Live updates from Bethpage Black, the year’s second majorOfficial site leaderboard: latest standings from round oneAnd feel free to email scott.murray@theguardian.com 2.57pm BST Some more big names over par and struggling. Justin Rose has bogeyed 10 and 13; he’s +2. Patrick Reed is alongside him having bogeyed 10 and 15. Rickie Fowler momentarily bounced back from his double-bogey start with birdie at 14, but he’s immediately handed the shot back at 15 and stays at +2. Bubba Watson has bogeyed 14 and 15; he’s +2. So is Henrik Stenson, who has bogeyed 13 and 17. Jason Dufner is now +3 through 8. And Lee Westwood, that elusive first major looking ever more the pipe dream, has bogeyed four of his last five holes; factor in a birdie at 4, and he’s +3 through 6. 2.51pm BST Things Can Always Change Quickly In Golf II. Chez Reavie returns to the group at -2 with birdie at 4. But he’s not a co-leader, because Matt Wallace has made it three birdies in his first four holes. The par-five 4th is perhaps the least ferocious hole on the course, a decent chance for birdie. Wallace makes his in textbook fashion, a couple of claps down the middle, followed by a wedge to six feet and in. The 29-year-old Londoner leads the PGA! JB Holmes meanwhile doubles 5 and clatters back down to level par.-3: Wallace (4)-2: Reavie (7), Koepka (5*) Continue reading…
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