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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Shane Lowry suffers one-stroke penalty

at U.S. Open

By Sean Martin, PGATOUR.COM

Despite his penalty on 16, Shane Lowry played the final 11 holes of his second round in 2 under par. (Rob Carr/Getty Images)

OAKMONT, Pittsburgh. – Shane Lowry was just two strokes off the lead as the U.S. Open’s third round begins, but the Irishman could have been even closer to leader Dustin Johnson.
Lowry suffered a one-stroke penalty when his ball moved after he addressed it on the 16th hole, his seventh hole of Saturday’s second round. Lowry is 2 under par after shooting 68-70 in his first two rounds at Oakmont.
He made bogey on his first hole of the second round, the par-4 10th, then made five consecutive pars before arriving at the par-3 16th. Lowry selected a 6-iron for his tee shot, and hit his ball 30 feet from the hole.
“I had a straightforward two-putt from 30 feet up the hill,” he said. “I addressed the ball and the ball moved back. I had to penalize myself. It’s very frustrating in a tournament like that.”
He called himself “immature” for hitting his birdie putt too quickly after the penalty. He avoided further damage by making an 8-foot bogey putt, though.
“I think if I would have missed that, it would have been difficult to get back from there,” he said. “(If) I miss that, all of a sudden I’m over par for the tournament. When you get over par, you start to think, ‘Where can I pick up a birdie?’ And you might start forcing it. So that was big for me.”
He played his final 11 holes in 2 under par, making nine pars and birdies at Nos. 4 and 6.
Lowry, 29, is playing his fourth U.S. Open. He missed the cut in his first two appearances (2011, ’14), but finished T9 last year at Chambers Bay. He has finished in the top 10 twice in 13 major starts; he also finished T9 in the 2014 Open Championship. Lowry had missed the cut in six of 13 majors before this week.
He won his first US PGA TOUR title last year at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational. Lowry also owns two European Tour wins; he won the 2009 Irish Open while still an amateur and claimed the 2012 Portugal Masters.
Lowry is No. 41 in the Official World Golf Ranking.

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Labels: US OPEN

Northern Open at Royal Dornoch next week

By ROBIN WILSON

Royal Dornoch members and county golfers have plenty to focus on next week when, after an absence of 22 years, the Northern Open championship returns to its world favourite golf course as part of its 400 Year celebrations.

Now retired, Kevin Stables was the professional winner in 1994 but the locals will be keeping a watch not only on their own professional stable under Andrew Skinner but their top amateurs who will be seeking the same success as Jimmy Gunn did in the competition when it twice visited the Skibo links in 2005 and 2007.

Dornoch young professional Sean Fay leads off the play on Tuesday morning in twith ex-Dornoch assistant Stuart Morrison (Tain) A second ex-Dornoch assistant, Greg McBain, goes out shortly afterwards.
Then, current Royal Dornoch number two Gary Dingwall and finally at 13.18 head pro Andrew Skinner complete the Dornoch professional involvement.
Making his return to the professional tour scene for the first time since becoming Brora's new professional is Malcolm Murray who tees of at 7.39am

Sutherland's last two county champions Chris Mailley and Alex MacDonald spearhead the home amateur challenge and they have four in support, David McIntosh, David Pearson, Bryan Urquhart and Craig MacKay.

Other familiar faces to watch out for are David Grindell (Inverness), Gavin Hay (Grantown) and amateur Fraser Fotheringham (The Nairn).

Ross-shire gets new county champion

Ross-shire have a new county champion in Chris Gaittens of Fortrose and Rosemarkie. Gaittens beat off a recovery from defending champion Lyle McAlpine (Tain) after McAlpine led him by two shots from a first-round level par 70 over the Tain golf course

McAlpine lost all his chance of winning the cup for a fourth time when, at the third hole of his second round, he took nine shots after twice visiting the bushes on the left.

Gaittens, pictured right, surged into the lead with a birdie 3 at the same hole and held onto a two-stroke lead until he three-putted the 17^th green. His lead now one stroke, he responded with a closing birdie to clinch his first Ross-shire championship.

Hugh Baillie passes away in his 88th year

By ROBIN WILSON

On the same day as Brora Golf Club staged its Senior Open tournament the club flag was lowered to half mast as a mark of respect and memory of respected senior member Hugh Baillie who, during the night of Thursday/Friday, passed away in his sleep in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.

