All people stated this was going to be laborious. All people knew it was going to be laborious. When the U.S. Open made its return to Oakmont, the overall consensus was that it was going to be an absolute nightmare for even one of the best golfers on the planet.
By means of the primary two rounds of the one hundred and twenty fifth U.S. Open, that has just about proved to be the case.
One of many world’s finest — and hardest — golf programs has spent the previous two days irritating all people, whereas additionally stopping among the top-ranked golfers on the tour from making it by means of to the weekend.
Following Friday’s second spherical, which ended with Sam Burns atop the leaderboard at three-under, solely three golfers within the subject had been beneath par. That honor belonged to Burns, J.J. Spaun (minus-2) and Viktor Hovland (minus-1), whereas solely Adam Scott and Ben Griffin had been even.
All people else competing?
Over par.
That features 66 golfers who had been plus-10 or worse and 10 golfers who completed greater than 20-over par.
The listing of golfers who did not make the lower can also be lengthy and distinguished, and it consists of among the top-ranked golfers on the planet.
Amongst them are Justin Thomas (plus-12), Ludvig Abert (plus-8), Bryson DeChambeau (plus-10), Shane Lowry (plus-17), Tommy Fleetwood (plus-9) and Justin Rose (plus-14).
All of them entered the weekend amongst the top 25 golfers in the world.
None of them made the lower.
There usually are not many programs that problem the professionals to this diploma, however typically it is enjoyable to see the professionals pushed to their absolute limits. Not each event wants to finish with a winner 15 or 16 below par. Not each course wants to supply the bottom attainable scores. Typically, as followers, it is enjoyable to only sit again and see how the professionals react to the identical form of frustrations on a regular basis golfers can have when attempting to play out of unimaginable situations.
That is what the U.S. Open is all about. It is imagined to be the hardest event, and Oakmont all the time delivers.
