Crunching the numbers after the first round of the U.S. Open: How tough was Erin Hills? The top six players in the Official World Golf Ranking - Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, Hideki Matsuyama, Jordan Spieth and Henrik Stenson - were a combined 21 over par. Johnson's 75 was his highest score in his last 14 U.S. Open rounds played. He had been inside the top six after each of his previous 12 U.S. Open rounds. Perhaps DJ's struggles shouldn't have been a surprise; this is the sixth straight year in which the defending U.S. Open champion opened over par. Spieth shot 1-over 73, marking the fifth straight major in which he has opened with par or worse. In his last five majors he is a combined 6 over in the first round. In the first rounds of his five previous majors he was 22 under. Spieth needed 32 putts - just one off his most in the first round of a major. Speaking of one off, McIlroy's 78 was just one shot off the worst opening round of his major career. It's the seventh opening round of 74 or worse in a major - and he missed the cut the previous six times. Day's 79 was his worst opening round in a major by three strokes, and one shot off his worst career round in any major (80, 2012 PGA, second round). Rickie Fowler's 7-under 65 tied the lowest first-round score in relation to par in U.S. Open history. The other two instances both came in 1980, when Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf shot 7-under 63s in the first round at Baltusrol. Fowler is only the third player to begin a U.S. Open with a bogey-free 65 or better, joining Tiger Woods in 2000 and McIlroy in 2011. A good omen for Fowler: Those two went on to win by a combined total of 23 strokes. Did Fowler's 65 seemingly come out of nowhere? In his five previous U.S. Open rounds he was 27 over par. Thursday's 65 is his lowest career round in a major. What was the difference? He hit 16 of 18 greens in regulation Thursday. In those five previous Open rounds, his GIR percentage was 56.7. Another player having a career day Thursday was Paul Casey, whose 66 was his lowest career score to par in a major round. Casey's presence on the leaderboard shouldn't come as a surprise, though. He is the only player who finished in the top 10 in each of the previous two majors. He was T-10 at the PGA Championship and sixth at the Masters. Casey's best finish in a major is T-3 at The Open in 2010 at St. Andrews. Tied with Casey for second is Xander Schauffele, the 23-year-old former Long Beach State and San Diego State player. He became the only player in the last 30 years to shoot a bogey-free 66 or better in his U.S. Open debut.(Information compiled by the Golf Channel Research Dept.)
Cantlay becomes the 107 th player to make the Top-10 status in the OWGR since in began in 1986. Guido Migliozzi claimed his second European Tour win of the season with a four shot victory over Darius van Driel in the final of the Belgian Knockout, breaking into the World Top 200 for the first time at World No. 95.
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