Hugh ,or “Hootie” (pictured right) as he was known to us all, was in his 88^th year and in his near 60 years' membership, several of these years as Club President and Secretary, he was recognised as the father of the modern day club.

Much more will be written and recalled of Hugh Baillie over the coming weeks but for the moment and as I sit down to pen my weekly golf coverage I recalled my first article to the Northern Times in the early 1980.

Hugh had covered both football and golf for our local Raggie and when he stopped the golf coverage I telephoned the then Editor, Jim Henderson to complain of the lack of golf coverage.

He responded with “You write them and I will print them” so that's how the readers still have me! (new volunteers welcome). I began with a preview of the season's fixtures and started with the opening line, “Saturday sees the start of the open fixtures on the Sutherland courses”.

I passed it by HB to check over. It came back with my first grammatical correction “SATURDAYS CAN'T SEE”

I went to him many times since to help with introductory paragraphs to my reports, especially if my own golf was to be given a mention. This and his company in the Golf Club I will miss most. The funeral has been provisionally set for Monday but for now I will return to my golf duties with a sad heart.

ROBERT SMITH WINS BRORA SENIORS OPEN

Robert Smith, a member of The Nairn golf team of seniors who won the Senior Northern Counties Cup at Royal Dornoch last month, returned the lowest gross score of 72 to win the Brora Seniors' Open, while Roger Thorley of the Stanedge Golf Club in Derbyshire won the Seniors Cup with a nett 67.

Scratch player Smith, into the stiffening wind, easily matched the out par of 35 with a bogey free nine holes, then went three under par with birdies on the 10^th,,13^th and 14th holes. A pulled drive to the left of fairway from the 15th tee and a second ball in the same direction blocked his way to the pin on the green and the resulting seven was a big scar on his inward half of 37 for 72.

However, it bettered by a shot, the 73 (38-35) from Reay's Raymond Taylor.

Taylor's nett 69 progressed him to first place in the low handicap section followed by local George F Sutherland and ex Brora Bobbie, Mike Cormack. In Class Two local Ian Davidson's recent club successes were followed with another handicap-breaking net 68 to get ahead on the better inward half of new clubmate Andrew Smith.

Derbyshire's Thorley took time off from a fishing trip to the River Helmsdale to play so if he had to return his Helmsdale catch he had at least one trophy to take back to his Stanedge Club.

Playing from handicap 16 he completed his outward half in 40, despite a double bogey on the par five eighth hole, and included two sixes on the inward run for gross 83 and net 67 to deny the locals Davidson and Smith by a shot.

Prize Winners

Scratch (CSS70)

R W Smith (The Nairn) 72; R S Cameron (Brora) 74; B Nicholson (Muir of Ord) 75.

Handicap

Class 1 – R S Taylor (Reay) (4) 69; G F Sutherland (Brora) (10), M Cormack (Inverness) (11) 70.

Class 2 – I Davidson (Brora) (19), A Smith (Brora) (17) 68; F Ogley (Invergordon) (15) 71.

Senior Cup – R Thorley (Stanedge) (16) 67.

Labels: Amateur Men, ASIAN TOUR, Senior men

Trump International Links to stage P and J

Energy Cup for teams of four amateurs

FROM TODAY'S PRESS AND JOURNAL
By DANNY LAW
The inaugural Press and Journal Energy Cup golf tournament, in association with the Balmoral Group, will be played at Trump International Golf Links, Balmedie (12 miles up the North-east coastline from Aberdeen), on Thursday, September 29.
The event will provide teams of four with an opportunity to play the Martin Hawtree-designed par-72 championship course.
A gala dinner will be held in the evening at Trump Clubhouse, hosted by former European Tour player and broadcaster Alan Tait.
The dinner will also provide an opportunity to raise money for the competition's charity partners, the Friends of ANCHOR.
Jim Milne, chairman and managing director of Balmorgal Group, said:
"We are excited about this addition to the Aberdeen golf calendar. Anyone who has played Trump International knows it is a real challenge and I would encourage copanies to come forward and use the event as a high profile networking opportnity.
"I hope the Energy Cup becomes a recognised and permanent annual tournament and look forward to welcoming the teams to this world-beatin course in September."
Teams of four amateurs and sponsorship opportunities are still available for the competition and those interested should contact Craig Simpson at Jigsaw Media on craig.simpson@jigsawmedia.co.uk for more information.

