US Open 2020 In the fearsome field of the Winged Foot
TIger Woods made it difficult to continue adding greats to his 15 majors account. He dispatched the first day at Winged Foot with 73 strokes.
Rahm misread each on the green at hole 4 and had a difficult putt to save par. Step back with the first bogey of the day (-1).
Rahm’s masterful touch on hole 3 to achieve the second birdie of the day. The Spaniard is approaching the top positions.
Great start of Rahm who achieves the birdie in hole 1. The one from Barrika faces this tournament full of morals. A field that adapts perfectly to your game.
Sergio Garca finished the first day with 74 strokes (+4). He was penalized by two double bogeys on holes 10 and 18. You have to suffer to pass the cut.
At 7:27 pm he starts his tour Jon Rahm, sharing game with Phil Mickelson y Paul Casey.
Earlier this week,
@ JustinThomas34
said this was one of his all-time favorite courses.
He backed that up with the lowest round (65) EVER in a #USOpen at Winged Foot.
Magnificent Justin thomas, who crowned a 65-stroke round with a spectacular birdie (-5). The world number 3 has been sensational on the green and raises his price to achieve victory at the US Open.
Patrick Reed ended his tour with a 66 hits (four birdies, an eagle and a double bogey). Serious candidate to win his second ‘Major’.
Special mention deserves the amateur Davis Thompson. He came to lead the tournament alone and ended up delivering a 69-stroke card (-1) after committing three bogeys in the last six holes.
Incredible the beginning of the Spanish amateur Eduard Rousaud on his debut at the US Open. She manages to make the eagle on par 4 of hole 1.
What a way to start your #USOpen career! @ERousaud with an at the first! pic.twitter.com/ltwDafxu2R
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Improves his ‘score’ Sergio Garca after the birdies achieved in the holes 4 and 7. He stands with +3 in the classification with two holes to go to finish the first day.
Patrick Reed overtakes Justin Thomas in the lead after the birdie on hole 15. Spectacular golf being developed by the American, who is looking for his second ‘Major’ after his victory at the 2018 Masters.
Tiger Woods made three birdies over 36 holes at the 2006 US Open at Winged Foot. Today he has made four birdies in his first 11 holes. He presents his candidacy to try to win this ‘Major’ for the fourth time.
The American Patrick Reed adds two consecutive birdies (-3) and presses the leadership of Justin Thomas. Very prestigious players in the top positions of this US Open.
Justin Thomas becomes the new solo leader by challenging the field with his fifth birdie of the da. The American, very accurate with the putt.
Threat Justin thomas Thompson’s leadership. Fourth birdie of the day (hole 10) to reach -3 in the classification. McIlroy makes the first bogey of his round on hole 1.
Sergio Garca closes the first nine holes with bad news: second double bogey of the day (hole 18) and dropping positions in the classification with +4.
The world number 3 also appears to the first positions, Justin thomas. The American made a bogey on hole 3 but has already accumulated three birdies (1, 6 and 9) to reach -2 in the classification.
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1832 through nine for @McIlroyRory. #USOpenpic.twitter.com/9fu30c8Qiv
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The amateur Davis Thompson He is becoming the main protagonist of this first day. Add one more birdie to your card after the one made on the 11th hole. McIlroy He completes the first nine holes with a birdie on 18. The Northern Ireland is also spectacular.
Jordan Spieth has fixed a lousy start (bogey on 1 and double bogey on 2) with three consecutive birdies on holes 4, 5 and 6). It sits next to the field.
Spectacular hole in one you have achieved Patrick Reed in the 7. The third that is achieved in this field by hosting the US Open (1984 Mark McCumber and 2006 Peter Hedblom).
Captain America. Captain Ace!@PReedGolf with the first hole-in-one in the 120th #USOpen. pic.twitter.com/gV5dJZ6OrF
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Three consecutive birdies on holes 6, 7 and 8 allow the American amateur Davis Thompson lead the US Open solo.
Jon Rahm’s two wins this season have come in Muirfield Village y Olympia Fields, the courses where it has been played under more difficult conditions all year. “I have always thought that the US Open is the type of field where I can win. I can do it in any, but this tournament, also, is a mental challenge and I like that,” says Barrika’s.
The conditions of the route allow the triumph of veterans like the American Phil Mickelson, who has a bitter memory of Winged Foot after losing the tournament on the last hole in 2006, and aspires to make up for it by winning his first US Open at the age of 50.
Rahm is part of a group of punchers, headed by Dustin Johnson, leader of the world ranking, which also highlights the also American Bryson Dechambeau, whose power off the tee can be a double-edged sword this week if not combined with absolute precision.
Solid start for @McIlroyRory! #USOpenpic.twitter.com/sT6RrHbEc1
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One of the great contenders for success, Rory McIlroy, has started its journey with two birdies (10 and 13) and leads the tournament alongside American Brandon Wu.
Discouraging start from Sergio Garca. Double bogey on par 3 of hole 10. A sign of what awaits players on this course.
13:56 Webb Simpson, SERGIO GARCA, Jason Day
18:21 Adam Long, EDUARD ROUSAUD, Mike Lorenzo-Vera
18:43 Ryan Palmer, Si Woo Kim, RAFA CABRERA BELLO
19:27 Phil Mickelson, Paul Casey, JON RAHM
20:11 Stephan Jaeger, Lee Hodges, ADRIN OTAEGUI
Sergio Garca reach today the 87 tournaments played, within the category of the so-called majors, so to reach Severiano Ballesteros in this section, although even at the national level he will have Jos Mara Olazbal ahead, who is in 90 and who if he could go to Augusta in November would continue adding .
In the last edition that the US Open visited this design by Albert Tillinghast – modified in 2015 – it was in 2006, and the average hits was 74.99. Specifically, only one hole, the 5 (par 5), was played under par, and in total there were 12 rounds under par that year, and none under 68.
the same Tiger Woods certified the toughness of the course -the west course- by stating: “If we talk about pure difficulty, it is one of the three most difficult in which I have played. Winged Foot, Oakmont and Carnoustie. Those three courses can host important championships without having to do anything to them, and I would say that the one we are in or maybe Oakmont takes the cake, “said El Tigre yesterday.
In any case, during the previous days, the players have not talked about anything other than the field, with an especially dense rough, where it becomes impossible to find – and let alone remove – a ball, and greens as complicated to decipher as a Rubik’s cube.
Jon Rahm: “Campazo. Very nice, very difficult.” #Newspic.twitter.com/TMtdxYvOv5
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Rahm arrives at the best moment of his career and with options to reconquer the world number 1, like Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa. Along with McIlroy and DeChambeau, they are part of the group of favorites. Dustin Johnson, who was just named PGA Tour Player of the Year, is undoubtedly the first sword.
It is not a tournament, it is a scandal.
The US Open begins in @MovistarPluspic.twitter.com/fg14MRyXVl
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Today begins the second big of the season, the US Open, in one of the toughest camps in existence, Winged Foot, outside New York. The tournament will be played without public and five Spaniards attend it: Jon Rahm, Sergio Garca, Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Adrin Otaegui and the amateur Eduard Rousaud.
