{"id":45234,"date":"2018-06-14T16:01:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/14\/us-open-2018-first-round-live\/"},"modified":"2018-06-14T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:01:24","slug":"us-open-2018-first-round-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=45234","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2018: first round \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the opening round at Shinnecock HillsOfficial US Open leaderboard | Sign up for The RecapAnd you can email Scott with your thoughts 2.58pm BST A birdie in this morning\u2019s marquee group! Rory McIlroy is the first to put a red number on his card, knocking his second at 15 to 15 feet, then rolling in one of the straighter putts he\u2019ll have today. He moves back to +5. Spieth and Mickelson par, making that this group\u2019s first bogey-free hole of the day. Onwards and upwards! And at the top of the leader board, joining Charley Hoffman at -2, is Matt Kuchar, who follows his opening hole birdie with a second at 5. Three top ten finishes in the majors last year for the popular Floridian, including that runner-up slot at Birkdale. Could this be the time, and the set-up, for the steady, dependable, level-headed Kuch? 2.51pm BST It\u2019s not as though Gregory is alone in his pain. The USGA wanted tough, after the low scoring at Erin Hills last year &#8230; and they\u2019ve got it! We already know about the travails of Phil, Jordan and Rory, so here are some other big names out there struggling: Rickie Fowler (+2 after 5*), Bubba Watson (+3, 6), Jason Day (+3, 6), Danny Willett (+3, 6), Charl Schwartzel (+3, 6*), Marc Leishman (+3, 5*), Louis Oosthuizen (+4, 7). It\u2019s not quite carnage yet, but it\u2019s in danger of getting very messy. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2018\/jun\/14\/us-open-2018-first-round-live\" target=\"_blank\">US Open 2018: first round \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the opening round at Shinnecock HillsOfficial US Open leaderboard | Sign up for The RecapAnd you can email Scott with your thoughts 2.58pm BST A birdie in this morning\u2019s marquee group! Rory McIlroy is the first to put a red number on his card, knocking his second at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}