Labels: WHERE TO GO

Scott Gregory beats Robert MacIntyre
2 and 1 in 36-hole final

R and A NEWS RELEASE

Royal Porthcawl, South Wales: Scott Gregory came out on top in the closely fought Final of The 121st Amateur Championship at Royal Porthcawl today.

The 21-year-old from Corhampton in Hampshire held off a strong challenge from Oban's Robert MacIntyre to seal a 2 and 1 victory in the 36-hole match.

The England A international secured a place in The 145^th Open at Royal Troon, next year’s US Open at Erin Hills and, by tradition, an invitation to the Masters Tournament in 2017.
Gregory, pictured with the trophy by courtesy of the R and A, got off to a strong start and led for most of the morning round, moving to 3 up by the 12th hole. The left-handed McIntyre, the 2015 Scottish Amateur Champion, showed his resolve to win the 15th with an excellent chip from thick rough left of the green to 5ft and then holed a 30ft putt on the 16th to reduce the deficit to one hole.
The 19-year-old from Glencruitten, near Oban, missed a 4ft putt at the next which would have won him the hole and Gregory bounced back with a delicate chip from a steep down slope by the 18th green to secure a half and retain a one hole lead going into the afternoon.
The momentum shifted to MacIntyre in the early stages of the afternoon round and the Scot moved ahead for the first time in the match when he won the 20th and 21st holes with pars after Gregory found the rough with his approaches to both holes.
The evenly matched pair traded holes over the next six holes with the left-handed MacIntyre losing the 22nd after finding a greenside bunker. Gregory showed his mastery of bunker play with a fine escape from 60 yards short of the green at the next and holed from 8ft to move back in front.
MacIntyre birdied the 24th to move back to all square and Gregory replied with a birdie at the 118-yard par three 25th when his tee shot finished a foot from the hole to edge in front. The Scot fought back once again, holing a 6ft par putt to win the 27th, but Gregory, who was runner-up in this year’s Spanish Amateur Championship, enjoyed some good fortune on the 28th when he overhit his chip from the side of the green and it struck the flag and dropped to a foot from the hole to earn him a half.
Gregory holed an 8ft putt from the back of the 30th to claim the hole and when MacIntyre found a greenside bunker at the 31st the Englishman was 2 up with five to play. When the 35th was halved in four, Gregory completed the most important victory of his young career.
Gregory had six birdies over the 35 holes; MacIntyre four.

Key quotes:

Scott Gregory
“Obviously it’s a dream come true, you dream about moments like this when you are practising all those hours and when you’re not playing as well as you’d like to. It’s (playing in The Open) going to be completely new to me so hopefully I can get some decent practice rounds in with some people and see where I go from there.
“I think luck went my way a little bit, that definitely helped. I got a couple of lies where I shouldn’t have had lies but I made the most out of the opportunities that I had.

“I kept telling myself if I got chances, I’ve got to take them because that’s what people who win these championships do. They give themselves chances and when they get them, they take them. I knew that putt on 17 was the moment I needed to make it so it was nice to do it.”

Robert MacIntyre

“I’m gutted overall but it was a good match. It was a close one all the way to the 17th. But fair play to Scott he hung in there and ended up walking away with the trophy.

“I thought he struck it brilliantly in the first 12 holes. His short game was just unbelievable. Mine wasn’t quite as sharp as his but we’ll take positives from it.

“I had heard of Scott but I’d never met him or played with him. He’s a great guy and all the best to him in the tournaments he gets to play in now. It was nice to meet him.”

The 122nd Amateur Championship will be played at Royal St George’s and Prince’s in Kent from 19-24 June 2017.

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Labels: Amateur Men

Prom goes two shots clear in Queen's Cup

in Thailand

ASIAN TOUR NEWS RELEASE

Samui, Thailand: Thailand’s Prom Meesawat shot a second successive six-under-par 65 to open up a two-shot lead from countryman Jazz Janewattananond and Australian Scott Hend after the third round of the Queen’s Cup today.

The burly home star brilliantly snared seven birdies against a lone bogey at the Santiburi Samui Country Club to lead the US$300,000 Asian Tour tournament on 13-under-par 200.

Big-hitting Hend fired a blemish-free 64 to charge into contention for a ninth Asian Tour title while Jazz returned a 66 to earn his shot at a maiden title on Sunday.

In-form Korean Jeunghun Wang, who won back-to-back tournaments in Morocco and Mauritius last month, produced a career low 62 with two eagles and seven birdies to trail by three alongside American Paul Peterson, who returned a 68.

