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Connor Syme proudly heads home from Winged Foot a little battered and bruised but already eagerly looking forward to many more U.S. Open appearances in his career. Syme was headed south to New York City and a return flight to the UK after posting a pair of five-over par 75s for a 10-over par total and falling shy by some three shots in playing all four rounds in a maiden US major. The 25-year Drumoig golfer ended Thursday’s opener at five-over par with still a hole to play when USGA officials called ...

A lost ball in the rough and a ball stuck up a tree and both leading to double-bogeys. It’s the sort of story to be heard in any clubhouse following a Saturday morning medal round. Though in this case it was just two holes in a whole golf bag full of ups-and-downs for four-time major winning Jordan Spieth in posting a three-over par 73 on the opening day of the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. Spieth had bogeyed the first but then lost a ball down the right side of the second but without the aid of spectators, ...

So much for talk of a ‘Massacre 3’ at this year’s U.S. Open at Winged Foot. World No. 3 Justin Thomas first round five-under par 65 is the lowest round ever in a U.S. Open at the famed Long Island club. And as the aftenoon half of the first round draw took to the course there was another seven players under par on day one of the 120th staging of the U.S. Open. Legendary amateur Bobby Jones held the record of a three-under par in the 1929 U.S. Open and the first hosting at Winged Foot. Fellow ...

Graeme McDowell found himself introduced on the first tee as the 2010 U.S. Open winner but then 14 years on it proved a real roller-coaster return to Winged Foot for the Irishman in posting a six-over par 76. McDowell, and among some 15 to have teed-up in the 2006 U.S. Open, produced a round that was five shots more than his 71 on day one of the 14-years ago at Winged Foot. He was virtually playing catch-up in doubling the fourth hole and while he got back to one-over at the turn, McDowell then dropped ...

Rory McIlroy muscled his way straight into contention with a 67 but again it was a round that could have ‘been’ on day one of the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. McIlroy was in the opulent clubhouse at lunch two shots behind fellow PGA champion, Justin Thomas who grabbed six birdies in a five-under par 65 in the cool morning and benign conditions on New York’s Long Island. Patrick Reed, and with only a second hole-in-one in his career, posted a 66 to be in second place at four-under par. McIlroy’s ...

Robert MacIntyre had the joy of raising $10,500 for his former university in hurricane hit Louisiana but it was the damage of a four-over par 74 that really hurt the Scot on day one of his first U.S.Open at Winged Foot. MacIntyre managed three $US 3,500 apiece birdies for McNeese University but it was the sting of five bogeys and an early round double-bogey that dented the Oban golfer’s Long Island showing. There was no splitting MacIntyre and fellow Scot and former amateur playing partner Sandy ...

One of the first things I did after Geoff Ogilvy captured the 2006 U.S. Open was to sprint down to the Winged Foot merchandise tent and purchase a handfull of commemorative 18th hole flags. In the weeks following, Geoff very kindly signed the flags and in returning home to Australia later that year I presented three of them to good friends, handed one to the local professional at Bathurst Golf Club and I still have two in my possession. Seven years later, I felt so proud in getting to shake Adam ...