DeChambeau followed what his fellow SMU alum, the late Payne Stewart, accomplished 25 years earlier by winning the U.S. Open at Pinehurst. He is looking for his third U.S. Open title. Kim, a Dallas resident, in entering his fourth U.S. Open. His career best finish came in 2023 in Los Angeles (-8).

JJ Spaun upstaged the world's best by grabbing a one-shot lead after the opening day of the US Open, as Scottie Scheffler failed to live up to his status as pre-tournament favourite.

OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler kept coming back to the same answer when asked in different ways how a day that began with optimism at the U.S. Open turned into a 5 1/2-hour slog that left him well off the front page of the leaderboard.

Scottie Scheffler entered the 125th U.S. Open as the presumptive favorite but he struggled in the first round at Oakmont Country Club on Thursday. The world No. 1 made six bogeys and posted 3-over 73,

The winner of three of his last four starts had an uncharacteristically poor Thursday afternoon, but he goes right back out Friday morning.

After dominating the 2024 season, Scottie Scheffler got off to a slow start relative to expectations in 2025. A ravioli-making incident around Christmas cost him a few months, and he didn't pick up his first win of the year until May, watching as Rory McIlroy surged to three wins and the career grand slam to become the talk of the golf world.

Scottie Scheffler is known for his stoicism and remaining focused, both on and off the course. But that was apparently not always the case.

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