Prom, 31, hit top form from the ninth hole with five consecutive birdies before dropping a shot on 14 for only his third bogey of the week.

“Five birdies in a row … it’s a good turning point. I birdied nine and 10 which are not easy holes and I had another special one on 12. After I hit it into the bunker, I thought if I can walk away with par, I’ll be happy. (But) I just hit it beautifully to two feet, a six iron from 175 yards. That was the best shot of the day,” beamed Prom, who is nicknamed the “Big Dolphin”.

Bidding for a third Asian Tour victory and a first on home soil, Prom said the key would be to stick to his own game, despite having the likes of Hend and Wang, the highest two ranked players in the field, chasing him.

“When you have a couple of shots lead, it’s a good position. I’ll just concentrate on my game which has been what I’ve been doing for three rounds. It’ll be between me and the golf course. On this course, you have to fight the course, you can’t fight the other players,” said Prom.

“If you can win the royal trophy, it will be an honour for you and your family. Any event you win at home will always be special.”

Hend, the most successful international golfer on the Asian Tour, was in complete control of his game to tame Santiburi Samui, nicknamed the Beast of Samui, with seven birdies, including five on the home stretch.

“This course doesn’t suit me at all. I just play total opposite golf than what I want to play,” said Hend, one of the longest drivers on Tour.

“My strength is my drives and it’s not something I can do around here. If I hit it good, I’ll make an easy birdie and if I don’t I’ll make an easy triple. It’s just about being patient especially on the front nine. The added pressure tomorrow for the boys on the back nine will be fun.”

THIRD-ROUND SCOREBOARD

Par 213 (3x71) Yardage 6,808

200 - Prom MEESAWAT (THA) 70-65-65.

202 - Scott HEND (AUS) 69-69-64, Jazz JANEWATTANANOND (THA) 69-67-66.

203 - Jeunghun WANG (KOR) 69-72-62, Paul PETERSON (USA) 70-65-68.

204 - Gunn CHAROENKUL (THA) 67-69-68.

205 - Antonio LASCUNA (PHI) 70-70-65, Sorachut HANSAPIBAN (THA) 68-72-65, Donlaphatchai NIYOMCHON (THA) 73-65-67, Thanyakon KHRONGPHA (THA) 70-68-67.

206 - Nicholas FUNG (MAS) 70-70-66, HSIEH Chi-hsien (TPE) 72-67-67, Natthapong NIYOMCHON (THA) 70-69-67, Pavit TANGKAMOLPRASERT (THA) 70-67-69, Carlos PIGEM (ESP) 66-69-71.

207 - Simon GRIFFITHS (ENG) 71-71-65.

208 - Prayad MARKSAENG (THA) 69-72-67, CHAN Shih-chang (TPE) 73-68-67, Phanuvich ONCHU (THA) 70-69-69.

Labels: ASIAN TOUR

Link to scores from TENNANT CUP first two rounds at Glasgow Gailes

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2014 winner Alasdair McDougall (Elderslie)
2015 winner Alasdair McDougall (Elderslie)

FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD
par 71. SSS 74. CSS 74
69 CLARK, Matthew

70 SHAW, Jordan

71 WOOD, Edmund

71 THURLOW, Alastair
71 MITCHELL, David jun
71 BAIRD, Colin

71 EASTON, Stuart

71 FISHER, Adam

71 McINTOSH, Euan

71 KINSLEY, B A A
72 SUTHERLAND, Alan J
72 NELSON, C W
72 DUNCAN, George
72 WATSON, C R

72 BRADLEY, Paul

72 GAULT, Paul

73 BRYDON, Ross

73 RENNIE, Steven73 MACNEAL, C H
73 McDOUGALL, Alasdair
73 WHITE, Ross

73 DAVIDSON, C

73 DOUGAN, D
73 DALGLEISH, Blair 73 WILSON, David

74 ROGER, Stephen
74 MARONEY, Kenny

74 BUCHANAN, Sandy
74 NAPIER, Mark

75 CANTLEY, Kieran

75 MURRAY, Ben
75 GOLD, Nicky

75 CAMPBELL, Andrew

75 ALEXANDER, Ben
76 WILSON, James A
76 GRANT, Fraser

76 HART, Ellis
76 PATERSON, James

77 COCHRANE, Callum
77 BRONIS, Aaron

77 PORTER, W
77 BROWN, Jonathon P
77 McNAUGHTON, Alistair
77 McNEILL, Duncan
77 CHAMBERS, Liam
77 ELLIOTT, Callum
77 CHRISTIE, Darren

