The 2022 champion Matt Fitzpatrick drains a 30-foot right-to-left swinger across 1. He walked that in with confidence. Meanwhile another penalty drop for Tommy Fleetwood, his second in his first two holes, after driving into a native area down the left of 2. That’s a 5-5 start and he’s +2 already.
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US Open golf 2025: first round pits players against brutal Oakmont setup – live | US Open Key events Rory McIlroy, the latest member of the career-slam club, is out and about. He’s having trouble with the driver at the moment, but that’s not an issue when you take iron off the tee. He fires his opening shot down the middle of 10, then knocks his approach to 12 feet. Big chance for an opening birdie, but he gives the right-to-left slider too much on the high side. There goes that dream. Par, and it’s the same for his playing partners Justin Rose and Shane Lowry. A summit meeting of European royalty. Last year, Ludvig Åberg led going into the weekend at his first US Open. He ended up tied for 12th, a fine effort on debut. This year he’s leading after the first hour of action, having followed up birdie at 10 by wedging from 140 yards to three feet at 11 and tidying up for another. The very early leader Maxwell Moldovan meanwhile bogeys 2 but remains one of three players under par this morning. There are currently 32 players out on the course. -2: Åberg (2*) The defending champion Bryson DeChambeau gets a lucky break with his opening tee shot. He sends it towards Fleetwood Country down the left, but his ball stops on a pathway trodden down by the paying punters. He sends his second onto the front of the green, but the camber takes the ball off to the right and nestles up against the fringe. He doesn’t make a good contact with his putt, which bobbles then races ten feet past the flag. He can’t make the one coming back – “Misread!” he yelps – and that’s a messy opening bogey for last year’s winner. Tommy Fleetwood came so close to this title in 2018 at Shinnecock Hills, his final round of 63 not quite enough to pip Brooks Koepka. That year’s runner-up hopes to go one better this time round, but he’s not off to the best start, sending his tee shot at 1 into a ditch down the left. He’s forced to take a penalty drop, and does well to eventually limit the damage to bogey by tickling in a 12-foot putt. He’s +1. While Alistair Docherty was faffing about, his playing partner Zac Blair made the first birdie of the week with a 30-foot rake across 10. But never mind that, because Maxwell Moldovan, playing in his fourth consecutive US Open, holes out from 189 yards (!) on 1 to make the first eagle of this 125th edition. It’s some shot as well, landing on the front of the green, appearing to slow towards a halt, only to somehow keep rolling, keep rolling, keep rolling and in. The greens are lightning, did anyone say? -2: Moldovan (1) Let’s start as we mean to go on … by acknowledging the first double bogey of the week. All hail Alistair Docherty, who might be the first but sure won’t be the last. The 31-year-old Korn Ferry Tour regular from Washington state requires two attempts to chip up onto the green from a short-sided position on 10, and he’s +2 in short order. PreambleEarlier this week, the DP World Tour socials collared a few pros and asked them what an 18-handicapper would shoot at Oakmont this week. The most generous estimate was 120; Bryson DeChambeau guessed 100, but that’s just on the front nine. Several of them were certain they’d have to walk in, having lost all of their balls. As for the pros? Take the last couple of US Opens to be held here. Angel Cabrera won in 2007 with a final total of +5. In 2016, Shane Lowry held a four-stroke lead going into the final round only to shoot 76 and let Dustin Johnson in. This place – the jungle rough, the upturned-saucer greens, the excitable needle on the stimpmeter – makes mincemeat of the best of them. The lowest winning total at a US Open here is -5, and it took Ben Hogan to manage that, for goodness sake. (To be fair, Johnny Miller and Ernie Els won with -5 as well, Miller shooting the first-ever 63 in a major while doing so, but let’s not cloud the issue.) So this should be fun. Yes it will. Here are the tee times (USA unless stated, all times BST, (a) denotes amateur). It’s on! Starting at hole 1 Starting at hole 10 Source link Posted: 2025-06-12 13:11:48 |
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