scores, results, highlights from Thursday's Round ... (Sporting News AU)

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.

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US Open Leaderboard, Latest Scores and Live Updates From ... (Golf Monthly)

The first day of the US Open starts, the toughest test in golf from Brookline Country Club.

If you want to see what every hole looks like, I recommend watching the video below... Diamond was absent last week at the RBC Canadian Open as he and his wife welcomed the arrival of their second child. For someone who is so good a lot of the time, Patrick Cantlay's Major record is pedestrian to say the least. Measuring at just 315 yards and downwind, this hole will see a lot of birdies today I think. After chopping it down the par-4 13th, Rory makes an excellent seven-foot putt for par to stay at level. A slight cut and he has 10 feet or so to get to one-under. Homa made his birdie putt by the way on the 6th and he is also to one-under. Amateur Travis Vick just missed a short birdie putt to do the same. Unfortunately I didn't see it because Sky wanted to take us down to the driving range instead... Great to see Rory start well again, just like he did at Southern Hills last month. Great to see him starting well after four consecutive Major missed cuts. England's Callum Tarren gets into the red thanks to a birdie at the 16th.

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US Open: Rory McIlroy pleased with strong start in Brookline ... (Sky Sports)

The world No 3 followed last week's RBC Canadian Open victory by posting an opening-round 67 at The Country Club, mixing four birdies with a lone bogey to sit ...

"My caddie just kept saying, fairways, greens, pars are really good, and they are in a US Open. I think I made a birdie on one to get to even and then gave it straight back. "The guys in front of us were playing so slow," McIlroy added. "Just excited with my start, and let's see what the next few days holds. "They were like a hole or hole-and-a-half behind the group in front of them. "Any little thing that doesn't quite go right, you're sort of putting yourself behind the eight-ball. Just basically did everything that you need to do at a US Open.

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Rory McIlroy lets his golf do the talking with strong start at US Open (The Guardian)

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.

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McIlroy insists hot start to US Open not about sending LIV Golf ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

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.

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McIlroy obliterates club in US Open rage (Wide World of Sports)

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.

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Huggan: Tarren continues multiple U.S. Open traditions (Golf Australia Magazine)

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.

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At the U.S. Open, it's Rory McIlroy and a lot of golfers you don't know (The Washington Post)

Do you take the players known only to golf eggheads and ranked 592nd, 445th, 296th, 130th or 105th? Do you take the English bloke ranked 445th whose clubs got ...

The more you do it, the more you get used to it.” They all got golf clubs, so it was the second U.S. Open I’ve played in, and the second time, no golf clubs.” He got it solved by Monday with help from some of those 38 million helpful souls: Canadians. Five holes in with no wind, defending champion Jon Rahm had himself a moment when, he said, “I was thinking, ‘We’re going to blow the roof off this place.’ ” Reigning British Open champion Collin Morikawa, a two-time major winner at 25, called it “gettable,” a word shelved if not condemned at most U.S. Opens. Both shot 1-under 69s. “This has been a year in the making, really,” Hadwin said. “It’s been eight years since I won a major, and I just want to get my hands on one again.” I wasn’t all-American. I wasn’t the best. But I’m pretty stubborn, and I’m not one to give up.” There have been some tough days, not going to lie, and you kind of start asking yourself those questions. Do you take the English bloke ranked 445th whose clubs got stuck at the Toronto airport so he had to walk around here Sunday with just a wedge? I think because of that, I’m a bit more at ease.” The group stood thick and populous beneath Hadwin’s 66 even though it lost Fitzpatrick, the hip pick of cognoscenti, when he bogeyed No. 18. Do you take the players known only to golf eggheads and ranked 592nd, 445th, 296th, 130th or 105th?

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