78 TELFER, Greg
78 HUGHES, Craig
78 PARLANE, Allister
79 LOW, Christopher

79 DAVIDSON, Andrew

79 MacANDREW, Nicholas

79 MACRAE, N A
79 McKENNA, B

80 CARRICK, Angus

80 RUDD, David

80 ANDERSON, Alan

81 HAMILTON, Keith

81 BROWN, G

81 PENNYCOTT, Malcolm

81 ROGERS, I

81 KEMSLEY, Robbie
82 MORRISON, W Craig

82 FERGUSON, Allan M

84 GORN, Hamish
84 RUSSELL, Alan

85 DALZIEL, Greg
88 WYLIE, S
NR MORRISON, Thomas
NR NEIL, Connor
NR McCALMAN, Chris

Labels: Amateur Men

CHALLENGE TOUR report and scores

Belgian Detry's second-round 67 puts

him in the mix in Najeti Open

FROM THE CHALLENGE TOUR WEBSITE

Thomas Detry put himself firmly in contention on the European Challenge Tour as he shot up the leaderboard on the third morning of the Najeti Open to lie just one shot behind after the completion of the delayed second round.
Following storms on the first two days, Aa Saint-Omer Golf Club was playing soft and the Belgian took advantage of the conditions, firing six birdies in a four under par round of 67 to trail leader Andrea Pavan – who finished his second round last night – by one shot on eight under par.
The 23 year old only turned professional at last week’s KMPG Trophy, where he finished an impressive tied sixth, and he hopes to learn quickly from those lessons of contending over the weekend to challenge again in France.
“I learned last week I just need to stay patient,” he said. “Putts will fall and maybe on Sunday, if I’m still in contention, I can be a little bit more aggressive – I stick to my game plan pretty well but there are times when I feel I can be a bit more aggressive.
“It’s funny because I was expecting to be nervous, especially last week, but I actually wasn’t nervous at all. It was great to start my first two rounds as a professional five under, five under, so that showed me that I had the potential and I had the game to be competitive here.
“Last week gave me a lot of confidence and this week, I heard a lot of stuff about this course – it’s a tricky course and you’ve just got to be patient because you’re going to have some bad luck.
“I managed to stay patient, I managed to get some good up-and-downs when I needed to and take care of some of the tough holes out there.
“The greens are really good, it’s in great shape, so there is nothing to complain about. You’ve got to play smart and keep the hole in front of you – if you start leaving yourself downhill putts it gets pretty difficult.
“The plan is to get on the European Tour, however long that takes – six months, a year, two years. We have a plan for two-and-a-half years to get on the tour so there’s no rush, but my plan right now is to get there as fast as I can because I see I have the game to be competitive here.”
Italy’s Pavan, a four-time winner on the Challenge Tour, shot a fine round of 66 to reach nine under par at the halfway point, with first round leaders Victor Riu and Duncan Stewart both slipping down the leaderboard.
Portugal’s José-Filipe Lima lies in third on six under par after a round of 70, one shot ahead of Stewart, Ben Stow and France’s own Matthieu Pavon, the highest-ranked player on the Road to Oman in the field this week.
The Rankings Number Two is one of 15 Frenchmen to make the cut which fell at two over par, with 79 players surviving to play the final 36 holes.

SECOND ROUND COMPLETED
Par 142 (2x71)
133 PAVAN, Andrea (Ita) 67 66.
134 DETRY, Thomas (Bel) 67 67.
136 LIMA, José-Filipe (Por) 66 70
137 PAVON, Matthieu (Fra) 68 69; STEWART, Duncan (Sco) 65 72; STOW, Ben (Eng) 70 67.
138 GLENNEMO, Jacob (Swe) 71 67; PERRIER, Damien (Fra) 71 67; RIU, Victor (Fra)
65 73.
139 GAUNT, Daniel (Australia) 65 74; SELFRIDGE, Chris (N Ireland) 73 66; WUENSCHE, Daniel (Ger) 68 71; LLOYD, Darryn (S Africa) 70 69; ORRIN, Max (Eng) 70 69; TADINI, Alessandro (Italy) 68 71.
SELECTED SCORES:
141 Ross KELLETT (Sco) 72 69, David LAW (Sco) 72 69.
142 Jack DOHERTY (Sco) 74 68.

