Preamble
…and we’re back. Twelve hours ago, anyway, the first day of the 124th edition of the US Open came to an end. Now we’re back to work! Friday promises to be another Homeric odyssey, and we’ll blog about that ♫♪ all day looooooonng♫♪. Today’s second round start times are below, but first here’s what the top of a star-studded leaderboard looked like at the end of play last night…
-5: Cantlay, McIlroy
-4: Åberg
-3: Pavon, DeChambeau
-2: Finau, Hatton, Bhatia
…and here are today’s starting times (US, unless otherwise stated, always BST, (a) indicates amateurs). It is on!
Starting at hole 1
1145 Grant Forrest (Sco), Greyson Sigg, (a) Wells Williams
1156 Chesson Hadley, Mark Hubbard, Adam Svensson (Can)
1207 Beau Hossler, Victor Perez (Fra), Adam Schenk
1218 Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Nick Taylor (Can)
1229 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Tom Hoge
1240 Bryson DeChambeau, Max Homa, Viktor Hovland (Nor)
1251 Peter Malnati, JT Poston, Sepp Straka (Aut)
1302 Jake Knapp, (a) Gordon Sargent, Cameron Young
1313 Billy Horschel, Chris Kirk, Adam Scott (Aus)
1324 (a) Benjamin James, Ben Kohles, Denny McCarthy
1335 Frankie Capan, (a) Luke Clanton, Andrew Svoboda
1346 Harry Higgs, (a) Hiroshi Tai (Sgp), Brandon Wu
1357 Otto Black, Chris Naegel, Joey Vrzich
1730 Rico Hoey (Phi), Matteo Manassero (Ita), Tom McKibbin (NIrl)
1741 Dean Burmester (Rsa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Seamus Power (Irl)
1752 Seong-Hyeon Kim (Kor), Justin Lower, Tim Widing (Swe)
1803 Sam Burns, Lucas Glover, Cameron Smith (Aus)
1814 Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Tiger Woods, Will Zalatoris
1825 Patrick Cantlay, Russell Henley, Matt Kuchar
1836 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Tony Finau, Dustin Johnson
1847 Justin Rose (Eng), Webb Simpson, Gary Woodland
1858 Daniel Berger, Ryan Fox (Nzl), David Puig (Spa)
1909 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Sam Bennett, Edoardo Molinari (Ita)
1920 Cameron Davis (Aus), Austin Eckroat, Adrian Meronk (Pol)
1931 Zachary Blair, Aaron Rai (Eng), Davis Thompson
1942 Willie Mack III, Richard Mansell (Eng), Ashton McCulloch (Can)
Starting at hole 10
1145 Brandon Thompson (Eng), Jason Scrivener (Aus), (a) Brendan Valdes
1156 Sam Bairstow (Eng), (a) Santiago De la Fuente (Mex), Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra (Spa)
1207 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Kurt Kitayama, Taylor Moore
1218 Jason Day (Aus), Harris English, Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor)
1229 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler
1240 Wyndham Clark, Nick Dunlap, Brian Harman
1251 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Jackson Suber, Jordan Spieth
1302 Keegan Bradley, Martin Kaymer (German), Shane Lowry (Ireland)
1313 Akshay Bhatia, Eric Cole, Erik van Rooyen (Rsa)
1324 Alexander Noren (Swe), Taylor Pendrith (Can), Brendon Todd
1335 (a) Jackson Buchanan, Brian Campbell, Thomas Detry (Bel)
1346 (a) Gunnar Broin, Maxwell Moldova, Taisei Shimuzu (Jpn)
1357 John Chin, Sung-Hoon Kang (Kor), Riki Kawamoto (Jpn)
1730 Carter Jenkins, Logan McAllister, Michael McGowan
1741 (a) Parker Bell, Frederik Kjettrup (Den), Christopher Petefish
1752 Max Greyserman, Casey Jarvis (Rsa), (a) Omar Morales (Mex)
1803 Corey Conners (Can), Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Stephan Jaeger (Ger)
1814 Sergio Garcia (Spa), Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn), Francesco Molinari (Ita)
1825 Brooks Koepka, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas
1836 Rickie Fowler, Adam Hadwin (Can), Phil Mickelson
1847 Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Min-Woo Lee (Aus), Sahith Theegala
1858 Sung-Jae Im (Kor), Si-Woo Kim (Kor), Matthieu Pavon (Fra)
1909 Nicolas Echavarria (col), Robert Rock (Eng), (a) Neal Shipley
1920 (a) Stewart Hagestad, Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), Mac Meissner
1931 Jim Herman, Bryan Kim, Isaiah Salinda
1942 (a) Colin Prater, Charles Reiter, Carson Schaake