Tiger has some work to do. So does Dustin Johnson. But Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and even Lee Westwood are in good shape. Here are the key storylines heading into Round 2 of the U.S. Open.
The U.S. Open, especially at Winged Foot, is not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be hard. It's supposed to be impossible. On Thursday, it wasn't. Will that change, or is the USGA softening?
There were good moments, bad moments and plenty of moments of scrambling for Tiger Woods in the first round of the U.S. Open. Here's how it all went down.
Bryson DeChambeau shot a 2-under-par 68 -- the lowest round of the Friday morning wave -- that gave him the clubhouse lead at the 120th U.S. Open at 137, 3 under par.
Supporters will be allowed to attend a European Tour event for the first time since the resumption of golf after the coronavirus outbreak at the Scottish Open next month.
Justin Thomas (65) was one of 21 players to shoot under par Thursday at Winged Foot. The result: a 1-shot U.S. Open lead over Patrick Reed, Thomas Pieters and Matthew Wolff.
Phil Mickelson's 79 at Thursday's U.S. Open was tied for his worst opening round in any major in his career. He's in second-to-last place at Winged Foot.
Jordan Spieth, the three-time major championship winner who has no victories since his 2017 Open victory, managed to shoot 3-over 73 but is tied for 78th place at Winged Foot in the U.S. Open.
Even though he had five birdies on his card, Tiger Woods could not find much that was positive about his start to the U.S. Open at Winged Foot.
USGA CEO Mike Davis said the organization looked at making Winged Foot "a little bit easier" for the U.S. Open.
Patrick Reed recorded a hole-in-one at the seventh hole in the first round of the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. Watch it happen.
More money has been bet on Tiger Woods to win the U.S. Open than has been bet on any other golfer at William Hill sportsbooks, although Phil Mickelson has attracted the largest single bet.
Tiger hasn't been great since the restart. Is the U.S. Open at Winged Foot the place he finds his game? He's just one of the big question marks going into the year's second major. There's Phil and Bryson and the difficulty of Winged Foot.
The Australian PGA Tour, scheduled to take place on the Gold Coast in December, has been postponed until 2021 as Australia's strict border controls cause a major obstacle.
A par on the final hole of the 2006 U.S. Open would have altered the conversation. Phil Mickelson would have won his first U.S. Open and third consecutive major. Tiger Woods was struggling after his father's death. Instead, Phil had his "idiot" moment.
The energy normally provided by spectators will be missing this week when the U.S. Open gets underway at Winged Foot Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, and Justin Thomas said that will take a lot out of the proceedings.