MISSED THE CUT
146 Scott HENRY (Sco) 72 74.
147 Paul SHIELDS (Sco) 75 72.

Third round started at 1pm, which means the leaders will probably not be able to complete their rounds.

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Labels: CHALLENGE TOUR

UNITED STATES OPEN report and scores

Sergio Garcia battles his way at Oakmont

to be two off lead at halfway

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Sergio Garcia showed all his battling qualities as he completed a 36-hole marathon at Oakmont Country Club to sit just two shots off the lead at the US Open.
Half the field will begin their second rounds on Saturday morning after lengthy rain delays on day one, but Garcia - who was in the other half of the draw - completed rounds of 68-70 on Friday.
The Spaniard's playing partner Dustin Johnson set the clubhouse target at four under and with the notoriously difficult layout in Pennyslvania getting firmer in warmer conditions, that could well prove to be the second-round lead come Saturday afternoon.
Garcia recovered from two early bogeys to post his opening 68 and when he returned to the course shortly after, he slipped back to level par before birdies on the second and sixth moved him back up the leaderboard.
A 51-foot putt to save par on the ninth - his final hole - epitomised the nature of Garcia's day, and the 11-time European Tour winner was pleased with his efforts.
"It was tough, obviously," he said. "I'm not going to lie, it was much easier than it was in the practice rounds because of the rain. But it was a little bit breezy this morning. It played tough.
"You still had to hit good shots. A lot of pins, you had to be careful not to spin it too much to spin it off the green. So you still have to think your way around very well.
"It's definitely the toughest (course) I've ever played. There's no doubt about it."
England's Andy Sullivan was a shot behind Garcia after rounds of 71-68 and the three-time European Tour winner believes patience will be the key over the weekend.
"I'm going to try to use my experience I have on the European Tour of being up there and winning events," he said. "Try and pull on that.
"I know it's going to be a long, hard weekend. The greens are going to get firmer and quicker and I'll have to be ultra patient out there.
"Probably not as aggressive as I've been the first couple of days because I have to play a little bit smarter. But it is what it is and I'm going to thrive on it, up there at the US Open."
Countryman Lee Slattery is a further shot back and knows that a good weekend here would move his career into another stratosphere.
"I feel like I'm at a time in my life where I've been on Tour for a long time and I've got to try to elevate myself up to another level, whether it's this week, next week, whenever it is," said the 37 year old, who came through the 36-hole qualifier at Walton Heath last month.
"I feel I've got to win something a little bit bigger to keep on achieving my goals in life.
"Obviously I want to play a Ryder Cup and also just contend in bigger events and one day you never know."

Host of big names will miss cut

GOLFWEEK.COM
OAKMONT, Pennsylvania — We’ll have another marathon session of golf Saturday at Oakmont Country Club before the 36-hole cut can be made in the 116th U.S. Open, but a picture already is coming into focus for many of the game’s biggest names.
And it doesn’t look pretty.
When play came to a halt at 8:42 p.m. Friday, only 50 players had completed 36 holes. With 27 on the course with a few holes left to finish their second rounds, then 78 others still to follow for a full 18, the projected cut for low 60 and ties stood at 5 over.
This surely will not be a repeat of the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont when 10 over made the cut. Of the notable names who have completed 36 holes, Brandt Snedeker and Webb Simpson at 11 over, Hideki Matsuyama at 12 over and Smylie Kaufman at 13 over are free to pack.
As for Charley Hoffman and Billy Horschel, both at 6 over, it’s likely they’ll be hitting the refresh button on their phones. (But you’d have to love their chances.)
When play resumes Saturday morning, a few holes of pressure golf will face Justin Rose (6 over), Phil Mickelson (7 over) and Ernie Els (8 over), all in need of a birdie or two to makes things more comfortable. Henrik Stenson, meanwhile, played his first round in 69, but was 10 over through 16 in the afternoon and likely will leave early.
Then there are those who’ll have 18 holes to play, most notably Rory McIlroy at 7 over, Rickie Fowler at 6 over and Danny Willett at 5 over. Each will be desperate for a red number to make his pursuit easier.
SCOREBOARD
par 140 (2x70)
SECOND ROUND NOT COMPLETED AT END OF DAY 2

Dustin Johnson

136

Andrew Landry