There aren’t many programs extra humbling to skilled golfers than when the U.S. Open makes its return to Oakmont. It is one of many hardest programs on this planet, and golfers virtually appear to get pleasure from the kind of chaos the Pittsburgh-area course can present.
J.J. Spaun clearly didn’t get the memo on how troublesome it was going to be when he conquered the course in addition to anybody ever has with an opening-round 66 on Thursday.
He goes into day two of the match because the chief within the clubhouse at four-under.
It is not that he was considered one of solely a handful of golfers to return below par or that he ended the opening day on high. It is that his 66 is tied for the bottom opening-round rating in U.S. Open historical past at Oakmont.
