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Play to resume at 09:05 ET after two-hour delay<\/p>\n
Good news! \u201cRound 1 of the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills will resume at 9:05 a.m. ET.\u201d So says the official tweet. That\u2019s just over 15 minutes away.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.51 EDT<\/p>\n Weather delay in the golf but they\u2019re playing at the Oval. Should be the other way round surely?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n While we wait, have a read of this Shinnecock scene setter from Bryan Armen Graham.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Official update: There\u2019ll be another update shortly. That will tell us when the next update is. Basically, the USGA are posting updates every 15 minutes to tell us another update is 15 minutes away. Nothing they can do really. At least we\u2019re being informed.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Padraig Harrington says: \u201cI just want to go back to bed.\u201d The three-time major winner, now 54, needs to get those joints loosened up these days so isn\u2019t thrilled about the prospect of having to go through a second warm-up \u2026 whenever that is.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.19 EDT<\/p>\n Rickie Fowler is one of the morning starters waiting for the skies to clear. He\u2019s just given a shrug-laden interview. \u201cKind of just sit and wait. There\u2019s nothing we can do about what we can and can\u2019t see out there. I wasn\u2019t expecting some low-hanging clouds like this, so sit and wait.<\/p>\n \u201cGood to see some of the shots this morning, roughly how the golf course is playing. And yeah, kind of just wait. I know we\u2019re supposed to have wind and gusts that are supposed to pick up as the day goes on. And yeah, hopefully get it moving forward out there.\u201d<\/p>\n Fowler was runner-up in the US Open<\/a> at Pinehurst in 2014 while in 2023 at Los Angeles Country Club he started out with a remarkable 62, the joint-lowest score in the history of men\u2019s majors.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Exactly an hour since play was suspended. Still looks pretty foggy.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Official US Open<\/a> weather update: \u201cRound 1 remains suspended. Next update: 8:00am. ET.\u201d That\u2019s 1pm UK so we\u2019ll know more in around five minutes. Players currently in the practice areas, working on some chipping and putting.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The very early starters did get a couple of holes in at least. No-one is under par though with the eight-way tie for the lead on evens including Jackson Suber and amateur Ethan Fang. Last June, American Fang won the 130th Amateur Championship at Royal St George\u2019s. Both have played just a single hole. Fellow Americans James Nicholas and Caleb Surratt occupy the top two slots on the leaderboard after both managed to par the first two holes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Let\u2019s go! Oh, maybe not. The weather on Long Island isn\u2019t behaving and play is currently suspended. Players were taken off at 12.05pm UK time due to fog.<\/p>\n The official line is that we\u2019ll get another update in just under 10 minutes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Preamble<\/p>\n What a time to be a New Yorker.<\/p>\n The Knicks have just won their first NBA championship since 1973, there\u2019s a World Cup in town and one of its most famous golf courses is staging this week\u2019s US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shinnecock Hills, in the Hamptons don\u2019t you know, is the only US Open venue to host the tournament in three different centuries. And while there\u2019s only one road in and out for those making the trip to Long Island, the traffic chaos just adds to the theme of the week: don\u2019t expect anything to come easy.<\/p>\n In the four US Opens staged since 1986 only three men have emerged from the wreckage with scorecards totting up to an under-par total. Shinnecock is hard, brutal at times, and a windy forecast for this links-style, exposed piece of property \u2013 particularly in today\u2019s first round \u2013 could see scores rocket. Not that it\u2019s unusual.<\/p>\n In 2018, none of the last 45 players to tee off in round three broke the par of 70, while in 2004 the final-round scoring average ballooned to a mighty 78.7 with the par-3 7th needing to be watered between groups with conditions bordering on the impossible.<\/p>\n As usual, there\u2019s a plethora of storylines waiting to be written. Will Scottie Scheffler become just the seventh player to complete the Grand Slam (a first US Open would complete his set)? Can Rory McIlroy add a seventh major, a record for any European player? And is this the week when Tommy Fleetwood or Tyrrell Hatton \u2013 second and sixth respectively at Shinnecock in 2018 \u2013 win a first major title?<\/p>\n Let\u2019s find out!<\/p>\n