US Open

[Duncan Idaho]

Phil +7
Speith +8
Jason Day +9
Rory +10

 

[NowInStorrs]

This isn't tennis at all.

 

[Bezzz]

Tiger triple bogies the 1st. Ouch

 

[Deepster]

I honestly wonder what I'd shoot on this track. 220? A 12 on each hole? I'd probably lose 25 balls.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

I saw Ricky’s 73 +3 thats normally game over.
But he still is right in it on this course
I’m thinking +3 might even be a winner
Average around par for the next three rounds , it’s tough but doable.

 

[Guapo]

This is why the Masters is better

 

[uconnfan68]

This is why the Masters is better

Absolutely not.

 

[Guapo]

Absolutely not.

Look, I'm right and you're wrong.

Sorry.

 

[jleves]

I saw Ricky’s 73 +3 thats normally game over.
But he still is right in it on this course
I’m thinking +3 might even be a winner
Average around par for the next three rounds , it’s tough but doable.

Looks like the wind will be about half what it was today for the next three days. That will bring better scores. I think 8 under would be a good target for the winning score.

 

[UCDaveD]

Was there today. Wind was whipping. Tougher conditions for players teeing off later as the greens really started to dry out. That course is a bear. No margin for error.

Also, I met Wayne Gretzky. He was following DJ. Super nice dude. Took some pics with fans.

 

[LIuconn]

and goodbye J Day

 

[Robertelamin]

and goodbye J Day

He won’t win but he still may make the weekend.

 

[jleves]

He won’t win but he still may make the weekend.

He's got some work to do. The cut at this point would be +5 and that will probably move to +4 with better scoring tomorrow. He'd have to shoot a 65 to make the cut. I don't see it happening.

 

[UCDaveD]

Oh and the 7th hole is still absurdly difficult. I watched about 8 straight groups go through there without a birdie. 2 Doubles, 9 bogies, 13 pars.

 

[uconnfan68]

Oh and the 7th hole is still absurdly difficult. I watched about 8 straight groups go through there without a birdie. 2 Doubles, 9 bogies, 13 pars.

Listening to Golf Channel last might, and they said you have to hit a high cut to right side, no matter where the pin was. Speith missed that spot by maybe a yard, but it landed on the green, and he still took a 5. Just brutal.

 

[uconnfan68]

Look, I'm right and you're wrong.

Sorry.

In my opinion, the Masters is just quirky. If they want to shave the greens and collars, they can make it so no one breaks 80. But you can play every par 5 with driver + iron.

 

[Guapo]

In my opinion, the Masters is just quirky. If they want to shave the greens and collars, they can make it so no one breaks 80. But you can play every par 5 with driver + iron.

The horror!

 

[uconnfan68]

The horror!

Well, you and I can’t...

 

[Robertelamin]

He's got some work to do. The cut at this point would be +5 and that will probably move to +4 with better scoring tomorrow. He'd have to shoot a 65 to make the cut. I don't see it happening.

USGA thinks the cut will be +10.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Somewhere between -3 to -5 for the win. DJ may be able to shoot 141 for the weekend and still win it.

 

[Bezzz]

USGA thinks the cut will be +10.

Tiger birdied his last two holes (really clutch) to get to +10. I wonder if that influences the cut line to have Tiger playing this weekend. Ratings!

 

[NJHusky]

Tiger birdied his last two holes (really clutch) to get to +10. I wonder if that influences the cut line to have Tiger playing this weekend. Ratings!

There is nothing subjective about the cut line...it's not figure skating. Top 60 players (including ties) and anyone within 10 shots of the leader. Looks like it will be anyone at +6 or better.

Do you think if you told Phil he would hit 13/14 fairways on Thur and would finish with the same score as Speith and 6 better than Rory on Friday what the odds you could have gotten that he would have been on the first page of the leaderboard....let alone missing the cut!!

 

[Chin Diesel]

Love watching players like Spieth struggle with ball rolling back down to their feet. Just like it was fun to watch Sergio go Tin Cup at the Masters.

The same stubbornness that makes them great and allows them to hit shots we don't dare try also leaves them open for embarrassment on the great golf tracks around the world.

 

[jleves]

There is nothing subjective about the cut line...it's not figure skating. Top 60 players (including ties) and anyone within 10 shots of the leader. Looks like it will be anyone at +6 or better.

Do you think if you told Phil he would hit 13/14 fairways on Thur and would finish with the same score as Speith and 6 better than Rory on Friday what the odds you could have gotten that he would have been on the first page of the leaderboard....let alone missing the cut!!

They got rid or the 10 shot rule. It's only top 60 and ties. I was way off on the direction I thought the line would move with better weather.

All that being said, Dustin is a freakin machine. Had he worked hard his entire career, he'd be approaching Tiger numbers for majors.

 

[jleves]

So going into the weekend, Tiger Cut, Day Cut, Rory Cut, Spieth Cut. Phil +6, Reed +5, Thomas +4 and everyone else +4 or +3, I would say no chance.
Fowler +2, Henley +2, Stenson +1, Rose +1, Fleetwood +1, Koepka +1, Poulter +1, Hoffman even, Piercy even, all in it.

Obviously it's DJs to lose and he's yet to put up a big number on any hole (nothing worse than a bogey).

I honestly don't see a lot of drama over the weekend. DJ cruises to a 2nd open. He's just better than everyone else right now like Tiger was a decade ago. I think he posts 4 rounds in the 60s and nobody will touch that.

Kudos to uconnfan86 to be the only one to pick him in the other thread.