The 2024 U.S. Open is being performed at North Carolina’s Pinehurst No. 2, the place the world’s finest will compete to take house the third of golf’s 4 majors held this yr. Scottie Scheffler, winner of the 2024 Masters Event, and Xander Schauffele, winner of the 2024 PGA Championship, opened play because the favorites on ESPN BET, however it’s Rory McIlroy who enters the second spherical as the brand new favourite after tying Patrick Cantlay for the lead by capturing 65 within the first spherical.
Latest U.S. Open winners Wyndham Clark, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka will look so as to add to their trophy instances. Ought to Clark win, he’ll be the primary back-to-back winner of the U.S. Open since Koepka in 2017 and 2018. McIlroy will try and win the trophy for the primary time since 2011, whereas 2021 champ John Rahm withdrew on Tuesday because of a foot infection.
Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland are among the many different favorites seeking to safe their first U.S. Open trophy.
The final time the U.S. Open was held at Pinehurst, in 2014, it was received by Martin Kaymer, who completed the primary day of this yr’s match tied for sixteenth at 70.
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