US Open: Rory McILroy makes a cup as title champion Dechambeau bows to Oakmont | We open

The clubs were thrown away but the towel was not. Rory McILroy fought the perfidual configuration of Oakmont and his own frustrations to survive for the weekend at 125^th We open. While McILroy clung, the high -level outings of Pennsylvania included defending champion Bryson Dechambeau, Tommy Fleetwood, Dustin Johnson, Joaquin Niemann, Justin Thomas and Shane Lowry. By playing how Oakmont can play with the mind, Lowry obtained a penalty at a time after raising his ball on the 14th^th Green while forgetting to mark it. The Irishman could only laugh and, to be fair, did it.

McILroy’s day started with two double bogeys inside three holes. By the 12th^thThe Masters champion threw his iron 30 meters along the angry fairway to a loose shot. Five holes later, McILroy broke a tee marker after having cracked him with his three woods. However, among this, there was an admirable fighting spirit; McILroy pulled an approach drawn from less than 4 feet from 18^th Hole, a birdie ensuring a 72 for a six -sided aggregate. McILroy last four, played in two sous, were crucial. The crazy nature of this American open is such that McILroy will believe that he has a grinth of victory. Only three players – Sam Burns, JJ Spaun and Viktor Hovland – are under peer. Burns leads the other two by one at least three.

Welcome to Grindsville, Pennsylvania. Any standing golfer was doing perfectly. They evaluated four foot putts as if they were in the Gaokao exam. The smell of salts could just as well have replaced energy drinks in the locker room. George Duangmanee pulled 86, 89 in his beginnings in the United States. The poor guy did not sort a single hole in the middle of a chain of non-menstable. If watching elite golfers being reduced to trembling wrecks is your thing, this major is an essential vision.

Dechambeau’s departure at 10 is still a shock. The Californian added a 77 to 73 Thursday. Thomas with four blows of 22 feet, the low point in the consecutive cycles of 76. Johnson, who won here in 2016, continues his shift to early retirement.

Denny McCarthy marked Oakmont’s half hours and a punch in the face “. The steam was almost visible from Jon Rahm’s ears when he assessed his 75. “I’m too bored and too crazy at the moment to think about a perspective,” said Rahm. “I am very frustrated. Very few golf cycles, I played in my life where I think I hit good putts and they did not sniff the hole, so it’s frustrating.” The question of knowing if Rahm thought that spindles were unfair for others to think. At four years old, there remains a competitor.

Scottie Scheffler equaled Rahm’s aggregate. “Gosh, Dang It” Braillé Scheffler after a capricious road, which is so close that it will never arrive at a tirade charged with explanive. “I fought very hard,” said Scheffler. “It’s difficult. Scheffler was still on the training beach three hours after walking from the final green.

In this macabre backdrop, the Burns Friday performance was exceptional. Burns converted from 20 feet at 9^thhis last, for a five sous by 65. Three under the peer claimed the head of the clubhouse; Burns could sit and watch the rest suffer. “The golf course is really too difficult to try to understand what is a good score and what is not,” said Burns. “You have just pulled by shooting and trying to play each hole as best you can. If you try to be too perfect to put it, it can drive you crazy, then I try to read it really, put a good roll, focus on speed and hope for the best. I tried to play too perfect and try to force it a little. little.”

Hovland hides. The Norwegian found himself precisely where you prefer not to be on this route, 80 feet from the hole on the final green. Hovland calmly two shots, his 68 signifying an under peer halfway. During this year Ryder Cup, the return of Hovland in shape is excellent news for Europe and their captain Luke Donald.

“I have just been in a very nice mental state this week,” said Hovland. “My two rounds were from top to bottom. I have the impression of a few times if it had happened during another tournament, for example, I could potentially have lost my head there a little. But I felt like I kept things together.” Indeed, Hovland played his level of fence in level after a double bogey on his 11^th.

Brooks Koepka has reached three times under the nine rear, its front half. Koepka a bogey three succession around the turn before dropping other shots at 4^th8^th and 9^th For a 74. Two on per by could frustrate Koepka given his departure in the second round, but he is firmly in the mixture.

Koepka is undoubtedly the most fascinating actor of this show; A unique major specialist, he has produced little -favorable results since his tour of the US PGA 2023 championship. Koepka missed the cup at the same time during this event and masters this year. At Quail Hollow last month, Kopeka was heckled on her decision to accept tens of millions to perform on the Liv. Whether this is this viral moment, a heart to heart with his coach entirely speaking Pete Cowen or simply ironing technical defects, Koepka suddenly looks a threat. Oakmont is unlikely to disconcert it. He has already done that exactly that to countless others.