US Open golf 2024: first round

Hole-by-hole coverage from the opening day at PinehurstOfficial live leaderboard | Email your thoughts to Scott

As the sun rose, Carter Jenkins, Logan McAllister and Michael McGowan took the first shots of this tournament at the 1st. Meanwhile over on 10, Rico Hoey, Matteo Manassero and Tom McKibbin were starting out at 10. With much discussion regarding the difficulty of Pinehurst No.2 this week, it’s perhaps instructive to note that of the six players mentioned above, only McAllister and McKibben managed par. Jenkins made bogey, Hoey and McGowan doubled, and Manassero began his round with a triple-bogey eight, the result of a putt from the bottom of a swale coming back to his feet. Welcome to the US Open, ladies and gentlemen!

The world number one Scottie Scheffler is the very short-priced to win his first US Open and his sixth PGA Tour event in his last nine starts. He’s already got this year’s Masters Tournament and Players Championship in the bag, and let’s be honest, there’s a fair chance he’d have landed the PGA Championship too, had he not been farcically arrested on the Friday morning, and had the Tour chaplain standing in for his regular caddie on Saturday. The man’s as cool as a long glass of Arnold Palmer on the porch in the summer shade. If he’s not in the mix come Sunday afternoon, it’ll be a surprise.