SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. \u2013 The USGA is already having some fun at Shinnecock.<\/p>\n
The first- and second-round tee times were released on Tuesday morning, and on the tee sheet are several notable groupings, many of which have particular themes to them.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the best:<\/p>\n
6:57 a.m. ET (10) \u2013 Peter Uihlein, a-Eric Lee, Sam Stevens
Theme: Oklahoma State Cowboys.<\/p>\n
7:19 a.m. ET (1) \u2013 Padraig Harrington, a-Miles Russell, Cameron Smith
Theme: Oldest (Harrington, 54) and youngest (Russell, 17) competitors in field.<\/p>\n
7:30 a.m. ET (1) \u2013 Brooks Koepka, Cameron Young, Chris Gotterup
Theme: New York, New York! Young and Gotterup are Met area products while Koepka has won two majors on Long Island.<\/p>\n
7:30 a.m. ET (10) \u2013 Sungjae Im, Lucas Herbert, Kristoffer Reitan
Theme: All three played their first U.S. Opens at Shinnecock in 2018.<\/p>\n
7:41 a.m. ET (1) \u2013 Daniel Berger, Keegan Bradley, Rickie Fowler
Theme: Former PGA Tour rookies of the year.<\/p>\n
8:14 a.m. ET (1) \u2013 a-Mason Howell, Scottie Scheffler, J.J. Spaun
Theme: Traditional group of the reigning U.S. Amateur champion, Open champion and U.S. Open champion.<\/p>\n
8:14 a.m. ET (10) \u2013 Max Greyserman, Brian Harman, Jacob Bridgeman
Theme: The man group!<\/p>\n
8:25 a.m. ET (1) \u2013 Sahith Theegala, a-Jackson Koivun, Michael Kim
Theme: Former Haskins Award winners.<\/p>\n
12:41 p.m. ET (10) \u2013 Adrien Saddier, Ugo Coussaud, Jackson Van Paris
Theme: Vive la France! Paris, from Pinehurst, is French in name only.<\/p>\n
1:03 p.m. ET (10) \u2013 Pierceson Coody, Zac Blair, Kevin Roy
Theme: All three players have had relatives compete in a U.S. Open. No, Roy is not the son of the Hall of Fame NHL goalie Patrick Roy.<\/p>\n
1:25 p.m. ET (10) \u2013 Bryson DeChambeau, Viktor Hovland, Matt Fitzpatrick
Theme: Former U.S. Amateur champions.<\/p>\n
1:36 p.m. ET (10) \u2013 Dustin Johnson, Wyndham Clark, Gary Woodland
Theme: Similar to previous group, just U.S. Open.<\/p>\n
2:09 p.m. ET (10) \u2013 Justin Rose, Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm
Theme: Another all-U.S. Open champion group.<\/p>\n
2:20 p.m. ET (10) \u2013 Ben Kohles, Johnny Keefer, Matt McCarty
Theme: Former or current Korn Ferry Tour Nos. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. \u2013 The USGA is already having some fun at Shinnecock. The first- and second-round tee times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-740675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}