Here are live updates from the 124th United States Open in Pinehurst on Thursday.
11:41 AM ET–Current leader is Matthieu Pavon of France at -4…others in contention are Ludvig Aberg of Sweden and Russell Henley of USA at -3, five-time major champion Brooks Koepka, American Patrick Cantlay, and Italy’s Edoardo Molinari at -2, and nine golfers at -1 (2017 Masters champion Sergio Garcia of Spain, Americans Tony Finau, amateur Neal Shipley, Rickie Fowler, Isaiah Salinda, Willie Mack III and Davis Thompson, England’s Aaron Rai, and South Korea’s Si Woo Kim)…
11:44 AM ET–Awful start for two-time PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas who is at +7…
11:44 AM ET–Pavon has impressive long par putt on the 12th hole to remain at -4…
11:49 AM ET–Finau’s tee shot on the fifth goes into the forest…
11:51 AM ET–Cantlay comes close to the hole on an eagle chance…makes the birdie to get to -3 and one stroke back of Pavon…
11:53 AM ET–Koepka’s five major championships have come at the 2017 and 2018 United States Open, and the 2018, 2019, and 2023 PGA Championship….
11:53 AM ET–Henley bogeys the fifth hole to drop to -2 and drops from second to fourth place, and two strokes back of Pavon…
11:59 AM ET–Neal Shipley, the American amateur from Ohio State, improves to -2…
12:03 PM ET–Koepka bogeys the 15th to drop to -1…
12:06 PM ET–Aberg birdies the fifth hole to improve to -4 and tied with Pavon for the lead…
12:06 PM ET–Finau birdied the fifth hole to improve to -2…
12:12 PM ET–Cantlay has long birdie putt on the seventh hole to improve to -4 and a tie for the lead with Aberg and Pavon…
12:13 PM ET–Henley misses short par putt on the sixth hole and posts a bogey to drop to -1….
12:25 PM ET–Aberg bogeyed the sixth hole to drop out of the lead…fell to -3 and in third place all by himself…leaders are Cantlay and Pavon at -4…
12:26 PM ET–Canadian Corey Conners moves into contention after posting a score of birdie on the 18th hole…improves to -1, in sixth place, and three back of Pavon and Cantlay…
12:28 PM ET–S.H. Kim of South Korea and Italy’s Edoardo Molinari now at -1…along with American Zac Blair, meanwhile Koepka is now at even par…
12:31 PM ET–Morikawa makes a birdie from the bunker on the 17th to improve to +1…
12:32 PM ET–Henley birdies the seventh hole to improve to -2 and two back of Cantlay and Pavon…
12:40 PM ET–Shipley’s chip shot on the 15th hole goes completely over the green…
12:43 PM ET–Finau birdies the seventh and improves to -3 and one back of Cantlay and Pavan…
12:44 PM ET–Leaderboard: 1) Cantlay & Pavon -4, 3) Aberg & Finau -3 5) Henley & Shipley -2, 7) Garcia, Conners, S.H. Kim, Molinari, Salinda, Thompson, Blair, and Mack III -1…
12:44 PM ET–Si Woo Kim bogeys the 15th to drop to even par…
12:50 PM ET–Shipley double bogeys the 15th hole to drop to even par…
12:50 PM ET–Thomas finishes round at +7…
12:51 PM ET–Cantlay birdies the eighth hole to improve to -5…third birdie in the last four holes…one stroke lead on Pavon, two stroke lead on Aberg and Finau, three stroke lead on Henley…
12:51 PM ET–Henley bogeys the eighth hole to drop to -1…
12:54 PM ET–Pavon bogeys the 16th hole to drop to -3…three-way tie for second…there you have Aberg, Pavon and Finau…
1:01 PM ET–Cantlay pars the ninth hole and goes into the clubhouse at -5…
1:13 PM ET–Aberg birdies the ninth hole and goes into the clubhouse at -4…
1:17 PM ET–Finau bogeys the ninth to drop to -2 and three back of Cantlay….
1:17 PM ET–Top four golfers have four different scores under par…1) Cantlay -5, 2) Aberg -4, 3) Pavon -3, 4) Finau -2…
1:20 PM ET–Willie Mack III has long birdie putt on fifth hole…improves to -2…
1:46 PM ET–Mack III bogeyed the sixth hole….drops to -1…
1:47 PM ET–Great start for American Greyson Sigg as he birdied two of the first three holes…
2:04 PM ET–Sigg bogeys the 14th hole to drop to -1…
2:46 PM ET–Four-time major champion Rory McIlroy of Holywood, Northern Ireland has an impressive long chip shot for birdie on the fifth hole to improve to -2 and three strokes back of Cantlay…
4:05 PM ET–Bryson DeChambeau, the 2020 United States Open champion, got himself into contention with an impressive birdie where his golf ball curled into the hole on the ninth hole…it should be noted that DeChambeau started on the back nine…
4:12 PM ET–McIlroy birdies the 10th hole to improve to -3…
4:13 PM ET–Two other golfers have joined Finau and DeChambeau at -2…they are American Jake Knapp and England’s Tyrell Hatton…
4:34 PM ET–Taisei Shimizu of Japan has improved to -2, and will soon be joined by American amateur Gordon Sargent who has an easy birdie putt coming up on the 18th hole…meanwhile, Hatton and Knapp have dropped a stroke and are now at -1…
4:40 PM ET–Sung-hoon Kang of South Korea birdies the fifth hole to improve to -2…
4:46 PM ET–Shimizu bogeys the sixth hole to drop to -1…earlier today Shimizu moved from even to two under par after posting an eagle on the fifth hole…
4:50 PM ET–DeChambeau birdies the third hole and improves to -3…two strokes back of Cantlay…
5:27 PM ET–Canadian MacKenzie Hughes eagles the fifth hole to improve to even par…
5:29 PM ET–Shimizu birdies the ninth hole and returns to -2…
5:34 PM ET–Frankie Capan III of North Oaks, Minnesota birdied the first hole to improve to -2…
5:34 PM ET–Jackson Suber of Tampa, Florida, who qualified only because Jon Rahm withdrew due to a toe injury, birdies the 13th hole to improve to -2…
5:44 PM ET–Tyrell Hatton birdies the fifth to improve to -2…
5:49 PM ET–German Martin Kaymer birdies the 13th hole to improve to -2…Kaymer won the 2010 PGA Championship and 2014 United States Open (the last time the U.S. Open was at Pinehurst)…
5:51 PM–DeChambeau birdies the fifth hole to improve to -4…in second place tie with Aberg and one stroke back of Cantlay…
5:58 PM ET–Key par putt for Hatton on the sixth hole to remain at -2…
6:02 PM ET–McIlroy birdies the 16th hole to improve to -4…
6:10 PM ET–Nick Dunlap birdies a shot on the 16th from the bunker…improves to +1…
6:10 PM ET–Kaymer bogeys the 15th hole to drop to -1…
6:13 PM ET–Frankie Capan III bogeys the third to drop to -1 and Suber bogeys the 14th and 15th to drop to even…
6:31 PM ET–DeChambeau bogeys the seventh to drop to -3…and two back of Cantlay…
6:33 PM ET–McIlroy birdies 18th and now in a tie with Cantlay at -5…
7:05 PM ET–DeChambeau pars 9th hole and finishes at -3…
7:21 PM ET–Akshay Bhatia birdies the 18th hole and finishes round one at -2…
7:25 PM ET–Leaderboard: 1) McIlroy & Cantlay -5, 3) Aberg -4 4) DeChambeau & Pavon -3 6) Finau, Hatton, and Bhatia -2…
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